Jamanota
| Jamanota | ||
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 Landscape on the Jamanota |
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| height | 188 m | |
| location | Caribbean island of Aruba , Kingdom of the Netherlands | |
| Coordinates | 12 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 69 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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 Location of the Jamanota in Aruba |
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Jamanota (also Ceru Jamanota ) is the highest elevation on the Kingdom of the Netherlands belonging Caribbean island of Aruba . The top of the mountain is at an altitude of 188 meters above sea level .
geology
Geologically , the mountain, like the entire island, belongs to the South American mainland. In principle, it is thus the tip of a coastal hill range located below the sea surface that extends from Venezuela into the Caribbean Sea . The Jamanota is one of the elevations made of hard, partly volcanic rock in the center of the island, while the rest of the island consists mostly of gently rolling limestone hill country.
Economic importance
From the 1840s to the 1910s, the Jamanota was one of the two centers of the " gold rush " in Aruba. The gold was not dug from the surface, but rather extracted in a mine . This mine was already abandoned by 1885, but gold mining was resumed at the beginning of the 20th century. The gold ore was brought to the gold smelter in Balashi , a few kilometers southwest , which was in operation from 1899 to around 1916. By 1908, a total of 700 kilograms of gold had been found in the region.
Flora and fauna
Cacti , thorn bushes, agaves , aloes and rocks shape the picture all over Aruba. There are 48 species of native trees, but eleven of them are already very rare; of some there are only five copies left. Deforestation, climate change and goats are responsible. Many goats roam freely on the slopes of the Jamanota, as do donkeys ; both species were introduced by Spanish and Dutch colonists . A reforestation program has been underway for some time. The mountain is located in the National Park Arikok (National Park), which was declared an "Area of National Importance" in the early 1980s. Iguanas can be found here throughout ; tropical bird species are also at home here, including the Aruban Macaw Aratinga pertinax arubensis . South of the mountain there is a population of the endangered Aruban rattlesnake , the Cascabel (scientific: Crotalus durissus unicolor ).
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There is a radio antenna on the top of the Jamanota.
Web links
- Markus Kappeler: Aruba ; in Flags of the Nations Stamp Collection , Groth AG, Unterägeri, 1992
- Kevin A. Morin / Nora M. Hutt: "Remnant Environmental Effects from Gold Mining in Aruba After a Century" , Minesite Drainage Assessment Group , Canada 1998
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Flora and Fauna of Aruba" ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at ArubaTravelInfo.com , viewed September 1, 2007
- ↑ Arikok National Park ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at german.aruba.com , viewed on September 1st, 2007
- ↑ "Nationaal Park Arikok" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at de-antillen.nl , viewed February 6, 2007; referred to here as " Crotalus thurissus unicolor "
- ↑ Wolfgang Wüster / Julia E. Ferguson / J. Adrian Quijida-Mascareñas, Catharine E. Pook, Maria da Graça Salomão, Roger S. Thorpe: "Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus)" ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 798 kB), in Molecular Ecology (2005) 14, Bangor University, p. 1103/1106, online version viewed February 6, 2008
- ↑ cf. Aruba Vacation Packages ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , viewed September 1, 2007
