Area guides

Guyana's north-west corner on the Venezuelan border: rivers, mangroves and small communities reached mainly by boat or air.

• Mabaruma
• Moruca
• Port Kaituma

The Essequibo Coast: rice country along the coastal road from Supenaam to Charity, with the Pomeroon River behind it.

• Anna Regina
• Charity
• Queenstown, Essequibo
• Suddie
• Supenaam

Directly across the Demerara from Georgetown: the West Bank and West Coast villages, the busy Parika stelling, and the islands of Leguan and Wakenaam.

• Essequibo Islands
• West Bank Demerara
• West Coast Demerara

The most populated region and the heart of the market: Georgetown, the East Coast and the East Bank of the Demerara.

• East Bank Demerara
• East Coast Demerara
• Georgetown

Rice and cattle country on the coast between the Mahaica and Berbice rivers, with Rosignol at the Berbice River Bridge.

• Blairmont
• Fort Wellington
• Mahaicony
• Rosignol

Historic New Amsterdam, the sugar and rice villages of the Corentyne coast, and the crossing to Suriname at Moleson Creek.

• Albion
• Canje
• Corriverton
• Crabwood Creek
• New Amsterdam
• Port Mourant
• Rose Hall
• Tain
• Whim

Gold and forest country. Bartica, where the Essequibo meets the Mazaruni, is the gateway to the interior.

• Bartica
• Kamarang

Home of Kaieteur Falls, with mining towns such as Mahdia and remote forest villages.

• Mahdia

The Rupununi savannah: ranches, eco-lodges and Lethem's border trade with Brazil across the Takutu River Bridge.

• Aishalton
• Annai
• Lethem

Bauxite country. Linden sits on the Demerara River about 100 km inland from Georgetown, on the newly upgraded Soesdyke-Linden corridor.

• Ituni
• Kwakwani
• Linden