Canaima National Park was made into a park on 12 June 1962.
As early as 1990, the countries in the Amazonian Cooperation Treaty decided to make this park bigger so it would meet Monte Roraima National Park in Brazil.
In 1994, the Canaima National Park was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The International Union for Conservation of Nature looked at this park in 2017, and it listed Canaima National Park as an area of significant concern: It said it was doing a bad job of protecting the living things in the park.
Canaima National Park is the second largest park in Venezuela, after Parima-Tapirapecó, and it is the sixth biggest national park in the world. It is about the same size as Belgium or Maryland. The park protects part of the Guayanan Highlands moist forests.
The most famous tepuis in the park are Mount Roraima and Auyantepui. The tepuis are sandstone. They are so old that, when they first existed, South America and Africa were part of the same big continent.
Indigenous people live in the park. They are called the Pemon Indians.
The park has only a few roads to towns. To travel inside the park, most people walk, canoe, or use small airplanes.
Animals
Canaima has many animals. Among the species found are:
Canaima National Park is among one of several dozen regions in Venezuela that has been identified as an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBAs) by BirdLife International, a global cooperative of non-governmental organizations focused on the conservation of the world’s birds and their natural habitats.
Plants
There are over 300 different species of plants that only live in La Gran Sabana. The park has carnivorous plants in it. These are plants that eat animals, usually insects.
The park has the entire watershed of the right bank of the Caroní River and two of the highest waterfalls in the world, Angel Falls and the Kukenán. It also has many lower waterfalls.
Land forms
Devil's Canyon in the Canaima National Park
The only land forms are the tepuis. These are plateaus. The tops of the plateus have many plants and animals. These plateaus are between 1.5 and 2 billion years, which makes them one of the oldest formations in the world.
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