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Ballena Marine National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Marino Ballena), is a national park of Costa Rica, part of the Osa Conservation Area created as a safe area for humpback whale migration, hence its name, as Ballena is the Spanish word for whale. The national park has an area of 5,160 ha (12,800 acres) marine, and 171 ha (420 acres ...
Del Valle Regional Park is a part of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) in an unincorporated region of Alameda County, California, 10 miles (16 km) south of the city of Livermore. [1] The park covers 4,316 acres (~17.47 km 2 ., ~6.74 sq. mi.).
Nevado Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth and the highest peak in Chile. The upper reaches of Ojos del Salado consist of several overlapping lava domes, lava flows and volcanic craters, with sparse ice cover. The complex extends over an area of 70–160 ...
Aerial view of Lake Del Valle and Del Valle Regional Park, with Livermore and Mount Diablo in the distance The lake is on Arroyo Valle (Spanish for "creek of the valley") in the Diablo Range , and is formed by Del Valle Dam, completed in 1968 (57 years ago) ( 1968 ) .
Bahía Ballena is a district of the Osa canton, in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] ... Centro Centroamericano de Población [5] For the 2011 census, ...
It is only a few meters taller than La Pelona, its twin, which stands at 3,097 metres (10,161 ft), and from which it is separated by a col between summits that is approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) wide, and is officially named Valle del Baíto, but unofficially called Valle de Lilís. The col's mean elevation is 2,950 metres (9,680 ft).
The Rincón de la Vieja Volcano is set within the Rincón de la Vieja National Park, which spans over 12,759 ha (31,530 acres) and helps protect both montane forests and dwarf cloud forests. Trails extend from the Santa Maria ranger station and wind through the park, passing hot springs and waterfalls along the way.
Cerro Ballena comprises a 20 m × 250 m (66 ft × 820 ft) quarry extending along the Pan-American Highway, though aerial maps indicate a larger extent of nearly 2 km (6,600 ft). The locality is about 9 m (30 ft) in thickness, composed of stratified fine to very fine-grained silty sandstones and sands that are assigned to the Bahía Inglesa ...