Cerro Duida

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title: "Cerro Duida" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["tepuis-of-venezuela", "mountains-of-amazonas-(venezuelan-state)"] description: "Venezuelan tepui" topic_path: "general/tepuis-of-venezuela" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Duida" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Venezuelan tepui ::

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name	Cerro Duida
photo	Laesmeraldamercal.JPG
photo_caption	Cerro Duida (background) as seen from La Esmeralda
elevation_m	2358
elevation_ref
map	Venezuela
map_caption	Location in Venezuela
map_size	250
location	Amazonas, Venezuela
coordinates
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Cerro Duida, known as Yennamadi by the Ye'kuana, is a very large tepui in Amazonas state, Venezuela. It has a summit area of 1089 sqkm and an estimated slope area of 715 sqkm.

Cerro Duida shares a common base with the much smaller (but taller) Cerro Marahuaca, located off its northeastern flank, and together they form the Duida–Marahuaca Massif. Both tepuis are entirely within the bounds of Duida-Marahuaca National Park. Sandwiched between them, a massive ridge known as Cerro Petaca rises to at least 2700 m. The much lower Cerro Huachamacari, derived from a separate base, lies to the northwest of this complex.

Tyler-Duida expedition

George Henry Hamilton Tate led a major expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to Cerro Duida in 1928–1929. Although primarily a zoological expedition, much plant material was collected. These herbarium collections were studied extensively by Henry Gleason, who formally described many of the mountain's plant species in a series of papers published in 1931. This was followed by a number of important botanical explorations of Cerro Duida, first by Julian A. Steyermark in 1944 and later by Bassett Maguire in 1949 and 1950.

References

References

1. Zinck, J. A.. (2011). "Tepui Peatlands: Setting and Features". Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
2. It has an uneven and heavily inclined plateau, rising from highs of around {{convert. 1300. –. 1400. m. ft. 2358. m. ft. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume 1. Introduction.]]'' Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. pp. 1–61.
3. (1968). "A new species of ''Elosia'' (Amphibia, Salientia) from Mt. Duida, Venezuela". American Museum Novitates.
4. Frost, Darrel R.. (2015). "''Dischidodactylus duidensis'' (Rivero, 1968)". American Museum of Natural History.
5. Huber, O. (1995). History of botanical exploration. In: P.E. Berry, B.K. Holst & K. Yatskievych (eds.) ''[[Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume 1. Introduction.]]'' Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. pp. 63–95.
6. Gleason, H.A. (May 1931). Botanical results of the Tyler-Duida Expedition. ''Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club'' '''58'''(5): 277–344. {{JSTOR. 2997213
7. Gleason, H.A. (June 1931). Botanical results of the Tyler-Duida Expedition. ''Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club'' '''58'''(6): 345–404. {{JSTOR. 2480734
8. Gleason, H.A. (October 1931). Botanical results of the Tyler-Duida Expedition. ''Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club'' '''58'''(7): 405–464. {{JSTOR. 2480424
9. Gleason, H.A. (November 1931). Botanical results of the Tyler-Duida Expedition. ''Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club'' '''58'''(8): 465–506. {{JSTOR. 2480621
10. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume 1. Introduction.]]'' Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. pp. 97–160.

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