Carrao-tepui, also spelled Karrao, is a
tepui
A tepui , or tepuy (), 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 S ...
in
Bolívar state,
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
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[Huber, O. (1995). Geographical and physical features. In: P.E. Berry, B.K. Holst & K. Yatskievych (eds.) '' Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume 1. Introduction.'' Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. pp. 1–61.] It has a maximum elevation of around and its densely forested summit plateau covers an area of . Part of the
Ptari Massif, it lies just northeast of neighbouring
Ptari-tepui, with which it shares a common slope area of , and north of the large ridge known as
Sororopán-tepui
Sororopán-tepui is a long ridge in Bolívar state, Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consi ...
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See also
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Distribution of ''Heliamphora''
References
Further reading
* Morton, C.V. (1957)
Pteridophyta: Ptari-tepuí p. 729–741In: J.A. Steyermark ''et al.'
Botanical exploration in Venezuela -- 4 ''Fieldiana: Botany'' 28(4): 679–1225.
* Vegas-Vilarrúbia, T., S. Nogué & V. Rull (August 2012). Global warming, habitat shifts and potential refugia for biodiversity conservation in the neotropical Guayana Highlands. ''Biological Conservation'' 152: 159–168.
Tepuis of Venezuela
Mountains of Venezuela
Mountains of Bolívar (state)
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