Jasper Creek (

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: ''Quebrada de Jaspe''; in the local

Pemon language The Pemon language (or in Spanish) is an Indigenous language of the Cariban family spoken by some 30,000 Pemon people, in Venezuela's Southeast, particularly in the Canaima National Park, in the Roraima State of Brazil and in Guyana G ...

''Kako Parú'') is the name of a river and a series of cascades and waterfalls in

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

. The name ''jasper'' is derived from the fact that the water flows over a smooth bedrock of mostly red and black

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. The river is located in the

Gran Sabana Municipality The Gran Sabana Municipality is one of the 11 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Bolívar and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of ...

of Bolívar State, Venezuelan Guayana. They can be reached from the town of

Santa Elena de Uairén Santa Elena de Uairén () is a small Venezuelan city (29,795 inhabitants in 2006) in the state of Bolívar State (Venezuela), Bolívar near the border with Brazil and Guyana. It was founded by Lucas Fernández Peña in 1923. The city's name origin ...

Conservation status

This is a

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in the eastern sector of

Canaima National Park Canaima National Park () is a park in south-eastern Venezuela that roughly occupies the same area as the La Gran Sabana, Gran Sabana region. It is located in Bolívar State (Venezuela), Bolívar State, reaching the borders with Brazil and Guya ...

protected by law.

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Waterfalls of Venezuela Canaima National Park Rivers of Bolívar (state) {{Venezuela-river-stub

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