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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.
The Border Rivers with Guyana, the Corentyne and Upper-Corentyne, are often Labeled incorrect on maps. these are the correct names of the Border rivers of Suriname. Nederlands: Eenvoudige kaart met de nadruk op Suriname en haar grens rivieren met Guyana en Frans-Guyana. de grensrivieren met Guyana, de Corantijn en boven Corantijn, worden vaak ...
Political map of The Guianas. The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a geographical region in north-eastern South America. Strictly, the term refers to the three Guianas: Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, formerly British, Dutch, and French Guiana. Broadly, it refers to the South American coast from the mouth of the Orinoco to the ...
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 ...
Clickable map of Europe, showing the standard convention for its continental boundary with Asia. (see boundary between Asia and Europe for more information). Legend: blue = Contiguous transcontinental states; green = Sometimes considered European but geographically outside Europe's boundaries.
The Atlantic Shield. The Amazonian (Brazilian) Shield on the eastern bulge portion of South America. Bordering this is the Guiana Shield to the north, and the Platian Shield to the south. The Uruguayan Shield; The Baltic (Fennoscandian) Shield is located in eastern Norway, Finland and Sweden. The African (Ethiopian) Shield is located in Africa.