Tepui
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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)
via Wikidata · CC0
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.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA