Kukenán-tepui

Mountain in Venezuela

Kukenán, also known as Matawi or Cuquenán, is a tepui in Bolívar State, Guayana Region, Venezuela. It has an estimated surface area of 2185 hectares (equivalent to 21.85 square kilometres). It is 2,680 metres (8,790 ft) high and about 3 km (1.9 mi) long. Kukenan Falls, which is 674 m (2,211 ft) high, is located at the south end of the tepui.^[1]

Kukenán is located in Canaima National Park. Next to Kukenán, to the southeast, is Mount Roraima, a better known tepui. Kukenán is more difficult to climb, so it is ascended much less frequently than Mount Roraima.^[2]

Canaima National Park is also home to the highest waterfall in the world, which is located in Auyán Tepui.^[3]

Scenery on top of Kukenán provided inspiration for the 2009 film Up. ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Gran Sabana

References

1. Kukenaam, Salto Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. World Waterfall Database.
2. Kukenan Tepui. SummitPost. 24 July 2007.
3. "Kukenan Tepui : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost". www.summitpost.org.

Further reading

• Kok, P.J.R., R.D. MacCulloch, D.B. Means, K. Roelants, I. Van Bocxlaer & F. Bossuyt (7 August 2012). "Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2013. Current Biology 22(15): R589–R590. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.034 ["supplementary information" (PDF).^{[permanent dead link]}]^{[permanent dead link]}