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'''Куру''' ({{lang-fr|Kourou}}) е град, център на [[Куру (община)|едноименен]] кантон във [[Френска Гвиана]], [[Отвъдморски територии|отвъдморски департамент]] на [[Франция]] разположен в [[Южна Америка]].

 

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==Geography==

[[Image:Kourou_beach.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Kourou's long, sandy beach.]]

Some 60 km northwest of the capital [[Cayenne]] at the mouth of the [[Kourou river]] on the [[Atlantic]] coast, it is ringed by four hills: Carapa, Pariacabo, Café and Lombard, with the Singes and Condamine mountains not far behind. There are three lakes within the city limits: Lake Bois Diable (where one can take lessons in jetski and other aquatic sports), Lake Marie-Claire (the smallest and calmest), and Lake Bois Chaudat (the biggest of the three; also open to sport lovers, especially canoers and kayakers). Long white sand beaches and some rocky outcrops line its ocean coast, the riverbank and all points inland consisting mostly of mangrove and dense tropical rainforest.

 

It had a fast-growing population of 19,107 inhabitants at the 1999 census. Its inhabitants can be classified into three ethnic groups of roughly equal size:

==History==

===Before the Europeans===

Not much is known of the pre-colonial era. The area was mostly populated by [[Galibi|Kalina, or Galibi]] before the arrival of the French in the late 17th century.

 

 

===Early Colonization===

[[Vicente Yanez Pinzon]] sailed along most of the north coast of South America and passed by the current location of Kourou in 1500.

 

 

===The Expedition===

[[Image:Kourou_street.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The ''Bourg''.]]

The mission at Kourou being abandoned by the Jesuits, the engineers Mentelle and Tugny designed the layout of the future town. This resulted in the neighborhood called the ''Bourg'', around the Church of Saint Catherine and next to the port on the river.

 

===The Prisons===

[[Image:Tour_dreyfus_kourou.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The Dreyfus Tower on the ''Pointe des Roches''.]]

Kourou contained one of the many prisons in Guiana. It was dedicated mostly to agriculture.

 

 

===The CSG and the French Foreign Legion Arrive===

In 1965 the ''[[Centre Spatial Guyanais]]'' (Guiana Space Centre) was founded a little behind the town, and the urbanisation of Kourou began in earnest. The population of the town grew rapidly, and has not showed any signs of slowing since.

 

 

==Economy==

Kourou's economy is largely dominated by the CSG, from which the European [[Ariane|Ariane rockets]] are launched, as will the Russian [[Soyuz programme|Soyuz]] and the Italian [[Vega (launcher)|Vega]] in a few years.

 

==Tourism==

* The ''[[Centre Spatial Guyanais]] (CSG)'' gets many visitors all year round.

* The ''Musée de l'Espace'' is a museum devoted to space and space exploration.

 

[[Категория:Френска Гвиана]]

 

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