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Kukenan, also known as Matawi or Cuquenan, is a tepui, a flat-topped table mountain, in Bolivar State in Venezuela's Guayana region, part of the Guiana Highlands. It rises to 2,680 meters and is about 3 kilometers long, covering an estimated summit area of 2,185 hectares. Kukenan Falls, one of the tallest waterfalls in the region at 674 meters, drops from the tepui's southern end, and the mountain has been closed to climbers since 1997 for environmental and safety reasons.

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