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Tepui
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Also known as tepuy, Pantepui

A tepui (), or tepuy (), is a member of a family of table-top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.

Key facts

Ecoregion.conservation
Relatively stable/intact
Ecoregion.name
Tepui
Ecoregion.image
File:Kukenan Tepuy at Sunset.jpg
Ecoregion.image_caption
Kukenan tepui
Ecoregion.map
Ecoregion NT0169.png
Ecoregion.map_caption
Ecoregion territory (in purple)
Ecoregion.biogeographic_realm
Neotropical
Ecoregion.biome
tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Ecoregion.border
Guianan Highlands moist forests
Ecoregion.border1
Guianan piedmont and lowland moist forests,
Ecoregion.border2
Guianan savanna
Ecoregion.area
50,675
Ecoregion.country
Venezuela
Ecoregion.country1
Brazil
Ecoregion.country3
Guyana
Ecoregion.country4
Suriname
Ecoregion.protected
37,658 km2 (74
Ecoregion.protected_ref
)

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
mesa
Country
Suriname
Continent
South America
Image
Kukenan Tepuy at Sunset.jpg
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Commons category
Tepuis
topic's main category
Category:Tepuis
Sources (1)

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Article · Italiano

I tepui sono un'ecoregione dell’ecozona neotropicale, appartenente al bioma delle foreste pluviali di latifoglie tropicali e subtropicali, indicate dal WWF con il codice NT0169.

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