ChicoSuave comments on 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

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

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

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 point 19 minutes ago

Thank you for finding this!

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[–] N0MAD@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day 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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