roraima trek

Mount Roraima (known as Cerro Roraima in Spanish, Monte Roraima in Portuguese), marks the border between Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana, although more than three quarters of the mountain is in Venezuelan territory. It is the highest mountain in Guyana, but Venezuela and Brazil have higher mountains. The triple border point on the summit is at 5°12′08N, 60°44′07W.

With a peak at 2,810 metres (9,219 feet), the mountain is the highest of Venezuela’s distinctive table-top mountains, known as tepuis.

Roraima lies on the Guiana Shield in the southeastern corner of Venezuela’s 30,000 km² Canaima National Park, which is roughly located in the Gran Sabana region. The tabletop mountains of the park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to the Precambrian Era, some two billion years ago.

The average height of the plateau is about 2,500 metres (8,200 feet), making it the highest point for distance of 549.44 kilometres (341.48 miles) in any direction. The nearest peak that is taller is Cerro Marahuaca, to the west-southwest.

Despite the fact the steep sides of the plateau make it difficult to access, it was the first major tepui to be climbed: Sir Everard im Thurn walked up a forested ramp in December 1884 to scale the strangely wind-and-water sculpted plateau. This is the same route hikers take today.

It is thought that the reports from early Victorian expeditions to the mountain inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write his classic adventure yarn, The Lost World, in 1912 – now made into countless films.

Since long before the arrival of European explorers in Venezuela the mountain has held a special significance for the indigenous people of the region and it is central to many of their myths and legends. The Pemon Indians of the Gran Sabana see Roraima as the stump of a mighty tree that once held all the fruits and tuberous vegetables in the world. Felled by one of their ancestors, the tree crashed to the ground, unleashing a terrible flood. “Roroi” in the Pemon language means blue-green and “ma” means great.

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