Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a floating island from the sky. Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and ...
Rising abruptly from the lush, untamed jungles of southeastern Venezuela, Mount Roraima is a geological behemoth that defies logic. With its perfectly flat plateau and sheer, vertical cliffs plunging ...
This breathtaking view showcases Angel Falls in Canaima National Park, Venezuela, the tallest waterfall in the world.
CHIMANTA TEPUI, VENEZUELA — Charles Brewer Carias has found sinkholes, collected new species of plants and scorpions and rappelled into unexplored caves on his nearly 200 expeditions into the ...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. It’s difficult to describe the feeling of standing beneath ...
The Jaua-Sarisariñama National Park in Bolívar State, Venezuela, holds one of the planet’s most compelling and mysterious geological secrets, the sinkholes of the Sarisariñama tepui. These formations, ...
The wall of the Upuigma Tepui rock shelter in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park is covered with pictograms painted in red and yellow ocher. The artists who created these images may have been inspired ...