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Phot.Venezuela.Tepui.01.002.1991.jpg
“…once upon a time”, in 1991", vintage photo
Venezuela, Canaima National Park, "Kukenán Tepui", also less known as "Matawi" & one 115 such "Mesas", Tables, in the Gran Sabana. The Kukenán is a tepui on the in the Venezuelan side of the Amazonas Rainforest in the Guayana Region, 2,680 mtr high & approximately 3 km long.
The Kukenan waterfalls, its highest of several waterfalls of this 674 mtr high tepui & located at the south end of the tepui.
A Tepui, meaning "house of the gods", describes a flat-topped mountain with vertical sides rising abruptly from the jungle. The Gran Sabana around all the peaks was often clear, but not so on the mountains.
Tepuis are the remains of a large sandstone plateau that once covered the granite basement complex between the north border of the Amazon Basin & the Orinoco, between the Atlantic coast & the Rio Negro, during the Precambrian period. Over millions of years, the plateaus were eroded & all that were left were isolated flat-headed tepuis with its hundreds of all heights of waterfalls, which were once underwater veins, feed by rain, therefor in the of-raining season some are dry or only with a very thin spill of water.
There are spots in Panama from where you see on one side the Pacific Ocean, looking down to the other side over the lower Caribbean Sea.
You have to fly from the Canaima Lagoon camp about 200 km in a small Chesna or similar, on the feet of the tepui are two landing strips. The trek, …which we did not make, out to the base of the peak across the Gran Sabana usually takes 1 to 1 1/2 days to reach the base of the peak. The trek to & back usually takes four to five days.
Flying directly from some cities, like Caracas, Ciudad Boliviar, or Ciudad Guyana you fly to Santa Elena, only a few hours south of San Francisco de Yurani & take the bus up from there or hire a vehicle.
Next to the Kukenán, to the southeast, is Mount Roraima, a better known tepui. Kukenán is more difficult to climb, so it is ascended much less frequently than Mount Roraima.
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📌 📷.......picture taken with my Nikon F 4 in 1989,
scanned from a Kodak film negative &
digitized with a Reflecta ProScan 7200 in September 2018
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👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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Phot.Venezuela.Tepui.01.002.1991.jpg
“…once upon a time”, in 1991", vintage photo
Venezuela, Canaima National Park, "Kukenán Tepui", also less known as "Matawi" & one 115 such "Mesas", Tables, in the Gran Sabana. The Kukenán is a tepui on the in the Venezuelan side of the Amazonas Rainforest in the Guayana Region, 2,680 mtr high & approximately 3 km long.
The Kukenan waterfalls, its highest of several waterfalls of this 674 mtr high tepui & located at the south end of the tepui.
A Tepui, meaning "house of the gods", describes a flat-topped mountain with vertical sides rising abruptly from the jungle. The Gran Sabana around all the peaks was often clear, but not so on the mountains.
Tepuis are the remains of a large sandstone plateau that once covered the granite basement complex between the north border of the Amazon Basin & the Orinoco, between the Atlantic coast & the Rio Negro, during the Precambrian period. Over millions of years, the plateaus were eroded & all that were left were isolated flat-headed tepuis with its hundreds of all heights of waterfalls, which were once underwater veins, feed by rain, therefor in the of-raining season some are dry or only with a very thin spill of water.
There are spots in Panama from where you see on one side the Pacific Ocean, looking down to the other side over the lower Caribbean Sea.
You have to fly from the Canaima Lagoon camp about 200 km in a small Chesna or similar, on the feet of the tepui are two landing strips. The trek, …which we did not make, out to the base of the peak across the Gran Sabana usually takes 1 to 1 1/2 days to reach the base of the peak. The trek to & back usually takes four to five days.
Flying directly from some cities, like Caracas, Ciudad Boliviar, or Ciudad Guyana you fly to Santa Elena, only a few hours south of San Francisco de Yurani & take the bus up from there or hire a vehicle.
Next to the Kukenán, to the southeast, is Mount Roraima, a better known tepui. Kukenán is more difficult to climb, so it is ascended much less frequently than Mount Roraima.
...............................................................................................................
📌 📷.......picture taken with my Nikon F 4 in 1989,
scanned from a Kodak film negative &
digitized with a Reflecta ProScan 7200 in September 2018
...............................................................................................................
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments