Murisipán-tepui

Murisipán-tepui, also spelled Murosipán or Murochiopán, is one of the four main tepuis of the Los Testigos chain in Bolívar, Venezuela.^[1] Looking west to east, it is the second major peak of the massif and is connected to the next two—Tereke-yurén-tepui and Kamarkawarai-tepui—by a common basement (the westernmost peak, Aparamán-tepui, is relatively isolated by comparison). Murisipán-tepui has an elevation of around 2,350 metres (7,700 ft) and a summit area of 5 km² (1.9 sq mi). The mountain's mostly bare summit plateau has a small, seasonal lagoon near its centre.^[1]

Murisipán-tepui
Murisipán-tepui Location in Venezuela
Highest point
Elevation	2,350 m (7,710 ft)[1]
Coordinates	05°52′11″N 62°04′32″W
Geography
Location	Bolívar, Venezuela

In his 1978 book, La Vegetación del Mundo Perdido, Charles Brewer-Carías applied the name Murochiopán-tepui to a smaller lateral peak of Aparamán-tepui (05°52′32″N 62°06′48″W), calling the high summit immediately east of it Tereke Yurén-tepui and the tiny peak east of that, Tucuy-wo-cuyén-tepui. Subsequent authors have generally used Murisipán-tepui (or its variants) for the second of the four main peaks, and Tereke-yurén-tepui for the third, with the lateral mountain of Aparamán-tepui going unnamed.^[1]

The frog species Anomaloglossus murisipanensis is only known from Murisipán-tepui.^[2]

See also

• Distribution of Heliamphora