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Cumbres de Monterrey National Park was established on November 24, 1939, by president Lázaro Cárdenas. [ 1 ] The park was decreed to encompass 246,500 hectares (609,000 acres), which at the time was the largest area to be declared protected by the Mexican government as a national park. By decree on November 17, 2000, Cumbres de Monterrey ...
Scincella caudaequinae, commonly known as the Horsetail Falls ground skink[ 1] is endemic to Mexico. [ 2] It was named for the type locality "Horsetail Falls, 25 miles south of Monterrey, Nuevo, Leon". [ 3] Scincella caudaequinae occurs in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, [ 4] southeast Coahuila, [ 5] and ...
Total height. 25 metres (82 ft) Number of drops. 1. Longest drop. 25 m. Cola de Caballo ( Spanish, 'Horse Tail') is a waterfall about 25 m (25 mi), in the town of Villa de Santiago, Nuevo León. It is open to the public and is accessible via a walking path. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cascada Cola de Caballo (Ordesa).
The natural fiery sight of Horsetail Fall in February is reminiscent of a human-made firefall during the early decades of Yosemite National Park. Between 1872 and 1968, people would stoke a large ...
Horsetail Fall, located in Yosemite National Park in California, is a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter and early spring. The fall occurs on the east side of El Capitan . [ 1 ] If Horsetail Fall is flowing in February and the weather conditions are just right, the setting sun illuminates the waterfall, making it glow orange and red. [ 2 ]
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Perhaps the largest leaves of all are found on Z. lindleyana from Mexico, usually distributed as a cultivar called 'Horsetail Falls'; this species has handsome broad leaves almost like a Hippeastrum. Flower color in the species ranges from white to yellow (various tints of this color from lemon to sulfur) and pink.
Yosemite Firefall. The Yosemite Firefall was a summertime event that began in 1872 and continued for almost a century, in which burning hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to the valley 3,000 feet (900 m) below. From a distance it appeared as a glowing waterfall. The owners of the Glacier Point Hotel ...