Venezuela

A steep 2,200-metre mountain range rising directly behind Caracas, covered in cloud forest and crossed by the Teleférico de Caracas cable car, forming the dramatic green backdrop and wilderness escape to the Venezuelan capital.

The largest inhabited island in the Los Roques Archipelago, a federal dependency of Venezuela of approximately 350 islands, cays and islets with pristine Caribbean coral reefs and turquoise shallow waters.

A national park in Falcón State protecting one of the largest and most dramatic desert dune systems in South America, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site together with the colonial city of Coro in 1993.

The highest tepui in the Pacaraima chain, a flat-topped mountain straddling Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana with 400–1,000 m cliffs and a summit plateau at 2,810 m, famous for its endemic flora and fauna.

Venezuela's highest mountain at 4,978 m, in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida near the city of Mérida; named after Simón Bolívar and reached by the Mérida cable car to Pico Espejo followed by a rocky scramble to the summit.

The world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall at 979 m, plunging from the edge of Auyán-tepui in Venezuela's Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.