park caño cristales

caño cristales

It is a river that runs five beautiful colors on the grounds of the National Park Sierra de La Macarena, southwest of the department of Meta, and includes the municipalities of San Juan de Guaviare, La Macarena and Plateaus.

The "river of the gods" as it is called by some, was declared the biological heritage of mankind. In their journey on foot is discovered a range of colors highlighted with giant tunnels and abundant endemic species of vegetation to flourish in the natural environment.

The rocks of the Macarena up to 1,200 million years old and are an extension to the west of the Guyana Shield of Venezuela called, Guyana and Brazil, whose rocks are considered the oldest in the world. As rocky bed of crystals Cano, just a rain of moderate intensity to grow their wealth in an impressive manner, leaving the traveler isolated on its shores. However, the river tends to decrease with the same speed. Glass pipe is a succession of rapids, waterfalls, and pocetas correones. The waters are of such purity that displays the background and all the magic that holds this beautiful river.

His birth is located behind the oldest tepuys de la Sierra, in a rugged area where numerous cave paintings are still unexplored. The red color characteristic of endemic plants that exist there macarenias corresponds to Clavigero, plant and identified by biologist Idroibo Jesus. The appellation of the pipe due to a regional linguistic tradition of peasant character and Amazon, which thus called to distinguish streams of large rivers.

hecho por natalia morgan-leidi gomez