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Natural Wonders of Venezuela: The 4 Most Beautiful Places to Visit

4 places in the atlas

Venezuela spans an extraordinary range of landscapes: the Andes in the west, the Caribbean coast and islands in the north, the grassy Orinoco llanos teeming with wildlife, and — most singularly — the Guiana Highlands in the south, where ancient flat-topped tepuis rise sheer from the jungle. From the summit of one of them, Auyán-tepui, plunges Angel Falls, the highest waterfall on the planet. The tepuis are among the oldest rock formations on Earth, evolutionary islands crowned with plants found nowhere else. Below are the 4 natural wonders of Venezuela in the atlas — the most beautiful places to build a trip around, each with what makes it remarkable, when to go, and how to reach it. Best overall time: The wet season (roughly June–November) for the fullest waterfalls; the drier months (December–April) for easier trekking and clearer skies.

Angel Falls, Canaima National Park, Venezuela

Angel Falls

Canaima National Park, Venezuela

The tallest waterfall on Earth — a ribbon of water that plunges 979 metres from the rim of a flat-topped tepui, so high it dissolves into mist long before it reaches the ground.

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Boats moored off the beach at Gran Roque in the Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela, with the island's hill behind

Los Roques Archipelago

Caribbean Sea, about 128 km north of La Guaira, Venezuela

A Caribbean national park of some 350 islands, cays and sandbanks around a shallow turquoise lagoon, ringed by two barrier reefs and some 1,500 km² of coral reef, protected as a national park since 1972.

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Rippled sand dunes of Médanos de Coro National Park under a blue sky with distant hills, Falcón, Venezuela

Médanos de Coro

Médanos Isthmus, beside the city of Coro, Falcón state, Venezuela

A sea of wind-sculpted sand dunes up to 40 metres high on the isthmus north of Coro — Venezuela's desert, constantly reshaped by the wind, a short drive from a colonial city.

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Mount Roraima, Canaima National Park, Venezuela

Mount Roraima

Canaima National Park, Venezuela

A vast, cloud-wrapped table mountain rising in sheer 400-metre cliffs above the jungle — a 'lost world' plateau of black rock, endemic plants, and waterfalls spilling into the void.

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