Tumuc-Humac Mountains

The Tumuc-Humac Mountains ‌are mountains in Suriname located on the Brazilian border. It is an eastern extension of the Acarai mountains. The mountain is 180 miles long and during the Spanish colonial era, this mountain was thought to hide El Dorado. El Dorado is a country of gold. Many explorers have searched for this mystical place but none have found it. Some explorations turned out to be fatal. The mountain was little explored until the 20th century. Then the  Francis Mazière expedition made the first documented expedition over the mountains into Brazil. The mountain is home to numerous animals and plants alike. Such plants include trees from the family Burseraceae, Sapotaceae, and Lecythidaceae. Some of the animals include Jaguars, tapirs, capybaras, some types of monkeys, rodents, varied birds and butterflies.