Guyanese Orinoco

In a recent map I made I made the ignorant assumption that British Guyana could have been as developed as Canada (well...not quite, but you get me). But I was told it was a 'hellhole' and more or less unliveable for a lot of people, which is why it didn't get much immigration from Europe.

As such, if the Guyanese had somehow gained the mouth to the Orinoco at any point in history, could this affect how the country/colony developed?
 

archaeogeek

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In a recent map I made I made the ignorant assumption that British Guyana could have been as developed as Canada (well...not quite, but you get me). But I was told it was a 'hellhole' and more or less unliveable for a lot of people, which is why it didn't get much immigration from Europe.

As such, if the Guyanese had somehow gained the mouth to the Orinoco at any point in history, could this affect how the country/colony developed?

no
filler dammit

Also given the POD implied, there is no way the mouth of the Orinoco can be part of Guyana short of Britain going on a ridiculous war for no other reason than grabbing a territory comparable to it.
 

archaeogeek

Banned
Surely controlling the river would be profitable to trade going in and out of Venezuela?

In and out of what? It would be blocking only two states and that's debatable, and one is in the Amazon rainforest, the other was only granted statehood in 1901.
The area is a mix of amazon rainforest and flooded plains, the only thing they'd trade out of it is beef and wool.

And it still doesn't give a developed Guyana. And there was still no way it would be british in 1815, which is the POD that gives you a british Guyana; the most obscene extension of the border the British proposed went nowhere near it.

It's just a larger shithole.
 
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