Talk:Guiana Shield

message: Has anybody else heard of Venezuela being referred to as:
"Spanish Guiana"?
or Brasil being:
"Portuguese Guiana"?
Source: The British Commonwealth Secretariat - On the History of Guyana. CaribDigita 23:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The ‘Guianas’ is the name or term that applies collectively to that vast area that stchampions leagueretches “between the Amazon and the Orinoco rivers in northern South America...
I do not know what the exact boundaries of the Shield are, so I suppose that the area of Guiana (or the Guaiana Shield) may differ from that of the Guianas Coast, which is delineated by the rivers.  --Nike 11:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I, too, had heard of the "Guiana Coast" being described as located (roughly) between the estuaries of the Amazon and the Orinoco. But I think this usage belongs in historical writings about the era of Western European exploration and colonialism. Today, the Amapá and Suriname are not referred to as "Guiana", although the name is used by the other states involved. // Big Adamsky  • BA's talk page 12:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think too the fact that the Guyana/Venezuela border has shifted also accounts for part of this non-clarity.  These a nice map on British Guiana that someone uploaded that shows the 1) extereme border territory claimed by Britain(Which is like 1/3 of Venezuela), 2) the somewhat agreed upon line(by both i.e. today's border) and 3) The extreme border territory claimed by Venezuela(which is half of Guyana.) CaribDigita 15:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

text: There is no blunder before Bolivar was born, Bolivar estate was the province of Guayana. This is a colonial term. The Spanish Guayana was simply the portion of the shield under control of the Spaniards until the 18th century, to distinguish it from the portions controlled by the British, French, Duch and the Portuguese. Certainly the terms do not seem to be nowdays in use. Dycotiles (talk) 14:22, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Needless to say ... 66.92.53.49 00:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added a simple one, good enough I hope until something better comes along. Geologyguy 02:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a map 

message: This article should be separated into two articles. One called "Guiana Shield", that deals with the geological shield and the other one "Guiana Highlands", that deals with the visible highlands. --Jeroenvrp (talk) 14:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but while that doesn't happen, for the Highlands part sake, I have corrected the information that Pico da Neblina is the highest tepui - it is not a tepui and is located far from where tepuis are found, though it is the highest point in the Guiana Shield. The highest tepui is Monte Roraima. --UrsoBR (talk) 14:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

text: The highest tepui is Cerro Neblina, or the sandstone plateau that forms the western portion of what is known in Brasil as Serra do Imeri. Cerro Neblina/Western Serra do Imeri is a highly eroded sandstone plateau, with a very rugged edge along the Venezuelan-Brasil border, that certainly does not resemble the tipical table-like shape of other tepuis. On this rugged edge the higher elevations of Pico da Neblina and Pico Phelps (Pico 31 marco) are located. The west, northwest and northeast portions of the massif clearly resemble a classical tepuy. The term tepuy is used nowdays in a scientific context to describe all the sandstone massifs of the Roraima formation. The word tepuy is certainly not in common use in Brasil as far as I understand, but Neblina is definitely referred to as a tepuy in Venezuela. Dycotiles (talk) 14:30, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shield vs Highlands 

message: The article states that the Shield "has 1400 vertebrate species and 1680 bird species." This is already marked with a "citation needed" tag, but I would suggest this to be removed altogether until that information can be verified or replaced with other data, because it is obviously incorrect: birds are vertebrates, but so are mammals, reptiles, fish, etc., so the number of bird species cannot be greater than the number of vertebrate species. --UrsoBR (talk) 14:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biodiversity