of endemic plant and animal species. Notable tepuis include Auyantepui, Autana, Neblina, and Mount Roraima. They are typically composed of sheer blocks...
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Mount Roraima (Spanish: Monte Roraima; Tepuy Roraima; Cerro Roraima; Portuguese: Monte Roraima) is the highest of the Pacaraima chain of tepuis (table-top...
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The Eastern Tepuis (Spanish: Tepuyes Orientales), also known as the Roraima–Ilú range, is a mountain chain stretching for some 60 kilometres (37 mi) along...
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end of the tepui. Kukenán is located in Canaima National Park. Next to Kukenán, to the southeast, is Mount Roraima, a better known tepui. Kukenán is...
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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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Guiana Shield (category Geography of Roraima)
Highlands is dominated by high flat-topped peaks called tepuis, of the Roraima supergroup and Quasi-Roraima formation, and the rounded granite peaks of the Parguaza...
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Gran Sabana (section Tepuis)
and Roraima, in the chain of the 7 eastern tepuis. These also highlight the tepuis Iglú-tepui, Ptarí-tepui, Acopán-tepui and the Sororopán-tepui, which...
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Pacaraima Mountains (category Landforms of Roraima)
kilometres (500 mi). Its highest peak is Mount Roraima at 2,810 metres (9,220 ft) above sea level, a tepui surrounded by cliffs 300 metres (980 ft) high...
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Mount Roraima Yuruaní River and Yuruaní-tepui Ilú-tepui Wadakapiapué-tepui and Ilú–tepui Yuruaní-tepui and Wadakapiapué-tepui Jasper Creek Kukenán-tepui La...
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falls trickles down towards the base of the Kukenan Tepui. The Kukenan Tepui is located near Mount Roraima, which serves as the geographical marker of the...
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to the border with Brazil, and around 17 kilometres (11 mi) east of Roraima-tepui. However, the mountain remains the subject of considerable toponymic...
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Oreophrynella quelchii (redirect from Sapito Rugoso Del Roraima)
to the transboundary summit of Mount Roraima in Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, and to the nearby Wei-Assipu-tepui on the Brazil–Guyana border. It has been...
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Anomaloglossus roraima is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae. It is found on the tepui of southeastern Venezuela and western Guyana; it is expected...
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Distribution of Heliamphora (category Flora of the Tepuis)
Eastern Tepuis chain includes some of the most widely visited tepuis, particularly Roraima and nearby Kukenán. The Ilú (Uru) and Tramen Tepuis are treated...
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Sierra de Lema flycatcher (redirect from Tepui Flycatcher)
The Sierra de Lema flycatcher or Tepui flycatcher (Mionectes roraimae) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in...
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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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Brazil from Venezuela and Guyana. It is named after Mount Roraima, the highest of the Tepui mountains at almost 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) and one of the...
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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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Heliamphora nutans (category Flora of the Tepuis)
between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana, where it grows on several tepuis, including Roraima, Kukenán, Yuruaní, Maringma, and Wei Assipu. Heliamphora nutans...
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a natural rock formation on top of Mount Roraima. It is the highest point of that tabletop mountain (a tepui), at 2,810 metres (9,220 ft) a.m.s.l. The...
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and animal species. Some of the most outstanding tepuis are Neblina, Autana, Auyan and Mount Roraima. They are typically composed of sheer blocks of Precambrian...
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Koch-Grunberg, who visited Roraima in 1912. Important myths describe the origins of the sun and moon, the creation of the tepui mountains – which dramatically...
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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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Cerro Sarisariñama (category Tepuis of Venezuela)
other tepuis, Sarisariñama consists of quartzite of the Roraima formation, belonging to Paleoproterozoan. The summit area of Sarisariñama tepui is 546...
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metres (2,000 ft). They include the tepui swift (Streptoprocne phelpsi), tepui goldenthroat (Polytmus milleri) and tepui wren (Troglodytes rufulus). Endangered...
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entire belly is gray. The subspecies of tepui wren are distributed thus: T. r. rufulus, Mount Roraima and Uei-tepui at the Venezuela-Guyana-Brazil border...
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Spangler, P.J. (1981). New and interesting water beetles from Mt. Roraima and Ptari‐tepui, Venezuela (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae). Aquatic...
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of the Kamarang River in Region 8 of Guyana. The area is a part of the Roraima Basin, which is an area rich in gold deposits and has been extensively...
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mesa have also been used. For example, in the Roraima region of Venezuela, the traditional name, tepui, from the local Pomón language, and the term table...
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The tepui antpitta or brown-breasted antpitta (Myrmothera simplex) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae. It occurs in Venezuela, western Guyana...
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