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The Guiana Highlands are also the source of some of the world's most well-known waterfalls such as Angel Falls, Kaieteur Falls and Cuquenan Falls. The Guiana Shield underlies Guyana (previously British Guiana), Suriname (previously Dutch Guiana), and French Guiana (or Guyane), much of southern Venezuela, as well as parts of Colombia and Brazil.
City: Any settlement listed at [1] with population estimates of 75,000 or more. Town: Defined by the government of Guyana as 'municipalities'. [2] Village As defined by official government documents, census or gazetteers. Community: A settlement unlisted on government documents. Neighbourhood: Subdivisions of any of the above.
Brazilian Highlands: Brazilian Oldland Goyaz Massif Mato Grosso Plateau: Guiana Shield: Chiquitos Plateau Parana Plateau Coastal Plain Guiana Highlands: Guiana Coastal Plain Amazon Plain: Llanos De Mojos Orinoco Basin: Parana-Paraguay Plain: Gran Chaco: Pantanal: Argentine Mesopotamia: Pampas: Monte Patagonian Plateau: Antarctica: East ...
The country is home to six ecoregions: Guayanan Highlands moist forests, Guianan moist forests, Orinoco Delta swamp forests, Tepuis, Guianan savanna, and Guianan mangroves. [38] The Guiana Shield region is little known and extremely rich biologically. Unlike other areas of South America, over 70% of the natural habitat remains pristine.
The Guayana Highlands — the higher elevations, plateaus, and tepuis (mesas) on the Guiana Shield craton of the South American Plate in northern South America. The heavily forested highlands , located in northern Brazil , Guyana , and Venezuela , have Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregions .
The Guayanan Highlands moist forests (NT0124) is an ecoregion in the south of Venezuela, the north of Brazil, and also within Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It is in the Amazon biome. It encompasses an upland region with diverse fauna and flora, which contains dramatic tepuis, or sandstone table mountains. The region has been inaccessible ...
It is geologically part of the Guayana Shield and biogeographically part of the Guayana Highlands.The mountains form the divide between the Orinoco Valley to the north and the Amazon Basin to the south. They also serve as a natural boundary in the east–west direction, where they extend 800 kilometres (500 mi) to form a border marker between ...
It is on the geological Guiana Shield craton, and is the Venezuelan part of the biogeographic Guayana Highlands and their tepuis (mesas). Its limits by the north and east is formed by the route of the rivers Orinoco, Atabapo and Negro Rivers; and by the south the borders with Brazil. The region occupies almost half of the territory of Venezuela ...