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 Latin America and the Caribbean -Contacts-

 Guyana

Basic Data*

Area: 214 970 km²
Capital: Georgetown
Language(s): English (official), Amerindian dialects Hindi, Urdu.
Total population: 0.8 (millions 2004)
Urban population: 75.5 (% of total)
Total estimated population 2015: 0.7 (millions)
Currency: Guyana dollar
GDP Per Capita: 4.439 (US$, 2004)
Grow rate of population: 0.1 (%/annum, 2004-2015)
Religion(s): Hindu (34%), Protestant (18%), Islam (9%), Roman Catholic (18%), Anglican (16%)
Population with sustainable access to an improved water source: 83 (%, annum 2004)
Population with sustainable access to improved sanitation: 70 (%, annum 2004)
Borders: Venezuela to the west, Suriname to the east, Brazil to the south and southwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and northeast

Record of disasters:
http://www.em-dat.net/disasters/Visualisation/profiles/natural-table-emdat.php?country=Guyana

Technological disasters:
http://www.em-dat.net/disasters/Visualisation/profiles/tech-table-emdat.php?country=Guyana

 

Comisión de Defensa Civil
Camp Ayan, Thomas Lands
Georgetown, Guyana
Tel: (592 2) 61-114, 61-117
Fax.: (592 2) 61-027
E-mail: cdc@sdnp.org.gy


Secretaría Presidencial
Cliffengen Road & New Garden St. Georgetown
Tel: (592-2) 57-051
Fax: (592-2) 63-395


Cruz Roja de Guyana
Eve Leary Georgetown, Guyana
Apdo. 10524 Georgetown
Tel: (592-2) 65-174 / 60-384
Fax: (592-2) 77-099 / 67-852
E-mail: guyanaredcross@yahoo.com
Web Site. http://www.sdnp.org.gy/redcross/


Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)
42 Brickdam & Boyle Place.
Stabroek, Apdo. 10960
Georgetown,Guyana
Tel: (592-2) 64-040
Fax: (592-2) 62-942
E-mail: richard.olver@undp.org
Web Site: http://www.undp.org.gy/


Agencia para la Protección Ambiental (EPA)
University Of Guyana Campus, Turkeyen
Greater Georgetown, Guyana, South America
Tel: (592) 222-5783, 222-4224, 222-5784, 222-6703
Fax: (592) 222-2442
E-mail: epa@epaguyana.org
Web Site: http://www.epaguyana.org/


Ministerio de Salud
Brickdam, Georgetown
Tel: (592) 226 2348


Centro para los Estudios de la Diversidad Biológica
Tel: 222-2329 / 4921
Fax: 222-4921
E-mail: csbd@sdnp.org
Web Site: http://www.sdnp.org.gy/csbd/


Centro Internacional de Iwokrama para la Conservación y el Desarrollo
77 High Street, Kingston, Georgetown
Guyana, South America
Web Site: http://www.iwokrama.org/

 

 
* Source: Statistics and indicators are provided by the International Center for Scientific Research (CIRS); the United Nations Statistics Division from the World Statistics Pocketbook, Statistical Yearbook and Report, except capital cities, languages and illiteracy rate; the Human Development Report 2006; and the Data Base of Stadistics and Social Indicators (BADEINSO) of ECLAC.

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