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The Guiana Shield is one of the regions of highest biodiversity in the world, and has many endemic species. The region houses over 3000 vertebrate species: 1168 fresh water fish, 269 amphibians (54% endemics), 295 reptiles (29%), 1004 birds (7.7%), and 282 mammals (11%).
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The Guianan savanna (NT0707) is an ecoregion in the south of Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname and the north of Brazil. It is in the Amazon biome.The savanna covers an area of rolling upland plains on the Guiana Shield between the Amazon and Orinoco basins.
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 ...
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 ...
The relief of the southern Orinoco or Guiana is very varied, plains or savannahs, with heights ranging from 100 to 500 m (330 to 1,640 ft) above sea level, including the Gran Sabana, which is a plain with an average of 1,000 m (3,300 ft) above sea level, home to the magnificent tepuis, and finally the sierras or mountain ranges that reach considerable peaks of up to 3,800 m (12,500 ft) above ...
The Wilhelminagebergte is part of the Tumucumaque Uplands of the Guiana Shield. [1] It belongs to the very ancient (Precambrian) Guiana Highlands. Most of it is in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve. [2] Its best-known peaks are the Julianatop, 1280 m and the country's highest peak, and the Tafelberg, 1026 m. The area is surrounded by tropical ...
Mount Roraima is a flat-topped mountain, typical of the Guyana Shield, [12] with an elevation of about 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in the southeast and only about 600 m (2,000 ft) in the northwest. [7] The south, southeast, east, northeast and northwest faces are all formed by straight cliffs up to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft) high.