Tepequém

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Tepequém{{cite web|url=http://portal.rr.gov.br/index.php/component/k2/item/2611-reforco-no-turismo-governador-assina-ordem-de-servico-para-recuperacao-da-estrada-do-tepequem |title=REFORÇO NO TURISMO Governador assina ordem de serviço para recuperação da estrada do Tepequém|website=Government of Roraima|access-date=8 April 2021|language=pt}} is a remote and sparsely populated (2010) village in eastern Amajari, Roraima, Brazil. Diamonds were discovered near the village in the 1930s.{{cite web|url=https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/spring-2017-brazilian-diamonds |title=Brazilian Diamonds: A Historical and Recent Perspective|website=Gemological Institute of America|access-date=8 April 2021}}{{cite journal|url=https://journals.openedition.org/eps/5817?lang=en |title=The Colonization of Roraima State, Brazil: an Analysis of its Major Migration Flows (1970 to 2010)|author=Alexandre Magno Alves Diniz and Elisângela Gonçalves Lacerda|journal=Espace Populations Sociétés|year=2014|issue=2014/2–3|doi=10.4000/eps.5817|page=9|doi-access=free}} The village can be reached by road from the RR-203. The economy is based on tourism.

Serro de Tepequém (Tepequém [[Mountain range|Mountain Range]])

The village of Tepequém is surrounded by Serro de Tepequém. Serro de Tepequém is a tepui about 1,100 metres above sea level at its plateau, its highest point.{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273132492 |title=Two new endangered species of Anomaloglossus (Anura: Aromobatidae) from Roraima State, Northern Brazil |author=Antoine Fouquet|year=2015|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3926|issue=2 |page=192|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.2|pmid=25781778 }}

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