Scenery spectacular, wetlands, forests, caves, Angel Falls, the Indian village of Kevac the River Caroni, Orchid Island, the Rapids of Mayapan. The world lost in southern Venezuela, Canaima National Park.
The Canaima National Park is in the state of Bolivar in Venezuela. In 1994 was declared World Heritage by UNESCO. It has about 30,000 square kilometers and is one of the largest national park in the world.
One of the peculiarities of the park are its plateaus of rock that are larger tepuyes calls dle 50% of the park. The table mountains are the product of erosion of mountains and the Massif Guyana or Venezuela Gran Sabana . These are the oldest mountains on earth, dating from the Precambrian. They consist of sandstone, slate and quartzite.
The table mountains are mountains spectacular vertical walls and flat tops. The writer Arthur Conan Doyle ‘s novel recreating the tops of the table mountains as a habitat for dinosaurs.
The Pemón people
- The traditional inhabitants of the south east of Venezuela, the indigenous Pemon. The population is about 20,000 people and about 3 / 4 of them living in the Canaima National Park.
- The tepuis s had great symbolism for the people Pemón. For these people the tepuis are sacred mountains are the guardians of the savannah . According to the myths of the people in them Pemón mawari lives, spirits in the form of men can steal the souls of the living.
- Many villagers remain Pemón traditional ways of life based on hunting, farming and gathering, although trade is another cost-effective way for these people.
A privileged environment
Meadow, forest, marine habitats, wetlands, islands , mountains
- Flora, fauna, rivers, waterfalls, the highest waterfalls in the world as a world, jumping or Kukenán Angel.
- Animals like the giant anteater, jaguar, armadillo, puma, iguana, the bush dog, many species of reptiles and amphibians are endemic. Species of native vegetation, and other known as the Drosera the Bromeliad or Heliamphora .