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Has anybody else heard of Venezuela being referred to as: "Spanish Guiana"?
or Brasil being: "Portuguese Guiana"?
Source: The British Commonwealth Secretariat - On the History of Guyana. CaribDigita 23:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
No, but either way, that isn't the usage of "Guiana/Guyana" described in the article, so it sure as heck isn't a Venezuela geo stub. -- YixilTesiphon 02:10, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I looked up this article for information about "Spanish Guiana" after hearing about the new Flag of Venezuela, which adds a eighth star for the former Spanish colonial province of Guayana. According to that article, it seems to be "roughly coterminous with the present" Bolívar State, and also formerly included parts of modern Guyana west of the Essequibo River, although it is also listed as one of the administrative regions of Venezuela including also the states of Amazonas and Delta Amacuro, in other words, all of Venezuela southwest of the Orinoco. It would also presumably include those disputed parts of Guyana west of the Essequibo.
As for "Portuguese Guiana", obviously this is not all of Brazil, but from what I can gather applies to the part north of the Amazon and east of the Rio Negro.
According to the article, "The term The Guianas is often used as a collective name for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana", which I agree with, but according to Conceptualisation and History of the Guianas:
I do not know what the exact boundaries of the Shield are, so I suppose that the area of Guiana (or the Guaiana Shield) may differ from that of the Guianas Coast, which is delineated by the rivers. -- Nike 11:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
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Geologically (which seems to be the main thrust of this article), the Guiana Shield or Craton extends far into Brazil, to the margin of the rift valley in which the Amazon flows. The craton includes more territory within Brazil than in Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana combined; it also includes most of Venezuela south and east of the Orinoco. Rocks of east-central Colombia are also Precambrian and should probably be thought of as part of the Guiana Craton. Just FYI. Cheers-- Geologyguy 23:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
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Also just FYI, I am Brazilian and have never heard the expression "Portuguese Guiana" (or "Spanish" for that matter). It should be pointed that such presumed areas have never existed as political entities, which British and Dutch Guiana have been, and French Guiana still is. Venezuelans often mention the region roughly corresponding to their Bolívar state as "Guayana" and there is an important city there called Ciudad Guayana, but there is nothing corresponding to a "Spanish Guiana." It seems the British Commonwealth Secretariat has made a blunder...
As Nike pointed out, both Venezuela and Brazil extend to other regions as well, and in the case of Brazil the Guiana Shield is just a very small part of this vast country with many different formations, landscapes and climates. Moreover, the Shield is located far away from both countries' most populated and economically important regions (in the case of Brazil, thousands of kilometres or miles away). -- UrsoBR ( talk) 14:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Needless to say ... 66.92.53.49 00:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
This article should be separated into two articles. One called " Guiana Shield", that deals with the geological shield and the other one " Guiana Highlands", that deals with the visible highlands. -- Jeroenvrp ( talk) 14:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The article states that the Shield "has 1400 vertebrate species and 1680 bird species." This is already marked with a "citation needed" tag, but I would suggest this to be removed altogether until that information can be verified or replaced with other data, because it is obviously incorrect: birds are vertebrates, but so are mammals, reptiles, fish, etc., so the number of bird species cannot be greater than the number of vertebrate species. -- UrsoBR ( talk) 14:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
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Has anybody else heard of Venezuela being referred to as: "Spanish Guiana"?
or Brasil being: "Portuguese Guiana"?
Source: The British Commonwealth Secretariat - On the History of Guyana. CaribDigita 23:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
No, but either way, that isn't the usage of "Guiana/Guyana" described in the article, so it sure as heck isn't a Venezuela geo stub. -- YixilTesiphon 02:10, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I looked up this article for information about "Spanish Guiana" after hearing about the new Flag of Venezuela, which adds a eighth star for the former Spanish colonial province of Guayana. According to that article, it seems to be "roughly coterminous with the present" Bolívar State, and also formerly included parts of modern Guyana west of the Essequibo River, although it is also listed as one of the administrative regions of Venezuela including also the states of Amazonas and Delta Amacuro, in other words, all of Venezuela southwest of the Orinoco. It would also presumably include those disputed parts of Guyana west of the Essequibo.
As for "Portuguese Guiana", obviously this is not all of Brazil, but from what I can gather applies to the part north of the Amazon and east of the Rio Negro.
According to the article, "The term The Guianas is often used as a collective name for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana", which I agree with, but according to Conceptualisation and History of the Guianas:
I do not know what the exact boundaries of the Shield are, so I suppose that the area of Guiana (or the Guaiana Shield) may differ from that of the Guianas Coast, which is delineated by the rivers. -- Nike 11:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
champions league
Geologically (which seems to be the main thrust of this article), the Guiana Shield or Craton extends far into Brazil, to the margin of the rift valley in which the Amazon flows. The craton includes more territory within Brazil than in Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana combined; it also includes most of Venezuela south and east of the Orinoco. Rocks of east-central Colombia are also Precambrian and should probably be thought of as part of the Guiana Craton. Just FYI. Cheers-- Geologyguy 23:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
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Also just FYI, I am Brazilian and have never heard the expression "Portuguese Guiana" (or "Spanish" for that matter). It should be pointed that such presumed areas have never existed as political entities, which British and Dutch Guiana have been, and French Guiana still is. Venezuelans often mention the region roughly corresponding to their Bolívar state as "Guayana" and there is an important city there called Ciudad Guayana, but there is nothing corresponding to a "Spanish Guiana." It seems the British Commonwealth Secretariat has made a blunder...
As Nike pointed out, both Venezuela and Brazil extend to other regions as well, and in the case of Brazil the Guiana Shield is just a very small part of this vast country with many different formations, landscapes and climates. Moreover, the Shield is located far away from both countries' most populated and economically important regions (in the case of Brazil, thousands of kilometres or miles away). -- UrsoBR ( talk) 14:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Needless to say ... 66.92.53.49 00:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
This article should be separated into two articles. One called " Guiana Shield", that deals with the geological shield and the other one " Guiana Highlands", that deals with the visible highlands. -- Jeroenvrp ( talk) 14:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The article states that the Shield "has 1400 vertebrate species and 1680 bird species." This is already marked with a "citation needed" tag, but I would suggest this to be removed altogether until that information can be verified or replaced with other data, because it is obviously incorrect: birds are vertebrates, but so are mammals, reptiles, fish, etc., so the number of bird species cannot be greater than the number of vertebrate species. -- UrsoBR ( talk) 14:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)