Snap Facts
Caño Cristales– The river is commonly called
the "River of Five Colors" or the "Liquid
Rainbow"
What Colours – yellow, green, blue, black,
and especially red
Geology- The quartzite rocks of the Serrania
de la Macarena tableland formed
approximately 1.2 billion years ago. They are
a western extension of the Guiana Shield of
Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil and belong to
the oldest exposed rocks in the world.
Caño Cristales is a fast river with many rapids
and waterfalls. Many circular pits known as -
giant's kettles, which have been formed by
pebbles or chunks of harder rocks. one of
these harder rock fragments falls into one of
the cavities, it is rotated by the water current
and begins to carve at the cavity wall and
increases the dimensions of the pit.
Wild Life -
420 species of birds
10 species of amphibians
43 species of reptiles
8 primates
There are no fish in the river Cristales