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Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth (lemmy.nz)
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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

That waterfall on the far left - was this the inspiration for Up?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

The waterfall from the movie is Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for finding this!

[-] N0MAD@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Short answer, maybe.

They travel to a tepui in Venezuela but I'd argue it looks more like Auyán-tepui than Mount Roraima

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