Mount Roraima

Mount Roraima is a spectacular flat table mountain surrounded by sheer cliffs, creating an island floating in the sky on the plains of the Gran Sabana (the Great Savannah), a large part of southeastern Venezuela. The mountain is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis in South America. Covered with unique structures, animals, and plants found nowhere else on earth, this unique table-top mountain is a prehistoric island.

The Gran Sabana is known to the indigenous Pemon Amerindian people as Wek-tá (the "place of mountains"). The mountains, plains, and forests of the Gran Sabana are protected by the Canaima National Park, located in the south of Bolívar State on the Venezuelan-Brazilian border, around 1,400 km from Caracas.

The region is home to the indigenous Pemon people, who have established several small communities dotted around the Gran Sabana such as Kavac and Kamarata. The Pemon people have their own language, known as Pemon, and they have their own culture, customs, and traditions.