- ID
- 4042135
- Banca
- PROGESP- UFRR
- Órgão
- UFRR
- Ano
- 2015
- Provas
- Disciplina
- Inglês
- Assuntos
Roraima is an interesting mountain located in the Guiana
Highlands. The peak actually shares the border with
Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana, but the mountain is almost
always approached from the Venezuela side. The Brazil
and Guyana sides are much more difficult. The mountain's
highest point is Maverick Rock which is at and on the
Venezuela side (though some other sources may differ on
this). The Guiana Highlands is a very unusual mountain
range covering parts of Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana,
Suriname and French Guiana. The highlands are made of
ancient sedimentary rock that is over two billion years old
and are some of the oldest sedimentary rocks on the
planet.
The mountain is known as a Tepui, which describes a flattopped mountain with vertical sides. Many waterfalls spill
off Roraima, and the other Tepuis; nearly everyone has
heard of Angel Falls, which spills off another nearby Tepui.
There are many interesting plants that grow on the summit,
including many carnivorous plants, i.e., ones that eat
insects. There is little soil on top because the constant rains
wash it away.
Monte Roraima was the first of the Tepuis to be climbed
and the credit goes to English botanist Everard Im Thurn
on an expedition sponsored by the Royal Geographical
Society in 1884. It was his subsequent lectures in England,
that are believed to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
book 'The Lost World'.
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