Investigate vegetation unique to cloud forests atop tepui and lowland rainforests in Guiana Highlands region
Tepuis are a characteristic landform of the Guiana Highlands region.
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NARRATOR: This high mesa is called a tepui. Tepuis are islandlike rock formations topped with cloud forests. Primitive plants dominate the landscape. Half of the species found here grow only on tepuis and in the lowland rainforests immediately below.