Montsinéry-Tonnegrande

Montsinéry-Tonnegrande
Location of the commune (in red) within French Guiana
Administration
Country	France
Overseas region and department	French Guiana
Arrondissement	Cayenne
Intercommunality	Centre Littoral
Mayor	Fernand Auguste (2001–2008)
Statistics
Land area1	600 km2 (230 sq mi)
Population2	1,970  (2007)
- Density	3 /km2 (7.8 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	97313/ 97356
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 4°53′31″N 52°29′36″W / 4.8919°N 52.4933°W / 4.8919; -52.4933

Montsinéry-Tonnegrande is a commune of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.

Montsinéry-Tonnegrande is to the south-west of Cayenne. It contains an Amazon zoo and various walking trails. The town was formerly host to an internment camp for Indochinese prisoners in the 1930s.

The commune was previously known as Tonnegrande-Montsinéry, but on 27 March 1969 the name was officially changed into Montsinéry-Tonnegrande.

Montsinéry is home to a shortwave transmission facility operated by the TDF Group that is designed to target listeners in the Americas and West Africa. The site is capable of DRM digital shortwave transmissions. An image of the rotatable curtain array antenna in Montsinéry can be found by searching Flickr for "Montsinery antenne". One of their broadcasting frequencies is the 7335 kHz slot that CHU (Canada) recently abandoned.

Recently the Voice of Russia began transmitting to North America from Montsinéry — its first transmissions from the western hemisphere since the early 1990s (it previously broadcast from Havana).

See also

• Communes of the Guyane department
• on May 14 heard at 0200 UTC in Spanish 0n 9735 kHz

References

• INSEE