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Guyana

Written in: Grade 4 | Year: 2009

Hello everyone. You will discover a land with multiple races of people,and beautiful landscapes.

Guyana, meaning land of many waters was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498. It was inhabited by Arawaks and Carib tribes of the Amerindians. With only two hundred and fifteen thousand square kilometers, it is the third smallest country in South America. In 1831, the three separate colonies became a single British colony, known as British Guyana. When slavery ended in 1834, indentured laborers were brought from Portugal, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Malta, China, and India to work on the sugar plantations.

Today the motto of Guyana is "one people, one nation, one destiny." The population of Guyana is eight hundred and sixty thousand people. Most of whom live along the fertile Atlantic coast. Guyana was once ruled by the British and achieved independence in 1966. The main language is English along with Creole, which is broken English that is mixture English, African, and Indian grammar.

Guyana can be divided into four natural regions. First a narrow and fertile plains along the Atlantic coast where most of the population lives and many farms can be found. The white sand belt, inland hilly clay and sand regions that are rich in mineral deposits such as gold, diamonds, and bauxite. Dense rainforest across the middle of the country, grassy, flat savannah in the south where livestock is reared. And finally the larger interior highlands consisting of mountains, dense rich, rainforest and exotic wild animals.

One day soon we may look at plants in the rainforest for our medicine and you may have a part of Guyana without even going there.