Feel how huge is the nature vs. man’s littleness, feel the energy and the desire to know all this magnificent scenery.
Canaima or Kanaima, in the voice of the indigenous Pemon ethnicity, Caribbean Amerindian group living in the area, has been given as a name to one of the most important National Parks of Planet Earth. The word Kanaima for Arekunas means a very evil and feared being that represents all tribulations of those who inhabited this region and emerged to avenge the cruel behavior that their ancestors, the Caribbean Indians lived.
This is a beautiful park adorned by the lagoon with the same name and in which one of the things that stands out is the color of water, which is completely red, because of the large amount of minerals it contains. Also the sand is a soft pink color, cause the effect of quartz. Canaima houses the world’s tallest single waterfall, the 979 meter high Salto Angel (Angel Falls), named after the pilot Jimmie Angel, who discovered it in 1937. The adventurous North American pilot over flew it on the Flamingo in October, and the airplane’s mechanical problems forced him, his wife and two other passengers on a lucky landing on the top of the Auyantepuy (2.500 m). Unscathed, they decided to descend the course of the Carrao river and after 11 days managed to return to civilization.
Canaima National Park lies on the Macizo de Guayana, one of the oldest geological formations in the world and was included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List in 1994. The Park covers 80.000 km2 and is characterized by the fascinating “tepuys” (Pemon word for mountains), sort of mesas that, at the end of the XIX century, enthralled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who magnificently described them in his novel The Lost World.
Source:- WTM
