The statue at the entrance to the city

A while back, I posted a photo of the entrance to the city and showed how it was next to a McDonald’s. Yesterday I got a closer look at the statue and found that it was really honoring not the Amerindian heritage of the city (which is basically gone), but rather the three founding populations of the French Guiana colony: European, African, and Amerindian (the large Asian population came later, in the mid-nineteenth century during the gold rush).