| Murisipán-tepui | |
| Elevation M: | 2350 |
| Map: | Venezuela |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Location: | Bolívar, Venezuela |
| Coordinates: | 5.8697°N -62.0756°W |
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 2350m (7,710feet) and a summit area of 5sqkm. The mountain's mostly bare summit plateau has a small, seasonal lagoon near its centre.
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 (5.8756°N -62.1133°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.
The frog species Anomaloglossus murisipanensis is only known from Murisipán-tepui.[2]