Piedra del Cocuy is a granite inselberg in Venezuela's Amazonas State, rising to about 450 meters near the point where the Rio Negro marks the tripoint of Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia. The rock's granitic composition places it among the ancient crystalline outcrops that punctuate the Amazon and Orinoco basins, isolated peaks of resistant rock left standing above the surrounding lowland rainforest after softer material eroded away around them over a vast span of geologic time. A boundary marker sits near the rock, some two kilometers from the actual triple border on an island in the Rio Negro.
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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Piedra del Cocuy (from Spanish: Cocuy Rock; Portuguese: Pedra do Cucuí) is a natural monument in Venezuela, located near the triple border of the country with Brazil and Colombia in the limits of the Amazon and the Orinoco Basins.
Wikidata: Piedra del Cocuy
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