Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dominical is a beach-front town in Bahía Ballena District, of the Osa canton in the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica, approximately 45 km south of Quepos. It is well known for large, year-round waves and is popular among surfers in Costa Rica. [ 1 ]
Zapata Falls is a waterfall located in the San Luis Valley near the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on Bureau of Land Management land adjacent to Rio Grande National Forest and south of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Alamosa County, Colorado. [3] The waterfall has a drop of about 30 feet (9 m).
Logging was a successful enterprise upstream of the waterfall by Bridal Veil Falls Timber Company. [3] The sawmill community was a thriving area that eventually dried the creek and made its namesake waterfall disappear. Currently Bridal Veil is a ghost town East of the waterfall. Before the lumber mill the area was exploited by a paper mill. [4]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Sir Robert Schomburgk. The name of Constanza has its origin in the legend the daughter of a local Native Taíno chief who lived in the valley. Constanza was a sparsely populated area, though several explorers knew the valley in colonial times, and there was a settler named Victoriano Velano who brought European agriculture and ranching culture to the area in 1750.
The reserve is composed of a 50.90 km 2 (19.65 sq mi) upper lake and a 62.00 km 2 (23.94 sq mi) lower lake, with waterfalls between the two. Among the springs, there are three sulphur springs at the southern side of the lower lake, with extensive mobile sand dunes. Wadi El Rayan Waterfalls are considered to be the largest waterfalls in Egypt.
The waterfall formed around 15,000 years ago [2] at the end of a hanging valley, and was created by the Missoula floods. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] According to the creation story from the Multnomah tribe (from whom the falls take their name), the waterfall was formed after a young woman sacrificed herself to the Great Spirit to save a Multnomah village ...
35 Best Grinch Quotes “It came without ribbons, it came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags.” — The Grinch “Maybe Christmas (he thought) doesn’t come from a store ...