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    Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana. Tepuis tend to be found...
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    between Uei-tepui and Roraima-tepui. Ilú- and Tramen-tepuis are often treated together since they are joined by a common base. The Eastern Tepuis chain has...
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    called the Guiana Highlands, which is where the table-like mountains called tepuis are found. The Guiana Highlands are also the source of some of the world's...
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  • Gran Sabana (section Tepuis)
    the chain of the 7 eastern tepuis. These also highlight the tepuis Iglú-tepui, Ptarí-tepui, Acopán-tepui and the Sororopán-tepui, which has a tilt feature...
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    Venezuela. It is the most visited and one of the largest (but not the highest) tepuis in the Guiana Highlands, with a summit area of 666.9 km2 (257.5 sq mi) and...
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    Oreophrynella nigra (category Amphibians of the Tepuis)
    State, Venezuela, and known from two tepuis, Kukenan-tepui and Yuruani-tepui, both belonging to the Eastern Tepuis. It is a small species of toad: males...
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    Yuruaní-tepui, also known by the Pemón name Iwalkarima, Iwalecalima or Iwarkárima, is a tepui of the Eastern Tepuis chain primarily situated in Venezuela...
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    most famous tepuis in the park are Mount Roraima, the tallest and easiest to climb, and Auyantepui, the site of Angel Falls. The tepuis are sandstone...
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    Distribution of Heliamphora (category Flora of the Tepuis)
    known as tepuis. The genus has a highly disjunct distribution spread across two major groups of tepuis: the western range in Amazonas and the eastern range...
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    The Ilú–Tramen Massif is a tepui massif in Bolívar state, Venezuela. It is the northernmost member of the Eastern Tepuis chain and comprises two major...
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    Wei-Assipu-tepui, also known as Little Roraima or Roraimita, is a minor tepui of the Eastern Tepuis chain. It lies just off the northeastern flank of Roraima-tepui...
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    Cerro de la Neblina (category Tepuis of Brazil)
    (Theaceae), a high-elevation rosette shrub endemic to a wet equatorial tepui. Oecologia 70(4): 481–485. doi:10.1007/BF00379892 (in Spanish) Joly, L.J...
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    Mount Roraima (redirect from Roraima-tepui)
    Roraima; Portuguese: Monte Roraima) is the highest of the Pacaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America.: 156  It is located at...
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    Wadakapiapué-tepui, also spelled Wadakapiapö, Wadakapiapo, Wadaka Piapo or Guadacapiapui, is a tepui of the Eastern Tepuis chain in Bolívar, Venezuela...
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    Venezuela. It may be considered the southernmost member of the Eastern Tepuis chain. Uei-tepui has an elevation of around 2,150 metres (7,050 ft), a summit...
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    Karaurín-tepui, also spelled Caraurín, is a tepui of the Eastern Tepuis chain in Bolívar state, Venezuela, just along the border with neighboring Guyana...
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  • It consists of four rather small tepuis, forming a bridge between the giant Auyán-tepui to the west and Ptari-tepui to the east. The four major peaks...
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    Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the Indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana. Tepuis can be considered...
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    some Venezuelan tepuis. Hydrobiologia 377(1–3): 205–211. doi:10.1023/A:1003260602055 Morton, C.V. (1957). Pteridophyta: Ptari-tepuí. [pp. 729–741] In:...
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    Brazil, and other tepuis in southeastern Venezuela and western Guyana S. r. urutani: several tepuis in Venezuela's Bolívar state The tepui foliage-gleaner...
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    Venezuela and nearby Brazil the tepui toucanet inhabits moist subtropical montane cloudforest on tepuis. In eastern Venezuela and the Guianas it inhabits...
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    sandstone tepuis. The Guianan savanna contains the Gran Sabana mosaic of grasslands and tree patches. There are continuous forests at the base of the tepuis, and...
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    Venezuelan Coastal Range, Santa Marta Mountains, Tepuis, most of Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and eastern Brazil. It occurs in a wide range of habitats...
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    rounded hills, low mountains and Tepuis up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) high, and the lower slopes of the higher tepuis. Soils are mostly sandy and low in...
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    the Venezuelan Guayana. The higher elevation Guayana Highlands and its tepuis (mesas) are in the southwestern section. Almost the entirety of this immense...
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    branches of Tupian, which cluster into Western Tupian and Eastern Tupian. Within Western and Eastern Tupian, the most divergent branches are listed first,...
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    Greater flowerpiercer (category Birds of the Tepuis)
    species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the tepuis of western Guyana, eastern Venezuela and far northern Brazil. Its natural habitats are...
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    Range, the highest elevations of Serra do Mar in Southeastern Brazil, and tepuis of the Guiana Shield. Most of Yunnan and mountainous areas across Southeast...
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    of the Pakaraima range. Mount Roraima and Guyana's table-top mountains (tepuis) are said to have been the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912...
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  • Coastal Venezuela montane forests NT0147 Orinoco Delta swamp forests NT0169 Tepuis NT0171 Trinidad and Tobago moist forests Guianan moist forests NT0125 Guianan...
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