The Roraima is the most famous of the numerous tepuis that dot the region of Gran Sabana in the Venezuelan state of Bolívar. It extends over three states: Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana, the boundaries of which meet right on its top.
It is almost 2800 m high and at the summit one can observe vegetation and fauna, as well as a landscape, unique in the world. There are several types of carnivorous plants and tiny black frogs that do not jump, the only vertebrates. On the summit the landscape looks like a lunar, littered with natural statues carved by the wind in a very dark rock;
there are "the valley of the crystals", an area completely covered with quartzes; "el labirinto", an area of hundreds of square meters where the rock has been dug deep by the wind in huge cubes, near the "triple point", where the border between Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana is located.
Just the Roraima was inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle to write the novel The Lost World. Mount Roraima also appears in the film The Unknown Deep Space by Werner Herzog.
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Address: Roraima, Venezuela
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