{{Infobox river | name = Inini | image = File:KITLV A870 - Monding van de Inini-kreek in Marowijne, KITLV 93802.tiff | image_size = | image_caption = Confluence of the Inini River with the Lawa River (1903) | pushpin_map = French Guiana | source1_location = Confluence of the Emerillon Creek and the Limonade Creek | source1_coordinates = {{coord|3.3969|-53.2408}} | mouth_location = Confluence with Lawa | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|03|38|55|N|54|00|15|W|display=inline,title}} | progression = {{RLawa}} | subdivision_type1 = Commune | subdivision_name1 = Saül & Maripasoula, French Guiana | length = 215 km | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = }} The '''Inini''' or '''Grand Inini''' is a river in western French Guiana. It is a tributary of the Lawa, the upper course of the Maroni. The river is {{convert|215|km|mi|abbr=on}} long (including its upper course Limonade) and non-navigable.<ref name=sandre>{{sandre|id=52--0200|nom=grand inini (riviere); limonade (crique)}}</ref> The Inini is the only major river in French Guiana which runs east to west, unlike the other major rivers which run south to north.<ref name="temps">{{cite web|url=https://www.un-temoin-en-guyane.com/au-temps-de-l-inini|title=Au temps de l'Inini|website=Un Témoin en Guyane|access-date=4 August 2020|language=fr}}</ref> In the beginning of the 20th century, it was the site of a gold rush, and the gold prospectors have become active in the region again since the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/55504/RevuedEcologie_2002_SUP8_13.pdf?sequence=1|title=Explorations scientifique et aurifère: le paradoxe de Saint-Eugène, Guyane française|website=Revue d'écologie|access-date=4 August 2020|year=2002|author=Pierre-Michel Forget|archive-date=24 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324114835/http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/55504/RevuedEcologie_2002_SUP8_13.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Inini territory which has existed between 1930 and 1946 was named after this river.<ref name="temps"/>
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