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Venezuela Canaima National Park

Venezuela - Canaima National Park

IUCN Management Category: II (National Park)
Natural World Heritage Site; Criteria i, ii, iii, iv

Canaima National Park is spread over three million hectares in the south-east of Venezuela in Bolívar State along the border between Guyana and Brazil. Roughly 65 per cent of the park is covered by table mountain (tepui) formations. The tepuis constitute a unique biogeological entity and are of great geological interest, with sheer cliffs and waterfalls, including the highest in the world - the 1,000 metre Angel Falls. Canaima was established as a national park on 1962 and inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994.

Links:
http://www.unesco.org/whc/sites/701.htm
http://www.wcmc.org.uk:80/protected_areas/data/wh/canaima.html