A tepui, or tepuy, is one of a family of table top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil. The word tepui means house of the gods in the language of the Pemon, the indigenous people of the Gran Sabana where many of them stand. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A tepui (), or tepuy (Spanish: [teˈpuj]), is a member of a family of table-top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil.
Shaped By: Erosion, Lead and sections
Throughout the course of the history of Earth, the plateau began to erode and fragment about 300 million years ago (mya), and about 70 mya the tepuis were formed from the remaining monadnocks.
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