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Geoparks

Venezuela with a beautiful nature has 43 national parks. Briefly description is fallowas:

Andes National Park

Almost one million hectares of the Venezuelan Andes has been granted national park status; there are eight parks in total of which the most popular are Sierra Nevada and Sierra de La Culata. Within the park are the country's highest peaks; Pico Bolívar 4,981m, Pico Humboldt 4,942m, Pico La Concha 4,920m and Pico Espejo 4,765m, the latter of which has the longest and highest cable car in the world. La Culata National Park has an area of 200,400ha, with the curious páramo de piedras blancas at its highest point. The remaining Andean national parks are Dinira, Guaramacal, Páramos Batallón y La Negra, Chorro El Indio, El Tamá and Tapó-Caparo.

Margarita National Park

Margarita has two national parks: Cerro El Copey and Laguna de la Restinga, and three natural monuments (small parks): Cerro Matasiete y Guayamurí, La Laguna de las Marites, and Las Tetas de María Guevara. All protect a range of habitats and are home to various species of wildlife.

Amazonas National Park

The four national parks of Amazonas (Yapacana, Duida-Marahuaca, Parima-Tapirapecó and Serranía La Neblina) together protect 6 million hectares of the region.

Canaima National Park is the sixth largest national park in the world. Covering some 3 million hectares and with an altitude range of 400 - 2,400m, the park encompasses the Laguna Canaima, the Carrao river basin, the mountains of Sierra de Lema, the Gran Sabana and the Angel Falls. The landscape of the park is dramatic and contrasting. Massive geological and altitudinal variation has produced a huge range of habitats within which flourishes an exuberant diversity of flora. The savanna varies from dry grasslands to wetlands interspersed with moriche palms.

Canaima National Park