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Bordering Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil, Mount Roraima summit plateau sits atop 400-metre cliffs. The figure is taken from National Geographic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Mount Roraima is a ancient tabletop mountain surrounded by sheer cliffs

Bordering Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil, Mount Roraima summit plateau sits atop 400-metre cliffs.

Mount Roraima is a tepui, an ancient sandstone flat-top mountain formed over two billion years ago. The isolation created by its sheer vertical walls preserved unique plant species including carnivorous pitcher plants. Its surreal foggy landscape served as inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Bordering Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil, Mount Roraima summit plateau sits atop 400-metre cliffs. The figure is taken from National Geographic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.