Tepui
![Kukenan tepui.](/Images/godic/202502/15/Kukenan_Tepuy_at_Sunset4513.jpg")
![The plateau of Mount Roraima. The peculiar rock formation is caused by erosion.](/Images/godic/202502/15/Roraima-Tepui_Plateau4513.jpg")
![Mount Roraima.](/Images/godic/202502/15/Mt_Roraima_in_Venezuela_0014513.JPG")
![View of the Venezuelan Amazon from the top of a tepui.](/Images/godic/202502/15/TepuiRio4514.jpg")
A tepui /ˈtɛpwi/, or tepuy (Spanish: [teˈpui]), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran Sabana.