The Serranía de la Neblina National Park is a national park of Venezuela.

Location

It is located in the State of Amazonas, southwest of the

Parima Tapirapecó National Park Parima Tapirapecó National Park (''Parque Nacional Parima Tapirapecó'') is a Venezuelan national park in the southern state of Amazonas. Location The Parima Tapirapecó National Park is in the Atabapo and Río Negro municipalities. It is ...

. It covers the area of the

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 ...

, whose highest peak on the Venezuelan side is

Pico 31 de Março Pico 31 de Março, or Pico Trinta e Um de Março in full (), also known as Pico Phelps, is a mountain on the Brazil–Venezuela border. At above sea level, it is Brazil's second highest mountain. It is part of the Neblina massif, and the latter' ...

at 2,992 meters above sea level. The massif extends towards Brazilian territory, where the highest point,

Pico da Neblina Pico da Neblina (, ''Mist Peak'') is the highest peak in Brazil, above sea level, in the Serra da Neblina, part of the Serra do Imeri, a section of the Guiana Highlands on the Brazil-Venezuela border. As determined by a border survey exped ...

(3,014m). On the Brazilian side there is also a national park,

Pico da Neblina National Park Pico da Neblina National Park () is a national park in the state of Amazonas in the north of Brazil, bordering on Venezuela. It overlaps with several indigenous territories, which creates tensions over land use, as does the military presence due ...

, to preserve this ecosystem.

Physical

This mountainous massif is continuously covered with clouds, giving rise to its name "La Neblina" ("the mist"). Located in the middle of the Amazon, it is the highest elevation of the region. La Serrania La Neblina is the highest

tepuy 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 P ...

, and is cut in two by the Baría Grande Canyon, one of the deepest canyons in the world. The park, along with, the Parima Tapirapecó park, forms part of the Orinoco-Casiquiare biosphere reserve.

Environment

The park is in the

Guayanan Highlands moist forests The Guayanan Highlands moist forests (NT0124) is an ecoregion in the south of Venezuela, the north of Brazil, and also within Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. It is in the Amazon biome. It encompasses an upland region with diverse fauna and f ...

ecoregion. The park has a varied endemic vegetation including one shrub, Neblinaria celiae, that exists only exists in the park. There is also a wide variety of carnivorous plants. The park contains jaguar, tapir (Tapirus terrestris ), cunaguaro (Felis pardalis) and many different species of monkeys. Snakes are numerous, and include anacondas,

bothrops ''Bothrops'' is a genus of highly venomous pit vipers Endemism, endemic to the Neotropics.McDiarmid RW, Jonathan A. Campbell, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1''. Herpetologist ...

and green mapanares (lachesis muta) - these last two are very poisonous.

References

{{authority control National parks of Venezuela Guayana Highlands Geography of Amazonas (Venezuelan state) Protected areas established in 1978 1978 establishments in Venezuela Tourist attractions in Amazonas (Venezuelan state)

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