Astronaut on board ISS captured Guiana Shield and Canaima National Park, Venezuela.
Canaima National Park is a 30,000km2 park in south-eastern Venezuela that roughly occupies the same area as the Gran Sabana region. In 1994, it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as a natural reserve that has abrupt relief special and unique around the world, the tepuis. About 65% of the park is occupied by plateaus of rock called tepuis, which are a kind of table-top mountain millions of years old, with vertical walls and almost flat tops. These constitute a unique biological environment and are also of great geological interest. Their sheer cliffs and waterfalls (including Angel Falls, which is the highest waterfall in the world, at 979m create spectacular landscapes. The most famous tepuis in the park are Mount Roraima, the tallest and easiest to climb, and Auyantepui, the site of Angel Falls.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: NASA Earth’s Tweet
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