Caño Cristales, Serrania de la Macarena,Colombia The river is commonly called "The River of Five Colors," "The Liquid Rainbow" or even "The Most Beautiful River in the World" due to the striking colors like yellow, green, blue, black, and especially the red of the Macarenia clavigera at the bottom of the river giving it a unique appearance.The rocks of the Macarena reach 1200 million years old and are an extension to the west of the called Guiana Shield of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, whose rocks are considered the oldest in the world. The rocks of the region belong to the sedimentary cover of the Guaiana Shield. The biological significance of global of the Macarena is because part of three ecosystems rich in diversity of flora and fauna: Andes, Eastern Llanos and Amazon rainforest. "Every new germs gap rush stations", says José Eustasio Rivera in La Vorágine, referring to this type of vegetation.The small circular pits, that characterize the river bed have been opened by high hardness minerals. When one of these hard mineral fragments falls into one of the cavities, large or small, begins to brushing rotate with the cavity wall and increases the dimensions of the well. image via: hamsterboard/wordpress/?p=417 source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1o_Cristales. Caño Cristales, Serrania de la Macarena,Colombia The river is commonly called "The River of Five Colors," "The Liquid Rainbow" or even "The Most Beautiful River in the World" due to the striking colors like yellow, green, blue, black, and especially the red of the Macarenia clavigera at the bottom of the river giving it a unique appearance.The rocks of the Macarena reach 1200 million years old and are an extension to the west of the called Guiana Shield of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, whose rocks are considered the oldest in the world. The rocks of the region belong to the sedimentary cover of the Guaiana Shield. The biological significance of global of the Macarena is because part of three ecosystems rich in diversity of flora and fauna: Andes, Eastern Llanos and Amazon rainforest. "Every new germs gap rush stations", says José Eustasio Rivera in La Vorágine, referring to this type of vegetation.The small circular pits, that characterize the river bed have been opened by high hardness minerals. When one of these hard mineral fragments falls into one of the cavities, large or small, begins to brushing rotate with the cavity wall and increases the dimensions of the well. image via: hamsterboard/wordpress/?p=417 source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caño_Cristales
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