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Venezuela topographic maps
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Guiana Highlands
Venezuela > Bolivar State > Municipio Angostura
The Guiana Shield (French: Plateau des Guyanes, Bouclier guyanais; Dutch: Hoogland van Guyana, Guianaschild; Portuguese: Planalto das Guianas, Escudo das Guianas; Spanish: Escudo guayanés) is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate. It is a 1.7 billion-year-old Precambrian geological formation in…
Average elevation: 524 m
Cueva del Guácharo
Venezuela > Monagas State > Municipio Caripe > La Laguna > Corral Viejo
Average elevation: 1,319 m
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Cubagua Island
Venezuela > Nueva Esparta State > Municipio Tubores
The island is 9.2 by 3.6 km (5.7 by 2.2 mi) in size, an elliptical shape with the longer axis east-west. Its area is 22.438 km2 (9 sq mi). The coast consists of some beaches as well as cliffs from 5 to 7 metres (16 to 23 ft) high in the south and from 20 to 24 metres (66 to 79 ft) high in the north. The…
Average elevation: 6 m
Sierra Nevada National Park
The vegetation of the park is representative of the Andean cloud forests, mostly trees, with well-developed undergrowth layers and numerous epiphytes and endemic species. At altitudes above 3,000 m, typical moorland vegetation develops, consisting of a large number of species of Espeletia. It also presents…
Average elevation: 2,103 m
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Cerro Sarisariñama
Venezuela > Bolivar State > Municipio Sucre
Cerro Sarisariñama is a tepui, a flat-topped mountain in Jaua-Sarisariñama National Park at the far south-west of Bolívar State, Venezuela, near the border with Brazil. Its altitude range is between 300 m (980 ft) and 2,350 m (7,710 ft). The name of the mountain originates from the tale of the local…
Average elevation: 1,297 m
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Yaracuy State
Average annual temperatures and rainfall are high with variations depending on the altitude: the climate is temperate at the top of its mountains, the subtropical climate in the high valleys of the Sierra de Nirgua; and in most of the state the tropical climate prevails, with average annual temperatures of…
Average elevation: 453 m
Nueva Esparta State
Together, the three islands of the State bring together magnificent beaches, wonderful mangroves and other landscapes that make it a true island paradise. Margarita, the largest of them, has a maximum elevation on Copey Hill (900 meters above sea level) and includes the Macanao mountain core to the west. Coche…
Average elevation: 15 m
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Parroquia Mariano Picon Salas
Venezuela > Merida State > Municipio Libertador
Average elevation: 1,780 m
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San Esteban National Park
Venezuela > Carabobo State > Municipio Puerto Cabello
Average elevation: 457 m
Barinas State
[[Archivo:Osoid_culture.svg|link=https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Osoid_culture.svg%7Cleft%7Cthumb%7CExtent of the Orinoco culture from 1000 BC to 1550 AD. In 500, the Orinoco people built the first mounds and causeways of Llanos]] The first known inhabitants of Barinas were the peoples of the Osoid…
Average elevation: 365 m
Parroquia Presidente Páez
Venezuela > Merida State > Municipio Alberto Adriani
Average elevation: 106 m
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Parroquia Francisco Eugenio Bustamante
Venezuela > Zulia State > Municipio Maracaibo
Average elevation: 57 m
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Mérida
Venezuela > Merida State > Municipio Libertador
This city sits on a plateau nestled in the valley of the Chama River, which runs from end to end. The town of Mérida is located at an altitude of 1,600 metres (5,200 feet). As background on the horizon rises the country's highest summit: the Pico Bolívar with an altitude of 4,981 metres (16,342 feet).
Average elevation: 2,660 m
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San Fernando de Apure
Venezuela > Apure State > Municipio San Fernando
The relief of San Fernando is totally a plain. Natural land elevations do not exist, and the visibility of the horizon can reach up to 10 km. Some high barriers can be artificially by engineer installations for the prevention of floods. The city is established on humid grounds, and for this reason civil…
Average elevation: 45 m
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Cerro Colorado
Venezuela > Miranda State > Municipio Zamora > Parroquia Guatire
Average elevation: 607 m
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Santa Rosa Sur
Venezuela > Portuguesa State > Municipio José Vicente de Unda
Average elevation: 1,139 m
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Cerro Delgado Chalbaud
Venezuela > Amazonas State > Municipio Autónomo Alto Orinoco
Average elevation: 932 m
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Valencia
Venezuela > Carabobo State > Municipio Valencia
The elevation of the city is 520 metres (1,710 feet).
Average elevation: 534 m
Carabobo State
Most of Carabobo State – 75% – is mountainous and part of the Coastal Range. The highest elevations are found throughout the northern part, in the western part of the state and in the southern part of Lake Valencia.
Average elevation: 469 m
Anzoategui State
The vegetation of the Anzoátegui State is typical temperate. It is largely determined by altitude, climate and season of the year, where areas of snow-covered scrub, cujíes and small southern species alternate. It also has a tree called caderoms, this includes resistant or environmentally adapted varieties.
Average elevation: 156 m
Zulia State
These orogenic processes made the Perijá mountain range suffer a less intense uplift than the Andes and, therefore, its structural pattern and relief are more moderate. Likewise, the Ziruma mountain range develops towards the southeast, considered as a pre-mountain range system of relatively lower altitudes,…
Average elevation: 434 m
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Tachira State
The climate presents great variations, mainly due to the modifications by the height, in populations of the route to the plain, in the piedmont (El Piñal, San Joaquin de Navay among others), can reach temperatures of 30 °C like in the Pan-American route (La Fría, Coloncito). In the capital, San Cristóbal,…
Average elevation: 925 m
Sierra del Perijá National Park
The park includes a portion of the Serranía de Perijá mountains, which rises above the southwestern area of Lake Maracaibo, a large brackish bay connected to the Gulf of Venezuela. The highest elevation is Pico Tétar at 3,500 metres (11,500 ft). It covers an area of 295,288 hectares (729,670 acres).
Average elevation: 496 m
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