Tours to this location often start with boatrides down the Carrao and Churun Rivers, though it is also visible from a distance on Raton Island.  
Tours to this location often start with boatrides down the Carrao and Churun Rivers, though it is also visible from a distance on Raton Island.  One of the primary attractions of the Canaima National Park, explorers associated with it include Aleksandrs Laime and Ernesto Sancho de la Cruz.  It was the (*) pilot of the El Rio Caroni, though, who crash landed his plane and then had to make an eleven day long descent near their path, who is their namesake to the western world.  Their name in the native Pemon language, Kerepakupai Meru, was advocated by Hugo Chavez.  Located on the face of Auyan-tepui, they directly feed the Kerep River, though much of the water is vaporized upon contact with the rocks over 3,000 feet below their summit.  For 10 points, name this Venezuelan waterfall, the tallest in the world.
Tours to this location often start with boatrides down the Carrao and Churun Rivers, though it is also visible from a distance on Raton Island.  
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