Kukenán, also known as Matawi or Cuquenán, is a
tepui
A tepui , or tepuy (), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gra ...
in
Bolívar State,
Guayana Region
The Guayana Region is an administrative region of eastern Venezuela.
History
In the 1970s, after the process of forming the Political-Administrative Regions through CORDIPLAN in the government of Rafael Caldera, the Region of Guyana was f ...
, Venezuela. It has an estimated surface area of 2185
hectares
The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100- metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is ...
(equivalent to 21.85 square kilometres). It is high and about 3 km (1.9 mi) long.
Kukenan Falls, which is high, is located at the south end of the tepui.
Kukenán is located in
Canaima National Park
Canaima National Park ( es, Parque Nacional Canaima) is a park in south-eastern Venezuela that roughly occupies the same area as the Gran Sabana region. It is located in Bolívar State, reaching the borders with Brazil and Guyana.
History
Can ...
. Next to Kukenán, to the southeast, is
Mount Roraima
Mount Roraima ( es, Monte Roraima; Tepuy Roraima; Cerro Roraima pt, Monte Roraima ) is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America. It is located at the junction of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. ...
, a better known tepui. Kukenán is more difficult to climb, so it is ascended much less frequently than Mount Roraima.
Canaima National Park is also home to the highest waterfall in the world, which is located in Auyán Tepui.
Scenery on top of Kukenán provided inspiration for the 2009 film ''
Up''.
See also
*
Gran Sabana
La Gran Sabana (, en, The Great Savanna) is a region in southeastern Venezuela, part of the Guianan savanna ecoregion.
The savanna spreads into the regions of the Guiana Highlands and south-east into Bolívar State, extending further to the b ...
References
Further reading
*Kok, P.J.R., R.D. MacCulloch, D.B. Means, K. Roelants, I. Van Bocxlaer & F. Bossuyt (7 August 2012). ''Current Biology'' 22(15): R589–R590.
Tepuis_of_Venezuela
Mountains_of_Venezuela
Cliffs_of_Venezuela
Mountains_of_Bolívar_(state)
{{Venezuela-stub}.html" ;"title="
Tepuis of Venezuela
Mountains of Venezuela
Cliffs of Venezuela
Mountains of Bolívar (state)
{{Venezuela-stub}">
Tepuis of Venezuela
Mountains of Venezuela
Cliffs of Venezuela
Mountains of Bolívar (state)
{{Venezuela-stub}
Tepuis of Venezuela
Mountains of Venezuela
Cliffs of Venezuela
Mountains of Bolívar (state)
{{Venezuela-stub