Cerro Avispa 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
Amazonas 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 ...
.
[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.] Part of the
Neblina–Aracamuni Massif, it lies south of
Cerro Aracamuni (with which it shares a common slope area) and north of
Cerro de la Neblina
Cerro de la Neblina (lit. "Mountain of the Mist"), also known as Serra da Neblina in Brazil and Sierra de la Neblina in Venezuela, is a sandstone massif located in the northern Amazon Basin. It is a tilted, heavily eroded plateau, with a deep can ...
. Cerro Avispa and Cerro Aracamuni have a combined summit area of and an estimated combined slope area of .
Both of these cerro-plateaus have a maximum elevation of around .
See also
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Distribution of ''Heliamphora''
References
Tepuis of Venezuela
Mountains of Venezuela
Geography of Amazonas (Venezuelan state)
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