Mount Roraima
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/30243
- Note
- "Mount Roraima (Spanish: Monte Roraima; Tepuy Roraima Portuguese: Monte Roraima [ˈmõtʃi ʁoˈɾajmɐ], and Cerro Roraima;) is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America.:156 First described to Europeans by the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh during his 1595 expedition, its 31-square-kilometre (12-square-mile) summit area:156 is bounded on all sides by cliffs rising 400 metres (1,300 ft). The mountain also serves as the tripoint of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil.:156 Raleigh learned about it from indigenous peoples, who lived there before arrival of Europeans in the 1500–1600s." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
- Latitude
- 5.1897416114807
- Longitude
- -60.738815307617
- Elevation
- 2,810
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