Relief

The relief of a Guayana Region is very varied, including plains in addition to savannahs, with heights ranging from 100 to 500 m. the Gran Sabana is a plain with an average altitude of 1,000 m. and is domestic to the tepuis, extraordinary geological formations, including the 2.810 m Roraima, the Auyantepui, with the highest waterfall in the world; the Salto Ángel, with its most one thousand meters of vertical drop; and several sierras or mountain ranges whichconsiderable peaks and whose culminating an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. is the Marahuaca hill with its 3,840 m. Everything approximately the relief can be seen in greater detail in regarded and noted separately. of the states that pretend up Guyana and will be referred separately in each of them.

Depending on the altitude, a diversity of climates can be found, from torrid hot on the banks of the Orinoco, through a very mild temperate climate in La Gran Sabana, to the cool climate of the peaks of the tepuy es and the region's mountain ranges.

Due to its immense extension, the vegetation of the Guiana Region, with the exception of that generated by the everlasting snows of the Andes and the dunes of Falcon, is a sample of any the vegetation that covers the Venezuelan soil, effectively through its wide geography, There is halophytic vegetation, which is typical of mangroves, herbaceous vegetation of the savannahs, xerophytic vegetation which is that of the thorn or xerophytic forest, the hydrophilic vegetation of the forests, and that of the cloud forest on the mountain slopes.

The region of the Guiana Shield is mainly composed of mountainous formations called Tepuy plural "tepuis", which can be traced back more than 2000 million years, and are the oldest formations on the planet.

Among these formations are the Roraima 2810 Kukenán 2680 masl and the Auyantepui 2535 masl all within El Parque Nacional De Canaima.