The Angel Falls - Kerepakupai Vená

The Angel Falls is named after the man who discovered it in 1937, American adventurer and aviator Jimmy Angel. However, the natives of the area, the Pemones, already knew it previously and had baptized it as Churún Merú.

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The Angel Falls is one of Venezuela's major tourist attractions, but even today, a trip to the falls is not a simple matter, because the area is isolated by the thick jungle, and the tepuyes make navigation dangerous aerial You can reach the region by a plane flight from Caracas or Ciudad Bolivar, to arrive at a camp in Canaima. Other tourists prefer to reach the falls by more natural means, crossing the jungle by the waterways until reaching the base of the jump. The Angel Falls is also known erroneously as Churún-Merú (when the correct one is Kerepakupai Vená, river that gives origin to the jump and branch of Churún River), name that corresponds in fact to another cataract that is in the same Tepuy, of some 400 m high.

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There are two ways to see the Angel Falls. One of them is from the air, in a small plane and the other is on a trip that starts from the port of Ucaima in Canaima, and lasts more than 3 hours sailing along the Carrao River and then through the Churún. From the Churún River, to the viewpoint of Angel Falls, you should walk about an hour through the jungle.

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