Cloud forest: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	tropical montane forest • montane rain forest

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cloud forest atop Mount Gower

Investigate vegetation unique to cloud forests atop tepui and lowland rainforests in Guiana Highlands region

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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