Mount Roraima
Roraima is the highest tepuy on the triple border of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana. It is around 2,800 m tall. Its name is derived from 'Roroi-ma,' which in Pemon means 'big blue-green.' The only way visitors can climb to the top is from the Gran Sabana side, in Venezuela.Photo: Paolostefano1412, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: M M, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,810 metres
- Description: High plateau in South America
- Also known as: “Cerro Roraima”, “Cerrororaima”, “Marco da Tríplice Fronteira”, “Monte Roraima”, “Mount Boraima”, “Mount Rorima”, “Mt. Roraima”, “Pico do Monte Roraíma”, “Pico do Roraima”, “Roraima mountain”, “Roraima Tepui”, “Roraima Tepuy”, “Roraima-tepui”, and “Roroima”
- Inscription: “BV-0”
Mount Roraima
- Categories: mountain, tepui, historic site, geographical marker, and landform
- Location: Gran Sabana Municipality, La Gran Sabana, Bolívar, Guayana, Venezuela, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.2019° or 5° 12′ 7″ northLongitude
-60.7376° or 60° 44′ 15″ westElevation
2,810 metres (9,219 feet)Open location code
67QX6726+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3773469438OpenStreetMap feature
historic=boundary_stoneOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yiddish—“Mount Roraima” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Roraima-Tepui”
- Arabic: “جبل روراميا”
- Arabic: “جبل رورايما”
- Armenian: “Ռորայիմա”
- Azerbaijani: “Rorayma dağı”
- Belarusian: “Рарайма”
- Bulgarian: “Връх Рораима”
- Bulgarian: “Рораима”
- Bulgarian: “Рорайма”
- Catalan: “Mont Roraima”
- Cebuano: “Monte Roraima”
- Chinese: “罗赖马山”
- Croatian: “Planina Roraima”
- Croatian: “Roraima”
- Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Guyany”
- Czech: “Roraima”
- Dutch: “Roraima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل رورايما”
- Esperanto: “Monto Rorajmo”
- Estonian: “Roraima mägi”
- Finnish: “Monte Roraima”
- Finnish: “Mount Roraima”
- French: “mont Roraima”
- French: “Mont Roraima”
- French: “Monte Roraima”
- French: “Tepuy Roraima”
- Galician: “Monte Roraima”
- Georgian: “მაგიდა-მთა რორაიმა”
- Georgian: “რორაიმა”
- Georgian: “რორაიმის მთა”
- German: “Cerro Roraima”
- German: “Monte Roraima”
- German: “Mount Roraima”
- German: “Roraima Tafelberg”
- German: “Roraima-Tepui”
- Greek: “Όρος Ροράιμα”
- Hebrew: “הר רוריימה”
- Hindi: “रोराइमा पर्वत”
- Hungarian: “Roraima-hegy”
- Ido: “Monto Roraima”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Roraima”
- Italian: “Monte Roraima”
- Italian: “Roraima”
- Japanese: “ロライマ山”
- Kazakh: “Рорайма тауы”
- Korean: “호라이마산”
- Ladin: “Mont Roraima”
- Latvian: “Roraima (kalns)”
- Latvian: “Roraima”
- Lithuanian: “Roraimos kalnas”
- Malayalam: “റൊറൈമ പർവ്വതം”
- Mingrelian: “რორაიმა”
- Northern Frisian: “Roraima-Tepui”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cerro Roraima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monte Roraima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Roraima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pico do Roraima”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fjellet Roraima”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monte Roraima”
- Norwegian: “Monte Roraima”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Roraima”
- Persian: “کوه رورایما”
- Polish: “Roraima”
- Portuguese: “Monte Roraima”
- Russian: “Рорайма”
- Scots: “Moont Roraima”
- Serbian: “Планина Рораима”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Roraima”
- Slovenian: “Roraima”
- Spanish: “Cerro Roraima”
- Spanish: “Monte Roraima”
- Spanish: “Pico do Roraima”
- Spanish: “Roraima-tepui”
- Spanish: “Roraima”
- Spanish: “Roraimatepui”
- Spanish: “Tepuy Roraima”
- Swahili: “Mlima Roraima”
- Swedish: “Cerro Roraima”
- Swedish: “Monte Roraima”
- Swedish: “Mount Roraima”
- Swedish: “Roraima-Tepui”
- Swedish: “Roraima”
- Swedish: “Roraimamassivet”
- Thai: “เขาโรราอิมา”
- Thai: “เขาโรไรมา”
- Ukrainian: “Гора Рорайма”
- Ukrainian: “Рорайма”
- Venetian: “Roraima”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Roraima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Roraima”
- Yiddish: “בארג ראריימע”
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