sorpréndete with naica

It undertakes a route to the state of Chihuahua, where a considered cave one of the more incredible natural wonders was open pie crystal. Through documentary the secret of the cave of Naica, that is released the Sunday 23 of January to the 21:00 hours, it is entered to the entrails of this site that above has temperatures of the 45 degrees Celsius.

Enormous crystals as large as a field of soccer and with a height near a building of two plants, is what they discovered the miners in the year 2000, when they looked lead and zinc. After to a pumping system to remove from liters of hot water to the surface, in 2008 one first stage of investigation began.

An equipment scientists of the National University of Mexico as well as of institutions of the United States, suspected that the cave was the entrance to a vast system of interconnected cameras. In 2009, they managed to incorporate a to one of the wicks that the ventilation hole perforated, and found a cavern of more than 150 meters, besides a new giant crystal formation.

Nat Geo and its international group of scientists were equipped with the last technology so that geologists, espeleólogos and photographers managed to enter the colossal cavern of more than 300 meters of depth. With special clothes in that congealed water tubes are placed, the experts took samples from and virus, and discovered rocks in the form of cauliflower that they impress his beauty, color and design.

This natural treasure can be explored thanks to the pumping system that drains the water with which an ample zone of desert turned green again. But its time of life depends on the investment that makes companies and governments, since once is stopped removing the water, the caverns will be flooded again and will be impossible the exploration of this cave of extreme conditions in Naica, that means place without water.

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