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Showing posts with label Waterfall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waterfall. Show all posts

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Dec 25, 2009

This beautiful place located in the Plitvice Lakes municipality, in the mountainous region of Lika, Croatia, east Europe. This park are contain of mountains, forest, waterfall and lakes. Surrounded by three mountains part of the Dinaric Alps, Plješevica mountain and the Mala Kapela mountain, this park lies in the Plitvice plateau.

The beautiful view of lake, which are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae and bacteria so make the water colourfull, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.



The Plitvice Lakes had become a major tourist attraction in the late 19th century. In 1949 the communist government of Yugoslavia nationalized the lakes and made them a national park. The park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 in recognition of its "outstanding natural beauty, and the undisturbed production of travertine (tuff) through chemical and biological action".





The Plitvice Lakes are today one of Croatia's biggest tourist attractions. In 2000, the national park was expanded by a further 102 km².

(source wikipedia)

Iguazu Fall

Nov 21, 2009

Located on border of the Brazilian and Argentina, this waterfall was a part of Iguazu River. Some part of this waterfall is also called The Devil's Throat, form on letters U-shaped, with a height of 82 meters, 150 meters wide and 700 meters long.



Iguazu Fall was elected for one candidate of the new7wonder of nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As one of the world tourist attraction, this waterfall can be reached from both State and territory has been divided by the National Park Iguazu (Argentina) and Iguacu National Park (Brazil). This park is set UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 and 1987.



Iguazu Falls occur as a result of volcanic eruptions that left another large crack in the earth. During the rainy season from November to March, the rate of water flow out to the falls can be reached 450,000 cubic feet (12,750 cubic m) per second. However, severe droughts occurred around July 2006 and resulted in a decrease of water volume to 300 cubic meters. However, the water flow increase anymore towards the moon back to December.



This tourism object is used for water tours and rock climbing.
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