Inside the Camuy Cavernas
by Sandra Pena de Ortiz
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Inside the Camuy Cavernas
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Sandra Pena de Ortiz
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Photograph - Photography
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A look from the inside of the Camuy Caverns or las Cuevas de Camuy in Camuy, Puerto Rico, the third largest cave system in the world and one of the most popular attractions in the island. The photograph was shot from inside the cave, with the photographer looking back to the main entrance to the cavern in the guided tour. The shaded figures of several tourists and visitors can be distinguished standing on the trial path inside the cave, that has been prepared for them. The amazing imaging shows the contrast of the light of a sunny day in to the darkness in the cavern. Actually, for the purposes of this image the brightness was increased so as to unveil the details inside the cave, such as the shadows of the visitors, the terrain, the rocks, and the vivid vegetation growing next to the entrance. This image is a mixed media one treated with a GIMP Van Gogh paint filter. The entrance ceiling is dressed with cryptic stalactites, which on the outside of the cavern are dressed and beautified by the natural vegetation. The term stalactite comes from the Greek word stalasso meaning "to drip" or " that which drips". They are a type of secondary mineral that hangs from the ceiling of limestone caves. Stalactites are a a type of dripstone. Las Cuevas de Camuy as they are popularly known in the island of Puerto Rico are comprised by a complex cave system that is the central attraction of The Camuy River Cave Park or Parque de las Cavernas del Rio Camuy. This park located between three municipalities in northwestern Puerto Rico: Camuy, Hatillo, and Lares; the principal entrance to the park being at Quebrada, Camuy. The Camuy River Cave Park is 268 acres and its great subterranean caverns were carved out by the Camuy River more than one million years ago. The trails, which allow local and worldwide visitors to enter and observe the subterranean natural marvel, are maintained impeccably gently descending 200 feet through a fern-filled ravine to the yawning, cathedral-like caverns. When one enters into the Camuy Cavers, there is a feeling or sense of being transported to another, hidden surreal world full splendid geometrical naturally formed structures. The cave system was explored by the Taino Indians, who were Puerto Rico's first inhabitants. Actually, the name Camuy originates from the Ta�no language, possibly for the word "sun", the phrase "beautiful scenery", or the name of the Taino chief Yumac with the letters inverted. The cavern system was rediscovered in 1958 and was first documented in the 1973 book Discovery At The Rio Camuy (ISBN 0-517-50594-0) by Russell and Jeanne Gurnee.
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