Canaima National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Canaima) is a park in the southeast of Venezuela.

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Canaima National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Canaima) is a park in the southeast of Venezuela, on the border with Brazil and Guyana. The area of the park is about 30,000 km². It is located in the state of Bolivar and occupies approximately the same area as the Gran Sabana Natural Park.
The park was opened on June 13, 1962 and is the second largest in the country, second only to Parima-Tapirapeco. In 1994, Canaima was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The main attraction and value of the park are the tepui (flat-topped mountains) located there.
The park's most famous tepui are Roraima (the highest and easiest to climb) and Auyantepui, home to the famous Angel Falls, the highest in the world. Tepuis are sandstones that formed during an era when South America and Africa were part of the same supercontinent.

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