The Communauté de communes des Savanes (CCDS) is a ''

communauté de communes A ''communauté de communes'' (, "community of communes") is a federation of municipalities (communes) in France. It forms a framework within which local tasks are carried out together. It is the least-integrated form of ''intercommunalité'' (in ...

'', an intercommunal structure in the

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département d'outre-mer The overseas departments and regions of France (french: départements et régions d'outre-mer, ; ''DROM'') are departments of France that are outside metropolitan France, the European part of France. They have exactly the same status as mainlan ...

French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label= French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas ...

. It was created in January 2011, and its seat is

Sinnamary Sinnamary is a town and commune on the coast of French Guiana, between Kourou and Iracoubo. Sinnamary was the second France, French settlement founded in French Guiana: the town was founded in 1664. Sinnamary lies on the Sinnamary River and is ...

.CC des Savanes (N° SIREN : 200027548)
BANATIC, accessed 8 April 2022. Its area is 11,942 km², and its population was 29,843 in 2018.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE, accessed 8 April 2022.

Composition

The ''communauté de communes des Savanes'' comprises the following communes:

Administration

The ''

'' is led by an

indirectly elected An indirect election or ''hierarchical voting'' is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office (direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties. It is one of the ol ...

President along with a ''conseil communautaire'' composed of 11 Vice-Presidents and 23 c''onseillers communautaires.''

President

Administrative seat

The administrative seat of the ''Communauté de communes des Savanes'' is located in

Kourou Kourou () is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America. Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA). It i ...

at 1 rue Raymond Cresson.

References

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