Canaima National Park

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**Canaima National Park** () is a  park in south-eastern Venezuela. It is in about the same place as the Gran Sabana region. It is in Bolívar State, next to Brazil and Guyana. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

## History
Canaima National Park was made into a park on 12 June 1962.
As early as 1990, the countries in the Amazonian Cooperation Treaty decided to make this park bigger so it would meet Monte Roraima National Park in Brazil.

In 1994, the Canaima National Park was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The International Union for Conservation of Nature looked at this park in 2017, and it listed Canaima National Park as an area of significant concern: It said it was doing a bad job of protecting the living things in the park.

## Location
Canaima National Park is the second largest park in Venezuela, after Parima-Tapirapecó, and it is the sixth biggest national park in the world. It is about the same size as Belgium or Maryland. The park protects part of the Guayanan Highlands moist forests.

The most famous tepuis in the park are Mount Roraima and Auyantepui. The tepuis are sandstone. They are so old that, when they first existed, South America and Africa were part of the same big continent.

Indigenous people live in the park. They are called the Pemon Indians.

The park has only a few roads to towns. To travel inside the park, most people walk, canoe, or use small airplanes.

## Animals
Canaima has many animals. Among the species found are:

* Giant armadillo (*Priodontes maximus*)
* Giant otter (*Pteronura brasiliensis*)
* Giant anteater (*Myrmecophaga tridactyla*)
* Cougar (*Puma concolor*)
* Jaguar (*Panthera onca*)
* Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (*Choloepus didactylus*)
* White-faced saki (*Pithecia pithecia*)
* Brown-backed bearded saki (*Chiropotes israelita*)
* Roraima mouse (*Podoxymys roraimae*)
* Tyleria mouse opossum (*Marmosa tyleriana*)
* Harpy eagle (*Harpia harpyja*)
* Red-shouldered macaw (*Diopsittaca nobilis*)
* Dusky parrot (*Pionus fuscus*)
* Yellow-banded poison dart frog (*Dendrobates leucomelas*)
* Green iguana (*Iguana iguana*)
* Hummingbirds (Trochilinae)
* Toucans (Ramphastidae)
* South American bushmaster (*Lachesis muta*)
* Green acouchi (*Myoprocta pratti*)
* Bush dog (*Speothos venaticus*)
Canaima National Park is among one of several dozen regions in Venezuela that has been identified as an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBAs) by BirdLife International, a global cooperative of non-governmental organizations focused on the conservation of the world’s birds and their natural habitats.

## Plants
There are over 300 different species of plants that only live in La Gran Sabana. The park has carnivorous plants in it. These are plants that eat animals, usually insects.
* Endemic flora includes *Achnopogon, Adenanthe*, *Chimantaea*, *Mallophyton,* *Quelchia*, *Tepuia*.
* Endemic carnivorous plants include the *Heliamphora* (South American pitcher plants) and *Brocchinia* (a type of bromeliad), as well as several local species of *Drosera* (sundews), *Genlisea* (corkscrew plants) and *Utricularia* (bladderworts).

## Water 
The park has the entire watershed of the right bank of the Caroní River and two of the highest waterfalls in the world, Angel Falls and the Kukenán. It also has many lower waterfalls.

## Land forms 
The only land forms are the tepuis. These are plateaus. The tops of the plateus have many plants and animals. These plateaus are between 1.5 and 2 billion years, which makes them one of the oldest formations in the world.

## Places to visit 
### West 
### East 
In the 1990s, Canaima National Park had about 100,000 tourists each year, with 90% visiting its tepuis.

## Movies 
The movie Arachnophobia happens in a not-real town called Canaima. Some of the movie was made in the park.

## Pictures 

Image:Carrao river and tepuys.jpg|from left: Kurun tepui, Kusari tepui and Kuravaina tepui
Image:Kukenantepuyvenezuela.jpg| Kukenán-tepui view from base
Image:Salto Angel - Cañon del Diablo.JPG|Rio Churun devils canyon and Angel Falls
Image:Salto Chirimata en Venezuela y la Serra do Sol de fondo en Brasil.jpg|Uei-tepui and Chirimata Falls  
Image:Mount Roraima, Venezuela (12371474504).jpg|Mount Roraima
Image:Yuruani tepuy y rio - Gran sabana.jpg|Yuruaní River and   Yuruaní-tepui
Image:Ilú-tepui - southeastern face.JPG|Ilú-tepui
Image:Wadaka pia pu tepuy.jpg| Wadakapiapué-tepui and Ilú–tepui
Image:Wadakapiapo Yuruani tepuy 2010.jpg|Yuruaní-tepui and Wadakapiapué-tepui
Image:Jaspe Completa.JPG|Jasper Creek
Image:Kukenan Tepuy at Sunset.jpg|Kukenán-tepui
Image:Termiteros Gran Sabana.jpg|La Gran Sabana
Image:Salto Kamá 2.jpg|Kamá Falls
Image:Canaima (Fabrizio Morroia).jpg|Waterfalls of Canaima
Image:Kukenam-Tepui.jpg|Kukenan Tepui
Image:Laguna la Piscina.JPG|Pozo Azul
Image:Gran Sabana, Rio.JPG|River in the Gran Sabana
Image:Way to Salto del Angel, Canaima - panoramio (24).jpg|Churun River 
Image:Salto angel descubierto.jpg|Salto Angel aerial view
Image:SaltoAngel1.jpg|Angel Falls as seen from base
Image:Laguna-de-Canaima.jpg|Canaima Lake and Ucaima Waterfalls
Image:Kavac-2023.jpg|Kavac caves
Image:Salto-El-Hacha-2023.jpg|El Hacha falls
Image:Salto-El-Hacha-y-Ucaima.jpg|El Hacha and Ucaima falls. Carrao river and Canaima Lagoon

## Other articles
*La Gran Sabana

## References
## Other website 
* Official information about the Canaima National Park
* UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
* Official UNESCO website entry
* Canaima National Park
* Protected Planet Page for Canaima