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The wall of the Upuigma Tepui rock shelter in Venezuela’s Canaima National Park is covered with pictograms painted in red and yellow ocher. The artists who created these images may have been inspired by the region’s tepuis, or tabletop mountains, one of which rises in the background.
Where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet, Mount Roraima rises some 9,200 feet above sea level. It is the highest of the tepuis, or tabletop mountains, that loom over the otherworldly landscape
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