Trois-Palétuviers

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Trois-Palétuviers (English: three mangroves) is a Palikur Amerindian village on the Oyapock River in French Guiana, France near the border with Brazil.{{cite web|url=http://www.ariss-f.org/ariss-973-douzieme-contact-radioamateur-pour-thomas-pesquet/ |title=ARISS 973 : Douzième contact radioamateur pour Thomas PESQUET [MAJ]|website=Amateur Radio on the International Space Station|date=22 March 2017 |access-date=27 March 2021|language=fr}}

Overview

Trois-Palétuviers was established in 1960.{{sfn|Ogeron|Odonne|2018|p=2}} The Palikur used to live in circular communal houses with palm leaf roofs{{sfn|Ogeron|Odonne|2018|p=4}} in semi-permanent villages.{{sfn|Ogeron|Odonne|2018|p=2}} They were encouraged to live in permanent villages, and settled in one story prefabricated concrete houses.{{sfn|Ogeron|Odonne|2018|p=4}}

Trois-Palétuviers has a school{{cite web|url=https://circo-matoury-1.eta.ac-guyane.fr/Le-mot-du-directeur.html |title=Groupe scolaire Les Trois Palétuviers|website=Académie de la Guyane|access-date=27 March 2021|language=fr}} which is home to Cavaliers des Trois Palétuviers, a chess club who were invited to demonstrate their talents in Brussels in 2013.{{cite news|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guyane/2013/04/02/de-trois-paletuviers-bruxelles-24051.html |title=De Trois Palétuviers à Bruxelles|website=France TV Info|access-date=27 March 2021|language=fr}} In 2017, there was a malaria outbreak in the region,{{cite journal|author=Emilie Mosner|year=2020|title=Resurgence risk for malaria, and the characterization of a recent outbreak in an Amazonian border area between French Guiana and Brazil|journal=BMC Infectious Diseases |volume=20|issue=1|page=373|url= |doi=10.1186/s12879-020-05086-4|pmid=32456698|pmc=7249302 |doi-access=free }} and the Pasteur Institute has opened a screening centre in the village.{{cite web|url=https://www.pasteur-cayenne.fr/appui-a-la-sante-publique/cnr-paludismecc-oms/cnr-paludisme-antilles-guyane/ |title=CNR Paludisme, pôle zones endémiques françaises|website=Pasteur Cayenne|access-date=27 March 2021|language=fr}}

The village only has electricity in the evening, and is not connected to the internet. The village can be reached via the Oyapock River, and is located about one hour from Saint-Georges.

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Bibliography

{{cite journal|last1=Ogeron|first1=Clémence|last2=Odonne|first2=Guillaume|title=Palikur traditional roundwood construction in eastern French Guiana|url=https://agritrop.cirad.fr/587959/1/J_Beauchene.pdf |journal=Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine|year=2018|volume=14|issue=1|page=28|doi=10.1186/s13002-018-0226-7|pmid=29690891|pmc=5916587 |doi-access=free }}

Category:Saint-Georges, French Guiana

Category:Indigenous villages in French Guiana

Category:Villages in French Guiana