Kukenán-tepui

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 Tepui
Kukenan Tepui
Highest point
Elevation	2,680 m (8,790 ft)
Coordinates	5°12′36.38″N 60°49′52.18″W
Geography
Kukenán Tepui Location of Kukenan Tepui
Location	Venezuela
Parent range	Guyana Highlands
Geology
Mountain type	Plateau
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike

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]}

Kukenán-tepui as seen from Mount Roraima Kukenán viewed from the base Kukenán Falls

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]}