Canaima / Angel Falls
The Canaima National Park and Angel Falls, Venezuela is located in the southeast of Venezuela in Bolivar State along the border with Brazil. The nearest city is Ciudad Bolivar some 600 km to the north.
Canaima
includes the uplands of the Gran Sabana and the eastern table mountains (tepuis)
of the Roraima Range, as well as the sandstone plateau of Chimantá and Auyán-tepui
and the north-western Canaima lowlands. It comprises Precambrian rocks which
have been subjected to 600 million years of erosion to form a spectacular
landscape. There are three disjunct physiographic units: undulating lowlands
between 350 and 650m; the flat plateau of the Gran Sabana (800-1500m); and the
tepui summits (2000-2700m). The summits reach 1000-2000m above the surrounding
plateau and their surfaces are often scarred by gullies, canyons and sinkholes
of several hundred metres depth. Water drains from the flat summits forming
hundreds of waterfalls. The Río Caroní, with its many tributaries arising
within the park, supplies the Guri dam which provides electricity to large areas
of the country. There are many waterfalls in the park including Angel Falls, the
world's tallest at 1002m
(Government of Venezuela, 1993),
VISITORS AND VISITOR FACILITIES:
Tourism is encouraged but restricted to designated areas such as Laguna de Canaima in the western sector of the park which can only be reached by air and where a limited number of concessionaries provide visitors with board, lodging and recreational services. A main road from Ciudad Bolívar runs along the eastern border of the park through the Gran Sabana, bisecting its south-east corner. There are no other roads within the park, the western section being accessible only by air.
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Angel Falls
Sapo Falls
Tepuys
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