Table-top mountain or mesa in the Guiana Highlands of South America
Tepui
Kukenan tepui
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecology
Realm
Neotropical
Biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Borders
Guianan Highlands moist forests
Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests,
Guianan savanna
Geography
Area
50,675 km2 (19,566 sq mi)
Countries
Venezuela
Brazil
Guyana
Suriname
Conservation
Conservation status
Relatively stable/intact[1]
Protected
37,658 km2 (74%)[2]
A tepui/ˈtɛpwi/, or tepuy (Spanish:[teˈpuj]), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.
Tepuis tend to be found as isolated entities rather than in connected ranges, which makes them the host of a unique array of endemic plant and animal species. Notable tepuis include Auyantepui, Autana, Neblina, and Mount Roraima. They are typically composed of sheer blocks of Precambrian quartz arenite sandstone that rise abruptly from the jungle. Auyantepui is the source of Angel Falls, the world's tallest waterfall.
^"Tepui". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
^Eric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
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