Laguna de Canaima EarthCache

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Hidden : 5/27/2009
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:

It is a National Park where there is an entrance fee.
Please preserve nature and follow the rules.



The Canaima Lagoon is one of the most beautiful places in the world, this sweet water lagoon and her beaches are being fed by several small water falls: Hacha, Wadaima, Golondrina and Ucaima. Take a Curiara, a long canoe and have a closer look at the different water falls around the Canaima Lagoon. Reach the island of Anatoly where you can see the Sapo (frog) and Sapito (little frog) water falls.You will never forget the experience of walking underneath "El Sapo", on your way to "El Sapito", the "little frog" waterfall. For sure, you will not stay dry :) You shouldn't miss the natural wonder of the world: The Angel Falls, which are part of The National Park Canaima as well.



HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGIC FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK OF CANAIMA

The park is part of the plateau of the Guyanese shield that underlies the entirety of the lands located in Venezuela to the south of the Orinoco, it is composed of two fundamental Geologic formations. The Igneous-metamorphic basement, with an age estimated in 2000 million years represents the old crust of our planet. These Important changes can be experienced in the geographicay visualizes is the result of a long period of processes of geologic transformations through the time up until today. With two thousand million years, back at the precambric, it dates from the time that the super continent Pangaea was formed, which includes: America, Africa, Antarctic, Asia and Europe.

This continent began to separate due to the formation of a fracture in the planet's crust. Originating this way the formation of the Atlantic ocean and the creation of different portions of lands called shields. The geographic region in Venezuela of the Guyanese Shield existed from the start. It started as a great plain of plane lands, where the height was at the today's same level as the visible Tepuy's about 2000 -3000 meters.The formation of these lands originates due to the erosion, which is the displacement of different types of materials that, as they traveled because of the action of strong currents of water, they transported rocks and minerals to distant places.These materials were settling creating a basement of rocks igneous and metamorphic coming from the bark where they would originate, these silts product of the erosion of the crystalline rock, were consolidating in stratum of gritty. Cuarcitas and Shales, these rocks ended up covering several kilometers of the crust, then, the strange mountains were formed called Tepuys that we see today as a strange mountain formation all flat and with its own world on top of it.In the places where the depositions of materials was carried out in a certain order, the resulting rock was of a great resistance. In the opposite area the deposits settled in a disordered way forming a bed rock with less resistance. After the formation of the great plain, during a long period of time (approximately among 400-200 million years) a series of climatologically phenomena caused important changes in the geography of the Guyanese shield. The transformation of the landscape owed herself basically to drastic variations of arid climate to humid and vice versa, of strong constant and lingering precipitations, droughts, freezing, discharges with high and low temperatures, storms, hurricanes, and the tectonic movements of the earth. The erosion of the atmospheric agents was removing the material deposited in the great plain during millions of years. In places where the rock was less resistant the erosion was bigger, being a result of this great transformation, the Tepuys and the landscape of the national park of Canaima reviles its fantastic scenery of today.





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1. Canaima National park is one of biggest national parks in the world. How many square km occupy the national park of Canaima?
2. What is the rank among other national parks in the world?
3. What is the color of the sand at the Canaima lagoon and what is your opinion for reason of this color?
4. Upload a picture of yourself on the spot, more pictures from Canaima Park are welcome.



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