Kavanayen

Kavanayén, known officially as Santa Teresita de Kavanayén, is an indigenous village inhabited mainly by the Pemons. It is located in the Canaima National Park in the Gran Sabana Municipality of Bolívar, in the Upper Caroní River.

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Type: Village with 1,500 residents
Description: village in Bolívar, Venezuela
Also known as: “Kanavayen” and “Kavanayén”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kavanayén Airport.

Kavanayén Airport

Aerodrome

Kavanayen Airport is an airstrip serving Kavanayén, an isolated village in the Bolívar State of Venezuela. The village is on the edge of a mesa, and the airstrip parallels the edge, 300 metres north of a 200 metres drop.

Kavanayen

Category: locality
Location: Gran Sabana Municipality, Bolívar, Guayana, Venezuela, South America
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Latitude

5.5857° or 5° 35′ 9″ north

Longitude

-61.75191° or 61° 45′ 7″ west

Population

1,500

Elevation

1,140 metres (3,740 feet)

IATA airport code

KAV

United Nations Location Code

VE KAV

Open location code

67QWH6PX+76

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8663690807

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

3639049

Wikidata ID

Q5958702

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Spanish—“Kavanayen” goes by many names.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kavanayen”. Photo: Sotamxelyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.