Uaipán-tepui, also spelled Waipán, is a
tepui
A tepui , or tepuy (), is a member of a family of table-top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the ...
in
Bolívar state,
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 ...
. It is a southern satellite peak of the vast
Auyán Massif, with a maximum elevation of around . Its mostly forested summit plateau has an area of . The mountain's slope area has been estimated at .
[Huber, O. (1995). Geographical and physical features. In: P.E. Berry, B.K. Holst & K. Yatskievych (eds.) '' Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume 1. Introduction.'' Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. pp. 1–61.]
See also
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Distribution of ''Heliamphora''
References
Tepuis of Venezuela
Mountains of Venezuela
Mountains of Bolívar (state)
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