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RE: 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - South American Saturday week #31 - the absolute winner takes 200 SBD!

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The Canaima National Park is a national park located in the Bolívar state, Venezuela. It was established on June 12, 1962 and declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1994.

It extends over 30,000 km² to the border with Guyana and Brazil, because of its size it is considered the sixth largest national park in the world. About 65% of the park is occupied by rock plateaus called tepuyes. These constitute a unique biological medium, also presenting a great geological interest. Its steep cliffs and its waterfalls (including Angel Falls, which is the highest waterfall in the world, at 1283 m).