Cerro Huachamacari
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Cerro Huachamacari, also spelled Huachamakari or Kushamakari, 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 ...
. It lies northwest of the giant Cerro Duida and the other peaks of the Duida–Marahuaca Massif, and is considerably lower at only around .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. Cerro Huachamacari has a summit area of and an estimated slope area of . It is within Duida-Marahuaca National Park.


See also

* Distribution of ''Heliamphora''


References


Further reading

* Jaffe, K., J. Lattke & R. Perez-Hernández (January–June 1993)
Ants on the tepuies of the Guiana Shield: a zoogeographic study.
''Ecotropicos'' 6(1): 21–28. Tepuis of Venezuela Mountains of Venezuela Geography of Amazonas (Venezuelan state) {{venezuela-geo-stub