Essay On Bellamar Cave

Bellamar Caves are a National Monument that is located in Matanzas, Cuba, they are a set of cave with more than 23 kilometers of galleries. By the beauty of its gallery and caves, they were declared a National Monument. The galleries and passages of the cave started forming about 300 thousand years ago. According to the studies the caves were originally under the sea, part of the bat of Matanzas. While they were under sea level, these caves were full of water. The tectonic movements caused the area to rise, until it became marine terraces are noticed in the city of Matanzas and its surroundings. With the pass of the time these caves were drying up, but some pockets that are deep under the sea level they began to leak between the rocks, on the roof of the caves water with
Don Manuel Santos Parga, owner of the farm asked for explanations and receiving no response addressed the scene, ordered to be dug there; and hardly it had he “opened a space of just over a rod out of the hole practiced a stream of air disgusting smell; as hot and smoky; then so it was revealed the entrance to the cave” (The Cuban Family). He realized what the discovery meant and began to prepare the cave for visitors could enjoy it. They took many stones; they made concrete stairs that are still in use; they installed handrails; and as soon it was a reality, installed electricity. He or one of the guides under his employment had to tourists by the passageways of the cave while explaining what they were seeing. In the first two years over two thousand people visited. In those days it was a both tourist resounding success as a scientist. “Bellamar Caves included among the most impressive in the world, is one of the many attractions in the Matanzas province, 100 kilometers east of Havana.”(Cuba