First pick
Ilet Alikisan Tabiki
Wood or forest
12 ha
1.5 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Julien Ateni · CC BY-SA 4.090%of the land protected
Outdoors in Maripasoula · protected areas, woods and footpaths
90% of Maripasoula’s land is protected for nature
100% of Maripasoula is mapped woodland. 16 km of footpaths cross Maripasoula (0 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
90%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
100%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
16 km
0 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Ilet Alikisan Tabiki
Throughout this page, the French Guiana median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Maripasoula?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Part of Guiana Amazonian Park44% of the commune is in the park’s core, its strictly protected zone.A wooded commune100% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Maripasoula apart: its share of Guiana Amazonian Park, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Maripasoula compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas90%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
91out of 100
Woodland100%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
100out of 100
Footpaths0 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
0out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Maripasoula has the fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,414 to 9,747 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bures-sur-Yvette (8.5 km per km²) to Maripasoula (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bures-sur-Yvette Essonne | 8.5 | 26% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 2 | Ville-la-Grand Haute-Savoie | 6 | 14% | 0% | 287 km |
| 3 | Crosne Essonne | 5.8 | 12% | 0% | 167 km |
| 4 | Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 4.4 | 10% | 0.1% | 123 km |
| 5 | Darnétal Seine-Maritime | 4.2 | 37% | 0% | 53 km |
| 6 | Redon Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.8 | 10% | 32% | 28 km |
| 7 | Aytré Charente-Maritime | 3.7 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Saint-Jean-le-Blanc Loiret | 3.6 | 4.8% | 11% | 207 km |
| 9 | Lesquin Nord | 3.5 | 4.8% | 0% | 68 km |
| 10 | Vernouillet Yvelines | 3.5 | 19% | 0% | 124 km |
| 11 | Séné Morbihan | 3.3 | 10% | 90% | On it |
| 12 | Arques Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 37% | 76% | 31 km |
| 13 | Montigny-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 78 km |
| 14 | Quincy-sous-Sénart Essonne | 2.8 | 57% | 0% | 174 km |
| 15 | Landivisiau Finistère | 2.8 | 12% | 0.8% | 14 km |
| 16 | Leers Nord | 2.6 | 1.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 17 | Aucamville Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 2.3% | 0% | 151 km |
| 18 | Basse-Goulaine Loire-Atlantique | 2.5 | 14% | 14% | 44 km |
| 19 | Sallaumines Pas-de-Calais | 2.4 | 8.1% | 0% | 77 km |
| 20 | Savenay Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 14% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 21 | Bondues Nord | 2.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 56 km |
| 22 | Clermont-l'Hérault Hérault | 2 | 22% | 46% | 32 km |
| 23 | Pérols Hérault | 1.9 | 0.6% | 37% | 2.2 km |
| 24 | Lescar Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 6.6% | 20% | 89 km |
| 25 | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 23% | 100% | 37 km |
| 26 | Nort-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 9% | 6.6% | 53 km |
| 27 | Aire-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 43 km |
| 28 | Dombasle-sur-Meurthe Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1 | 17% | 0% | 380 km |
| 29 | Luçon Vendée | 0.9 | 1.1% | 100% | 16 km |
| 30 | Elne Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.2% | 3% | On it |
| 31 | Albert Somme | 0.8 | 1.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 32 | L'Isle-Jourdain Gers | 0.7 | 7% | 0% | 173 km |
| 33 | Saint-Doulchard Cher | 0.7 | 8.8% | 7.2% | 282 km |
| 34 | Vallet Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 56 km |
| 35 | Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe Tarn | 0.6 | 6.1% | 1.1% | 138 km |
| 36 | Saint-Jean-d'Illac Gironde | 0.5 | 79% | 0.5% | 23 km |
| 37 | Audenge Gironde | 0.4 | 72% | 100% | On it |
| 38 | Petit-Caux Seine-Maritime | 0.3 | 4.6% | 1.1% | On it |
| 39 | Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire Nièvre | 0.3 | 24% | 3.8% | 295 km |
| 40 | Tonneins Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 2.8% | 3.5% | 99 km |
| 41 | Maripasoula French Guiana | 0 | 100% | 90% | 222 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Maripasoula
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Ilet Alikisan Tabiki leads, at 12 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Maripasoula
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, core
Guiana Amazonian Park
44% of the commune23 km from the center
National park, outer area
Guiana Amazonian Park
47% of the commune0 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area90%
National park, core44%
National park, outer area47%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
90% of Maripasoula’s land is protected, more than in 91% of compared French towns; the median compared town in French Guiana has –. A national park’s outer area (aire d’adhésion) is made of the communes that signed the park’s charter: it guides how they grow, but it isn’t strict protection like the core. Natura 2000 doesn’t apply in the overseas départements.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
16 km of footpaths cross Maripasoula
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
16 km
0 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
100%
about 18,564.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MaripasoulaFrench Guiana medianFrance median
Footpaths0
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MaripasoulaFrench Guiana medianFrance median
Woodland100%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 99% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. The center of Maripasoula is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood (INSEE’s population grid doesn’t cover French Guiana).
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The walking year in Maripasoula
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Maripasoula, 0.1 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 11.9 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 12.2 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 11.9 |
| High (°C) | 31 | 31 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 32 |
| Rain (mm) | 223 | 235 | 239 | 285 | 354 | 281 | 205 | 160 | 58 | 70 | 112 | 195 |
September is the driest month (58 mm) and October the warmest (highs of 34 °C). 354 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 34 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Maripasoula →
Neighbors
Next to Maripasoula
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PapaichtonMaripasoula
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maripasoula | 90% | 100% | 0 |
| Papaichton 5,006 · 23 km | 90% | 99% | 0 |
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Maripasoula
Is Maripasoula in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Maripasoula lies in Guiana Amazonian Park (44% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Maripasoula?
OpenStreetMap maps 16 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Maripasoula is woodland?
100% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Maripasoula near the sea?
No: the coast is 222 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.