The rainy season prevails about 10 months, with a period of relative drought between January and March with annual average between 1,600 and 2,200 mm (63 and 87 in) of rain (twice what is observed in the Venezuelan capital).

Sabana, Vega Alta, Puerto Rico

Mount Roraima is a spectacular flat table mountain surrounded by sheer cliffs creating an island floating in the sky on the plains of the Gran Sabana (the Great Savannah), a large part of south eastern Venezuela. The mountain is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis in South America.

Mount Roraima serves as the tripoint of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil; 5% the plateau part of its mountain plateau lies in Brazil, 10% in Guyana, with rest 85% in Venezuela….

One such high-rise, the Amazonian Mount Roraima, was the setting for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World, where it plays home to an undiscovered tribe of ape-men and several species of living dinosaurs.

Guiana Highlands
Mount Roraima, Spanish Cerro Roraima or Monte Roraima, Portuguese Monte Roraímã, giant flat-topped mountain, or mesa, in the Pakaraima Mountains of the Guiana Highlands, at the point where the boundaries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana meet.

Moreover, the guide explained to us that the different falls or waterfalls, although they are temporal, they reach impressive heights and are the sources of the rivers Arabopo, Cotíngo, Waruma and Paikwa, which in turn feed respectively the rivers Orinoco, Amazonas and Essequibo, reason why the indigenous Pemon call …

The summit of Mount Roraima is so otherworldly that it inspired The Lost World. Many of the flora and fauna found atop are unique to these tepuis, such as the carnivorous pitcher plants and the Roraima bush toad – a tiny black frog with a yellow body found only on Roraima.

Roraima is the highest tepuy (Spanish for table mountain) on the triple border of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. It is around 2,800 metres tall. Its name is derived from ‘Roroi-ma,’ which in Pemon means ‘big blue-green. ‘ The only way visitors can climb to the top is from the Gran Sabana side, in Venezuela.

Mount Roraima (in the Pemón language Roraima tepui, Roroi means “blue-green” and ma means “great”, tepui means “house of spirits”) is one of the 115 tepuis in the Gran Sabana.

Mount Roraima (in the Pemón language Roraima tepui, Roroi means “blue-green” and ma means “great”, tepui means “house of spirits”) is one of the 115 tepuis in the Gran Sabana. It is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepui plateau in South America and includes the triple border point of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.

The total population of the Gran Sabana is currently estimated at about 48,000. The Gran Sabana formed atop the Precambrian Guyana Shield, with the bedrock consisting of the Roraima Group, presumed to be 1.8-1.4 Ga in age. Within this Group is the resistant Mataui Formation, which forms the tepui cliffs and summits.

The formation is 600 to 900 metres (2,000 to 3,000 ft) thick and consists of quartzite, and quartzite arenites. Tepui summits are 900 to 1,600 metres (3,000 to 5,200 ft) above the surrounding terrain. The low area surrounding the table mountains is Wonkén Planation Surface.