Mount Roraima ( Roraima Tepui )

 tourist attraction, tepui (table top mountain)

Mount Roraima (known as Monte o Cerro Roraima in Spanish, Monte Roraima in Portuguese), with a peak at 2772 metres (9094 feet), is the highest of Venezuela's distinctive table-top mountains, known as tepuis.

With sheer 400-metre high cliffs on all sides there is only one ‘easy’ way up, on a natural staircase-like ramp on the Venezuelan side – to get up any other way takes an experienced rock climber. On the top of the mountain it rains almost every day, washing away most of the nutrients for plants to grow and creating a unique landscape on the bare sandstone surface. This also creates some of the highest waterfalls in the world over the sides (Angel falls is located on a similar tabletop mountain some 130 miles away). Though there are only a few marshes on the mountain where vegetation can grow properly, these contain many species unique to the mountain, including a species of carnivorous pitcher plant.

The mountain marks the border between Bolivar State(Venezuela), Rorima (Brazil) and Guayana Essequiba(Venezuela), although more than three quarters of the mountain is in Venezuelan territory. The double border point on the summit is at 5°12'08N, 60°44'07W.

Was the inspiration by Pixar for the animated movie 'UP'

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