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: * British Guiana, a British colony until 1966, now independent and known as Guyana * French Guiana, an overseas department of France in the Guianas * The ...

, within Bolívar State of southeastern

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

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

tepui A tepui , or tepuy (), is a member of a family of table-top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the ...

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 also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water ...

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 only 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 foun ...

to the park: * ''

Stefania oculosa ''Stefania oculosa'' (common name in ) 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 more widely. It was found on rocks ...

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

Stefania percristata ''Stefania percristata'' () 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 tepui. It is a nocturnal ...

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

References

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