Summer Eastern Venezuela: Rainforests, Tepuis & the Orinoco River

The tabletop mountains of the Guayanan Shield in southern Venezuela, northern Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname are a large number of precambric hills associated geographically with vertical walls, amazing waterfalls, and hosts of high endemism, both in flora and fauna. These mountains were given the name "tepui" based on the Pemón Amerindian language, referring to hills. The first tepui ever to be scientifically explored was Roraima, almost 165 years ago, by the Schomburgk brothe... Read More