Canaima National Park

One of the most extraordinary and majestic natural scenes in Venezuela is the Canaima National Park. It is located in the beautiful state of Bolivar, proclaimed a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1994.
The imposing surface extends for 30,000 square kilometers to the border with Guyana and Brazil, due to its magnitude occupies the sixth place in the category of the largest national parks in the world. More than half of its extension is full of great landscapes formed by plateaus of rocks called tepuyes, as well as cliffs and gigantic waterfalls, being the most famous of the Angel Falls, which presents the highest elevation in the world, nothing more and nothing less than 979 meters

It was proclaimed a national park by UNESCO because it is a magnificent natural reserve that has great and precious steep reliefs unique in the world, especially when mentioning the tepuis, which are the plateaus, those vertical walls and almost flat summits that have millions of years of antiquity. It should be noted that the tepuyes are sandstone rocks and are from the period when America and Africa created their gigantic continent; this type of relief is called Guayanés Massif.

The most famous tepuyes are Mount Roraima, the highest and most accessible of the entire park; the Auyan tepui, being the busiest for tourists, because it is the Angel Falls.

In addition to being the refuge of a diverse fauna and flora, it is the home of the well-known indigenous group Los Pemones, who have a deep relationship and belief that these immense tepuis are the home of the Mawari spirits. This scenario is totally isolated from civilization; It has few routes that communicate with other nearby cities, such as Ciudad Guayana. You must make the tour of this park through canoes, as the most common means.

Among the species that inhabit Canaima, are: the giant water dog, the puma, the jaguar, the harpy eagle, the mining sapito, the dwarf macaw, among others. As for the flora, there are approximately 300 endemic species only in the Gran Sabana; such as Chimantaea, Quelchia, Tepuia, among others; and insectivorous classes such as Bromelia, Heliamphora, Drosera, among others