The Most Beautiful Places in Venezuela
8 places · updated 13 October 2026
In short: By our ranking, the most beautiful places in Venezuela are Mount Roraima, Canaima National Park and Angel Falls. The list covers 8 places. Last updated 13 October 2026.
Venezuela's most extraordinary landscapes sit on the Guiana Shield, among the oldest rock formations on Earth. There, Precambrian sandstone has eroded into tepuis: flat-topped mountains with sheer walls that rise from the savanna and forest like islands, each with its own isolated plants and animals. Rain falling on their summits pours off the edges in some of the tallest waterfalls anywhere. To the north the Andes reach their Venezuelan end, and the Caribbean coast is fringed with coral islands.
Canaima National Park protects the heart of the tepui country in the southeast. From Auyán-tepui, Angel Falls drops 979 metres, the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, named after the American aviator Jimmie Angel. Mount Roraima, the highest tepui of the Pacaraima chain, has a summit plateau of black rock, crystal fields and pools, said to have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Its neighbour Kukenán Tepuy sends its own long waterfall down the cliffs. Far to the southwest, Cerro Autana rises from the Amazon rainforest with a cave passing right through the mountain near its top.
The country's other landscapes offer contrasts. Los Roques is a Caribbean archipelago of coral cays, lagoons and reefs. The Mérida cable car climbs into the Andes toward Pico Espejo, among the highest cable cars in the world. In Caracas, the Aula Magna of the Central University, part of Carlos Raúl Villanueva's modernist campus, is famous for the floating acoustic panels designed by Alexander Calder that hang from its ceiling.
In this list
| # | Place | Type | UNESCO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Roraima | Tepui | |
| 2 | Canaima National Park | National park | ✓ |
| 3 | Angel Falls | Waterfall | |
| 4 | Kukenán Tepuy | Tepui | |
| 5 | Los Roques Archipelago | National park | |
| 6 | Mérida cable car | Aerial tramway | |
| 7 | Aula Magna | Theatre building | |
| 8 | Cerro Autana | Tepui |
01 Mount Roraima
Venezuela5.142° N 60.764° W
Tinhojv · CC BY-SA 4.0 Geologists call formations like this a tepui — "house of the gods" in the language of the Pemón, the Indigenous people who have lived around it the longest — and the name fits better than most translated place-names do.
Did you know? The name is usually traced to Pemón words meaning "blue-green" and "great".
02 Canaima National Park
Parque Nacional Canaima
Venezuela5.319° N 61.795° W
- UNESCO World Heritage
- UNESCO natural beauty
Image by Jrafave from Pixabay Canaima National Park covers about 30,000 square kilometres of south-eastern Venezuela, stretching to the borders with Brazil and Guyana and taking in most of the Gran Sabana. It is one of the largest national parks in the world, roughly the size of Belgium.
Did you know? Of the falls' 979 metres, the single uninterrupted plunge accounts for about 807 metres.
03 Angel Falls
Salto Ángel
Venezuela5.970° N 62.536° W
JhonnyCatanho · CC BY-SA 3.0 Angel Falls drops from the rim of Auyán-tepui, one of the sheer-sided table mountains of south-eastern Venezuela, and is generally ranked as the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world: a total height of 979 metres, of which 807 metres is a single free fall.
Did you know? Earlier climbs failed on slippery rock in the wet season of 1968 and, a year later, on an overhang about 120 m below the top.
04 Kukenán Tepuy
Venezuela5.202° N 60.828° W
Paolo Costa Baldi · CC BY-SA 3.0 Kukenán, also known as Matawi or Cuquenán, is one of the great table mountains of the Gran Sabana in south-eastern Venezuela: a sandstone block about three kilometres long rising to 2,680 metres, its summit plateau of more than 21 square kilometres ringed on every side by sheer cliffs hundreds of metres high.
Did you know? Awakaipu handed out pages of the London Times as sacred charms, according to the naturalist Carl Ferdinand Appun, who recorded the story in 1871.
05 Los Roques Archipelago
Archipiélago Los Roques
Venezuela11.857° N 66.757° W
Juan valero · CC BY-SA 3.0 Los Roques is a scatter of some 350 islands, cays and islets in the Caribbean, about 128 km north of the Venezuelan coast at La Guaira.
Did you know? The central lagoon covers about 400 square kilometres, enclosed by barrier reefs some 24 km long on the east and 32 km on the south.
06 Mérida cable car
Teleférico de Mérida
Venezuela · 13.8 km from Mérida8.529° N 71.064° W
Cesar Pérez · CC BY-SA 3.0 From the city of Mérida in the Venezuelan Andes, a chain of cable-car sections climbs more than 3,000 metres up the flanks of the Sierra Nevada to Pico Espejo, at 4,765 metres.
Did you know? In 2008 inspections found the original cables close to their 50-year limit and a crack in one tower, and the old system was retired for good.
07 Aula Magna
Venezuela · 3.4 km from Caracas10.491° N 66.891° W
Caracas1830 · CC BY 3.0 Step into the Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuela and the ceiling seems to be full of drifting coloured shapes. These are Alexander Calder's Floating Clouds: 31 great painted panels of laminated wood on steel frames, suspended at different angles above the audience and along the side walls.
Did you know? Calder saw his clouds in place only once, on a visit to Caracas in 1955.
08 Cerro Autana
Venezuela4.855° N 67.450° W
Ldberriz · CC BY-SA 3.0 Cerro Autana looks like the stump of a colossal tree left standing in the rainforest — and that is exactly what the Piaroa people who live around it say it is.
Did you know? The first ascent in 1974 followed the 600-metre North Ridge over three days, after which the climbers spent four more days mapping the caves before abseiling down.
How this list is ranked
Places are chosen for how they look, not for how famous they are: each one has its own description and a photograph credited to its author. The order is a single world ranking that weighs the beauty of the place in curated photography together with how widely it is documented — the number of language editions of its encyclopedia article and how often that article is read in a year. The list is rebuilt as places are added, so the order and the counts on this page are always current.
Questions people ask
- What are the most beautiful places in Venezuela?
- On our list, Mount Roraima ranks first, followed by Canaima National Park and Angel Falls.
- What is a tepui?
- A tepui is a table-top mountain of ancient sandstone with near-vertical walls, typical of the Guiana Highlands. The name comes from the Pemón language, and because their summits are isolated, many tepuis have plants and animals found nowhere else.
- How tall is Angel Falls?
- Angel Falls has a total height of 979 metres, with an uninterrupted drop of about 807 metres, making it the tallest waterfall in the world. It falls from the edge of Auyán-tepui in Canaima National Park.
- What are the Calder clouds in the Aula Magna?
- They are large coloured acoustic panels, known as the Floating Clouds, designed by Alexander Calder with acoustic engineers for the auditorium of the Central University of Venezuela, completed in 1953. The University City of Caracas is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- What kinds of places are there to see in Venezuela?
- In our collection, the places in Venezuela are most often tepuis (3), national parks (2), mountains (1) and waterfalls (1).
- How many places are on this list in Venezuela?
- The list covers 8 places.