Cerro Autana

Amazonas · Venezuela

Cerro Autana, Venezuela
Photo: Ldberriz, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
December to April, dry season river travel
Accessibility
not-accessible
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A slender 1,300-meter tepui rising alone from the Amazonas rainforest, sacred to the Piaroa people as the stump of the tree of life. A cave system pierces the tower clean through near its summit, and river expeditions from Puerto Ayacucho approach it along the Sipapo and Autana rivers.

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