Tepequém
is a remote and sparsely populated (2010)
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in eastern
Amajari
Amajari () is a municipality located in the northwest of the state of Roraima in Brazil. Its population is 13,185 and its area is 28,472 km². It is the westernmost municipality in Roraima.
The municipality of Amajari is a region of 8 indigen ...
,
Roraima
Roraima (, ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Located in the country's North Region, it is the northernmost and most geographically and logistically isolated state in Brazil. It is bordered by the state of Pará to the southeast, Amazonas ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Diamond
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s were discovered near the village in the 1930s. The village can be reached by road from the RR-203. The economy is based on tourism.
Serro de Tepequém (Tepequém
Mountain Range
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)
The village of Tepequém is surrounded by Serro de Tepequém. Serro de Tepequém 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 ...
about 1,100 metres above sea level at its
plateau
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, its highest point.
[{{cite journal, url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273132492 , title=Two new endangered species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) from Roraima State, Northern Brazil , author=Antoine Fouquet, year=2015, journal=Zootaxa, volume=3926, issue=2 , page=192, doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.2, pmid=25781778 ]
References
Populated places in Roraima