Guayana Coast

The Guiana coast borders a low, wet plain between the Orinoco and the rivers of Guyana. The Waini reaches the Atlantic through swamp forest at the eastern edge of the Orinoco delta. Offshore currents carry fine sediment northwest along the coast, creating migrating mudbanks; mangroves can take root in the sheltered mud. Tides and river channels continually reshape the meeting of land and sea.