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Monte Roraima National Park

Monte Roraima National Park
Parque Nacional do Monte Roraima
IUCN category II (national park)
Monte Roraima, Roraima.JPG
Skyline from the top of Mount Roraima
Map showing the location of Monte Roraima National Park
Map showing the location of Monte Roraima National Park
Nearest city Boa Vista, Roraima
Coordinates 5°09′40″N 60°36′50″W / 5.161°N 60.614°W / 5.161; -60.614Coordinates: 5°09′40″N 60°36′50″W / 5.161°N 60.614°W / 5.161; -60.614
Area 116,747.80 hectares (288,490.1 acres)
Designation National park
Created 28 June 1989
Administrator Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation

Monte Roraima National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional do Monte Roraima) is a national park in the state of Roraima, northern Brazil.

It includes the Brazilian section of Mount Roraima, and other mountains along the borders with Venezuela and Guyana, and a diverse environment including tropical rainforest and savanna.

The park is fully contained within the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous territory, and has the dual role of conserving the environment and supporting the constitutional rights of the indigenous people.

Monte Roraima National Park is in the Uiramutã municipality of the state of Roraima. It has an area of 116,747.80 hectares (288,490.1 acres).

The park includes part of the Cotingo River basin, where plans have been made for a hydro-electric plant. The area has high potential for mining, agriculture, ranching and ecotourism, and has resulting tension between the strong Indian population and the ranchers and settlers.

The park includes part of the Pacaraima Mountains, which separate Brazil from Venezuela and Guyana. It is named after Mount Roraima, the highest of the Tepui mountains at almost 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) and one of the highest of the Pacaraima chain. The mountain has a flat top that holds a monument, the Marco da Triplice Fronteira, where the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil meet.

Altitudes in the park range from 920 to 2,780 metres (3,020 to 9,120 ft) above sea level. The mountains typically have large, flat table tops fringed by steep and partially denuded cliffs, which are surrounded by broad pediments cut with ravines that merge into the lower dissected reliefs of the Pacaraima range. The Serra do Sol range to the southeast has altitudes up to 2,400 metres (7,900 ft).

The park contains the sources of the most northerly rivers that flow south into the Branco River basin. These include the Cotingo River, with its headwaters at the foot of Mount Roraima, the Panari River in the extreme north to the south of the Caburaí mountains, the Maú or Ireng River, which forms the border between Brazil and Guyana, and the Uailan River near the Uailan mountains. The Cotingo and Maú rivers have continuous stretches of rapids and waterfalls, including the dramatic Garã Garã waterfall on the Maú.


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