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	Guiana Highlands - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		GUIANA HIGHLANDS [Guiana Highlands] mountainous tableland, c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) long and from 200 to 600 mi (322-966 km) wide, N South America, bounded by the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, and by the coastal lowlands of the Guianas.
		Geologically, the Guiana Highlands is a shield—a stable mass of Precambrian rock—and is related to the Brazilian Highlands.
		The highlands remains one of the world's few frontiers although it is yielding to the development process that has transformed Santo Tomé de Guayana, Venezuela, into the region's chief industrial center and the gateway to the interior.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-guianahi.html (412 words)

	AllRefer.com - Guiana Highlands, Latin America & Caribbean Islands (Latin American And Caribbean Physical Geography) - ...
		Guiana Highlands, mountainous tableland, c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) long and from 200 to 600 mi (322–966 km) wide, N South America, bounded by the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, and by the coastal lowlands of the Guianas.
		Geologically, the Guiana Highlands is a shield : a stable mass of Precambrian rock : and is related to the Brazilian Highlands.
		The highlands remains one of the world's few frontiers although it is yielding to the development process that has transformed Santo TomE de Guayana, Venezuela, into the region's chief industrial center and the gateway to the interior.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GuianaHi.html (478 words)

	Guiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Guiana (also known as the Guiana highlands) forms a portion of the northern coast of South America.
		The main portion of the highlands are located in south eastern Venezuela, and are partly protected by the Canaima National Park.
		The region extends southwards into Brazil, and eastwards into Guyana (previous British Guiana), French Guiana, and Suriname (previous Dutch Guiana).
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /g/gu/guiana.html (108 words)

	Encyclopedia
		In the Pampas and S Brazilian Highlands, however, summers tend to be humid, and in the winter cyclonic storms may penetrate, bringing rain and chilly weather.
		The speakers of Quechua are primarily in the central Andean highlands, and the speakers of Aymara in the highlands of Bolivia and Peru.
		It is produced in the highlands, notably in SE Brazil and in W central Colombia.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=222746 (7962 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Highlands
		Located almost entirely in the Guiana Highlands, the region is drained by the Rio Branco.
		It is the commercial center of the eastern llanos, the Orinoco basin, and the Guiana Highlands.
		Protestant missions and the evangelization of the Scottish Highlands, 1700-1850.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Highlands&StartAt=81 (598 words)

	British Guiana -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		British Guiana was the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana.
		The area was originally settled by the Dutch as the colonies of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo, then captured by the British in 1796 and officially ceded in 1814, and consolidated into a single colony in 1831.
		The British Guiana 1¢ magenta is among the rarest of all postage stamps.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-guiana.html (915 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Guiana
		Guiana Highlands GUIANA HIGHLANDS [Guiana Highlands] mountainous tableland, c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) long and from 200 to 600 mi (322-966 km) wide, N South America, bounded by the Orinoco and Amazon river basins, and by the coastal lowlands of the Guianas.
		Part of the Guiana region, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the north, Suriname
		Part of the Guiana region, it is separated from Brazil on the south by the Tumuc-Humac Mts., from Guyana on the west by the Corantijn
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Guiana (591 words)

	Guiana Highlands
		The Pacaraima Mts., which culminate in Mt. Roraima (9,219 ft/2,810 m high) on the Venezuela–Guyana–Brazil border, form the highest section of the highlands.
		Mazaruni - Mazaruni, river, c.350 mi (560 km) long, rising in the Guiana Highlands, NW Guyana, and flowing...
		Demerara - Demerara, river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Guiana Highlands, E Guyana, and flowing N...
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0822083 (427 words)

	The Rivers and Drainage Of Venezuela
		Flowing more than 2,500 kilometers to the Atlantic from its source in the Guiana highlands at the Brazilian border, the Orinoco is the world's eighth largest river and the largest in South America after the Amazon.
		The other major Venezuelan river is the fast-flowing Caroní, which originates in the Guiana highlands and flows northward into the Orinoco upstream from Ciudad Guyana.
		Electricity generated by the Caroní was one of the factors encouraging industrialization of the northern part of the Guiana highlands and the lower Orinoco valley.
	www.geography-site.co.uk /pages/countries/drainage/venezuela_drainage.html (422 words)

	Dinosaur Hunting announced for Xbox - Gaming Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Due to a tectonic shift, the highlands became enclosed by towering cliffs which cut the dinosaurs off from the rest of the world.
		In these hostile highlands, Earth's final frontier, the largest hunt in the history of mankind is about to begin.
		Players explore the Guiana Highlands as they gather knowledge about the dinosaurs and their environments, including theories about dinosaur history.
	www.gaming-age.com /news/2003/10/6-25 (335 words)

	Guiana - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Guiana, region in the northeastern part of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean and extending between the Orinoco, Negro, and Amazon rivers....
		Guiana Highlands, also Guiana Massif or Guiana Shield, upland region developed on ancient rocks, northern South America.
		- region of Northeastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean and including Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and parts of Venezuela and Brazil.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Guiana.html (70 words)

	Land and Resourses - Venezuela - South America: gulf venezuela, flow orinoco, angel falls, mountain zone, lake maracaibo
		Venezuela has four distinct geographic regions: the Maracaibo lowlands, the northern Venezuelan highlands, the Llanos (plains) of the north central region, and the Guiana Highlands to the south.
		In the easternmost region of the highlands, the crest of the largely uninhabited Sierra de Perija range forms the Colombia-Venezuela border.
		A rugged, hilly plateau region drained to the Orinoco system by swift-flowing rivers, the Guiana Highlands have attracted attention owing to discoveries of ores such as iron, manganese, and bauxite.
	www.countriesquest.com /south_america/venezuela/land_and_resourses.htm (722 words)

	AllRefer.com - Guiana, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It includes SE Venezuela, part of N Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana), and Guyana (formerly British Guiana).
		The region consists of a cultivated coastal plain, where most of the population lives, and a forested, hilly interior, the Guiana Highlands.
		The Dutch and subsequently the English reclaimed much of the tidal lands for planting sugarcane and rice, but the acreage is tiny in comparison to Guiana as a whole.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Guiana.html (426 words)

	Highlands - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Highlands, mountainous region, northern and central Scotland, including the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Grampian Mountains, and the...
		Guiana Highlands, also Guiana Massif or Guiana Shield, upland region of ancient rocks, northern South America.
		Also known as the Great Divide or Eastern Highlands, it extends...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Highlands.html (126 words)

	U9_Soils SAmerica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Geographically Venezuela is a land of vivid contrasts, with four major divisions: the Venezuelan highlands, the coastal lowlands, the basin of the Orinoco River, and the Guiana Highlands.
		Densely populated, the highland region is the political and commercial hub of the nation.
		Brazil occupies nearly half the continent of South America, stretching from the Guiana Highlands in the north, where it borders Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, to the plains of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina in the south.
	www.soils.agri.umn.edu /academics/classes/soil4505/doc/unit9sam.htm (5818 words)

	Untitled Document
		The basis of the Guyana and Brazil Highlands where formed.Today the Guiana Shield covers: North East Brazil with the northern part of the Amazone Craton (parts of the states of Amapa, Para and Roraima), and includes parts of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela and Colombia.
		During the precambruim period the Guiana Shield was part of the supercontinent Pangea.
		The mountains and hills in the Guiana Highlands are separated by river valleys and marshy depressions.
	www.gsmp.org /ENGLISH/GS-HTM/D-BODY.HTM (1218 words)

	Ethno-Geological Mysteries: 3 of 5 (52 of 103)
		The Brazil and Guiana highlands seem to be remnants of mountain country older and formerly far more imposing than the Andes, which has now been reduced to insignificance by the wear and tear of ages.
		McGovern remarks that that ridge and the Guiana Highlands are the same age.
		This locates the Guiana, the Challenger Ridge, Ireland, probably Scotland, and Scandinavia, as the main mountain chain of Atlantis, as the Andes and Rockies are of the Americas.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ScienceAndTheSecretDoctrine/SeriesNumber52-of-103.html (1321 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA03396
		These two images show exactly the same area in South America, the Guiana Highlands straddling the borders of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil.
		Thus SRTM30 provides a new resource of uniform quality for all parts of the Earth, and since the data, which have an intrinsic resolution of about 30 meters, were averaged and resampled to match the GTOPO30 sample spacing and format, and can be used by the same computer software without modification.
		The Guiana Highlands are part of the Guyana Shield, which lies in northeast South America and represent one of the oldest land surfaces in the world.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA03396 (582 words)

	Guiana Highlands
		In Guiana, the government and the people are fighting to save any more of their tropical rainforests from being granted to foreign firms.
		In order to assure there is no danger of the forest being depleted, the government has set aside 607,000 hectares of reserved forest and called in agencies such as the British Overseas Development Administration, the World Resources Institute, and the World Bank to assist the forest service in monitoring the industry.
		Many environmentalists, led by the militant Guiana Human Rights Association (GHRA) are doing extensive research on the backgrounds of prospective Asian firms.
	www2.truman.edu /~marc/webpages/nativesp99/environment/guianahighlands.html (327 words)

	g6ven.html
		They are the Maracaibo Basin, the Andean Highlands, the Llanos and the Guiana Highlands.
		The Andean Highlands begins south west of the Maracaibo Basin and extends across northern Venezuela.
		The Llanos, the Maracaiba Lowlands and low lying parts of the Guiana Highlands are hot and humid.
	clague.aaps.k12.mi.us /web/lam/g6ven.html (1201 words)

	highlands - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Highlands : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Highlands : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
		Phrases that include highlands: eastern highlands, guiana highlands, cape breton highlands national park, highlands of scotland, the highlands, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=highlands (184 words)

	South American Highlands - South American Prairies - www.americangirl.cellphonebattery.be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Native dance rituals have their last strongholds in the jungles and highlands...
		are mostly in the Brazilian highlands, where their tribes were probably pushed...
		area of the Brazilian and Guiana highlands of the east and northeast...
	www.americangirl.cellphonebattery.be /south-american-prairies/south-american-highlands.html (546 words)

	Metro 3D Dinosaur Hunting Reviews at VideoGameReview.com
		On the highlands of Guiana in the Amazon interior lives dinosaurs!
		But the Guiana highlands are showing signs of volcanic activity.
		The dinosaurs that have defied fate and survived until now are suddenly facing extinction.
	www.videogamereview.com /cat/x-box-games-and-equipment/x-box-adventure/Dinosaur,Hunting/PRD_285821_4170crx.aspx (155 words)

	Guiana Highlands - Peakware World Mountain Encyclcopedia
		The Guiana Highlands are located in northern South America, extending from South Venezuela through Guiana and southward into Brazil.
		Because of their ancient isolation from the forest floor, an entirely unique ecosystem has evolved on the mesa tops, including unique species of plants, insects, and animals.
		The highest of the Guiana Highlands is Mount Roraima (9,094 ft.).
	www.peakware.com /areas.html?a=415 (151 words)

	Guiana - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Guiana, region in the north-eastern part of South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean and extending between the Orinoco, Negro, and Amazon rivers....
		French Guiana, overseas administrative district (département) of France, situated on the north-eastern coast of South America.
		See all search results in Encarta Articles (28)
	au.encarta.msn.com /Guiana.html (79 words)

	Guiana
		French Guiana (including Inini) - Status: Overseas Department Prefect: Jean-Pierre Laflaquière (2006) Land area: 34,421 sq mi...
		Atlas: French Guiana - Facts on French Guiana: flags, maps, geography, history, statistics, disasters current events, and international relations.
		La Guyane française, officially Department of Guiana, French overseas...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0822082.html (350 words)

	Trek Through the Guiana Highlands Part 2: Make A Poster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Use your paragraphs from Part 1 and this form to make your poster.
		Complete the poster in one session because your work cannot be saved.
		Introduce the Guiana Highlands and the trek you have planned.
	go.hrw.com /social/geo/post/ch10 (98 words)

	Get Ready to Hunt Giant Lizards
		Based on Conan Doyle’s Lost World novel, the game takes place in 1910, with a British Geologist Norton Klast discovering dinosaurs on the highlands of Guiana in the Amazon.
		Due to a tectonic shift, the highlands were cut off from the rest of the world by towering cliffs and mountains.
		Although the dinosaurs survived for thousands of years, they now face extinction, and need to be transported safely to a new location.
	www.xbox365.com /news.cgi?id=EpyVuVVpyAeYCKmxPl5069 (836 words)

	Western Guiana Highlands
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	www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=221 (59 words)

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