A tepui, also spelled tepuy, is one of a family of table top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, chiefly in Venezuela, western Guyana and northern Brazil. The word tepui comes from the language of the Pemon, the indigenous people of the Gran Sabana who inhabit the region, and means house of the gods.
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A tepui (), or tepuy (Spanish: [teˈpuj]), is a member of a family of table-top mountains or mesas found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil
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Because of their great age, some tepuis exhibit surface features and caves typical of karst topography, formed in more water-soluble rocks such as limestone.
Caused By: Plate Tectonics, Article text
Throughout the course of the history of Earth, the plateau began to erode and fragment about 300 million years ago (mya), and about 70 mya the tepuis were formed from the remaining monadnocks.
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