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Travel French GuianaThe main international airport of French Guiana is Cayenne-Rochambeau Airport, located in the commune of Matoury, a southern suburb of Cayenne. There are three daily flights to Paris (Orly), served by Air France, Air Caraïbes and Corsairfly. The flight time from Cayenne to Paris is 8 hours and 25 minutes and from Paris to Cayenne it is 9 hours and 10 minutes. There are also flights to Fort-de-France, Pointe-à-Pitre, Port-au-Prince, Miami and Belem. The main port of French Guiana is the Port of Degrad des Cannes, located on the estuary of the river Mahury, in the commune of Remire-Montjoly, a south-eastern suburb of Cayenne. Almost all imports of French Guiana and exports pass through the Port of Degrad des Cannes. Built in 1969, replacing the old port of Cayenne, which was congested and could not cope with modern traffic. A paved highway from Regina to Saint-Georges de l'Oyapock (city of the Brazilian border) was opened in 2004, completing the road from Cayenne to the Brazilian border. It is now possible to drive on a fully paved road from Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni on the Surinamese border to Saint-Georges de l'Oyapock, on the border of Brazil. Under an international treaty between France and Brazil signed in July 2005, a bridge over the river Oyapock (which marks the border with Brazil) is currently under construction and is scheduled to open in 2010. This bridge will be the first land crossing ever opened between France and Brazil, and indeed between French Guiana and the rest of the world (there is no bridge across the river Oyapock, and no bridge crossing the Maroni River brand the border with Suriname - there is a ferry crossing to Albina, Suriname.). When opening the bridge, you can drive uninterrupted from Cayenne to Macapá, capital of Amapá in Brazil |
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About French Guiana
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