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2 unusual facts about Canaima National Park


Canaima

Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1994) characterized by its rivers and lagoons in southeastern Venezuela

Oreophrynella quelchii

This species is restricted to the transboundary summit of Mount Roraima in Venezuela (inside Canaima National Park World Heritage Site), Guyana and Brazil, and from Wei-Assipo-Tepui in Guyana.


Bonnetia bolivarensis

It is found only in Venezuela, known only from a single locality in the summit savanna of Ptari-tepui, in Canaima National Park in Bolívar.

Caroní River

In the high basin of the rivers that form the Caroni (Aponguao, Cuquenán and Yuruaní) the Gran Sabana unfolds itself, partly belonging to the Canaima National Park.

The higher basin of the Caroni is situated in the Gran Sabana (Canaima National Park) close to the border with Brazil.


see also

Kavak

Kavak, Venezuela, a village within the Canaima National Park and a river affluent to the Carrao River in Bolívar State

Pemon people

In 1999, Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld arranged the transport of a red stone boulder, weighing about 35 metric tons, from Venezuela's Canaima National Park to Berlin Tiergarten for his "global stone" project.