Mammoth Cave National Park USA

Mammoth Cave
In North America, USA, Kentucky, Appalachian National Park is located Mammoth Cave National Park. In the past it used to mine hospital scene and others, that's what has been declared a national park in 1941 in order to preserve its natural beauty, flora and fauna in. Since UNESCO has declared a natural monument Heritage in 1981. The nearest town, which lies to Mammoth Cave National Park is Cave City. Its formation by mother nature millions of years has continued and the earth is the longest cave system, which has a length of 590 km. The first visitors to the cave were ancient Indians used the reed torches to move in the dark.

Broadway is called the main entrance of the cave that leads to a system of rooms, caves, corridors, passages and labyrinths. The situation of the whole system has five floors, as "the Dome of the mammoth" is the largest hall, which is high seventy-five m long, one hundred and twenty meters wide and fifty meters. Other notable rooms are the "Gothic Cathedral," "Ballroom," "Giant's grave," "Magic Cave" and "Great Rotunda 'can accommodate thousands of tourists inside. In the cave were found many archaeological artifacts and mummies of people who attest to human visits to more than 4,000 years. Legend says that in 1790 a hunter chased a bear in Green River, and so came across the passage to the Mammoth Cave National Park.

When the U.S. and England fought in the eighteenth century in the Mammoth Cave National Park is derived substances in the preparation of gunpowder from the slave miners. Mammoth Cave National Park several times and change its owner at the time when the owner is Hyman Graz guides he used his slaves. It has many merits for the discovery of many new galleries, underground rivers, and in making maps of unknown places in the Mammoth Cave National Park.

Like many rich and varied to determine the fauna of the cave in which they found about 130 different types of creatures and plants and inhabited by insects, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals and plants. Some of them have no pigment, while the other 12 are without eyes (blind, blind fish, for example). It can meet snakes, bats, turtles, lizards, spiders, snails and others in Mammoth Cave National Park .









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