page_title: Distribution of Heliamphora
section_title: Uplands
hierarchical_section_title: Distribution of Heliamphora / Eastern range / Uplands
caption_attribution_description: English: 360° panoramic view of tepuis from Kavanayen in Gran Sabana, Venezuela. Español: Vista panorámica de tepuis desde Kavanayén en la Gran Sabana, Venezuela.
context_page_description: The natural range of the carnivorous plant genus Heliamphora is restricted to the southern Venezuelan states of Amazonas and Bolívar, and to adjacent portions of northern Brazil and western Guyana, an area corresponding to the western part of the Guayana Shield. These plants are largely confined to the summits and foothills of the sandstone table-top mountains of the region, known as tepuis.
  The genus has a highly disjunct distribution spread across two major groups of tepuis: the western range in Amazonas and the eastern range in Bolívar. The western range can be further subdivided into two complexes of neighbouring tepuis. The more southerly of these consists of Cerro de la Neblina, Cerro Aracamuni, and Cerro Avispa, and supports four Heliamphora species. The more northerly group of the western range, home to only two species, includes the massive Cerro Duida and neighbouring Cerro Huachamacari and Cerro Marahuaca. The remaining 17–19 species are native to the eastern range, which includes the Aprada Massif, Auyán Massif, Chimantá Massif, Eastern Tepuis chain, Los Testigos chain, and a number of outlying tepuis.
context_section_description: The uplands of the Venezuelan Guayana are regarded as those areas with an elevation of approximately 500–1500 m, with higher elevations being highland and lower ones lowland.
  The Gran Sabana (literally "Great Savannah") is a vast area of tropical uplands covering nearly 30,000 km², which surrounds many of the tepuis of the eastern range. It gradually rises in elevation from 750 m in the south to 1450 m in the north. The rocky uplands of Sierra de Lema and Sierra Senkopirén lie to the north and northwest of the Gran Sabana and surround the Auyán Massif. They have an elevational range of around 700 to 1650 m. Cerro Venamo is a sandstone mountain near the border between Venezuela and Guyana, at the northeastern tip of the Gran Sabana. With a height of 1600 m it falls somewhere between an upland and a true highland area. As with many other localities in the Guayana Highlands, the name Cerro Venamo has been inconsistently applied to a number of adjacent areas.
  Heliamphora ciliata is endemic to these upland areas and H. heterodoxa may also be (though see Ptari Tepui).
caption: A typical landscape of the Gran Sabana as seen from Kavanayén. The tepuis in the distance are (moving left): Sororopán Tepui, Ptari Tepui, Moná Tepui, and far off in the distance, Kamarkawarai Tepui and the rest of the Los Testigos chain.
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