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Potaro District, Guyana
December 2000 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
Guyana is a former British colony on the north coast of South America. The capital, Georgetown (pop. 250,000), is 2,200 miles southeast of Miami. The country is 83,000 square miles in area, depending on who does the counting.
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