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Bolivar was born, Bolivar estate was the province of Guayana. This is a colonial term. The Spanish Guayana was simply the portion of the shield under control of the Spaniards until the 18th century, to distinguish it from the portions controlled by the British, French, Duch
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Highlands part sake, I have corrected the information that Pico da Neblina is the highest tepui - it is not a tepui and is located far from where tepuis are found, though it is the highest point in the Guiana Shield. The highest tepui is Monte Roraima.
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Orinoco. But I think this usage belongs in historical writings about the era of Western European exploration and colonialism. Today, the AmapĂĄ and Suriname are not referred to as
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British and Dutch Guiana have been, and French Guiana still is. Venezuelans often mention the region roughly corresponding to their
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Geologically (which seems to be the main thrust of this article), the Guiana Shield or Craton extends far into Brazil, to the margin of the rift valley in which the Amazon flows. The craton includes more territory within Brazil than in Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana combined; it also includes
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Neblina, or the sandstone plateau that forms the western portion of what is known in Brasil as Serra do Imeri. Cerro Neblina/Western Serra do Imeri is a highly eroded sandstone plateau, with a very rugged edge along the Venezuelan-Brasil border, that certainly does not
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Venezuela and Brazil extend to other regions as well, and in the case of Brazil the Guiana Shield is just a very small part of this vast country with many different formations, landscapes and climates. Moreover, the Shield is located far away from both countries' most
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Britain(Which is like 1/3 of Venezuela), 2) the somewhat agreed upon line(by both i.e. today's border) and 3) The extreme border territory claimed by Venezuela(which is half of Guyana.)
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