Jaua-Sarisariñama National Park (Spanish: ''Parque nacional Jaua-Sarisariñama'') was located in the

Guayana Highlands Guyana is a country in the Guianas, South America. Guyana, Guiana, or Guayana may refer to: * French Guiana, an overseas department of France in the Guianas * The Guianas, a region in the north of South America * Guayana Region, an administrative ...

, within Bolívar State of southeastern

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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(2015
Important Bird and Biodiversity Area factsheet: Parque Nacional Jaua-Sarisariñama
Downloaded on 11/11/2015 It was established in 1978. It has been subsumed within

Caura National Park The Caura National Park ( es, Parque nacional Caura) is a protected area with the status of National Park in Venezuela. With an area of 7,534,000 ha. (75,340 km2) it is the largest park in the country and the most recently created (2017). The ...

, which was established in 2017. The landscape of the park is notable for three sandstone

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 ...

s, Jaua, Sarisariñama and Guanacoco. The top of Sarisariñama is forested and has

sinkhole A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are locally also known as ''vrtače'' and shakeholes, and to openi ...

Ecology

The park is an

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

. Resident bird species include Tepui parrotlet (''Nannopsittaca panychlora''). Amphibians of interest include three species of ''

stefania ''Stefania'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hemiphractidae. They are native to the highlands of the Guiana Shield in southern Venezuela, Guyana, and adjacent far northern Brazil. Most are restricted to the tepui highlands, but '' S. evansi'' ...

'' (carrying frogs) which appear to be

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the park: * ''

Stefania oculosa ''Stefania oculosa'' (common name in es, rana stefania de ojos grandes) is a species of frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is endemic to the Bolívar state of southern Venezuela and only known from Cerro Jaua, a tepui; it possibly occurs mor ...

'' (Spanish: ''Rana Stefania De Ojos Grandes'') * ''

Stefania percristata ''Stefania percristata'' ( es, rana stefania de Jaua) is a species of frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is endemic to Venezuela and only known from its type locality, Cerro Jaua in Bolívar State. It occurs along streams at the top of the t ...

'' * ''

Stefania riae ''Stefania riae'' (common name: Sarisarinama carrying frog, es, rana stefania del Sarisarinama) is a species of frog in the family Hemiphractidae. This species is only known from Cerro Sarisariñama, a tepui in the Bolívar State, Venezuela. ...

References

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