Mount Venamo


Mount Venamo is a mountain in South America that forms part of the international boundary between Guyana and Venezuela. The mountain is high and is the westernmost point in Guyana. The mountain is named after the Venamo River, which flows nearby. It is often wrongly synonymized with Waukauyengtipu, a different tabletop mountain within the territory of Guyana, situated approximately 25km southeast of Mount Venamo.

Nomenclatural inaccuracies

Mount Venamo is often synonymized with Waukauyengtipu mountain in Guyana, although given the scarcity of information regarding the massif and few recorded attempts on the exploration of its areas this claim is difficult to legitimize. Most of the information about the true location and elevation of Cerro Venamo are taken from the results of Julian A. Steyermark's and Galfrid Dunsterville's botanical exploration of the mountain in Venezuela in 1963 and 1964. Due to the assumptions regarding the geography of the massif having been made with only the instrumentation available at that time, some information, especially its area and actual elevation proves to be inaccurate when compared to modern satellite data.