Baatara gorge waterfall explained

Baatara gorge sinkhole
Type:Plunge
Location:Chatine, Lebanon
Height Longest:90–
Number Drops:1

The Baatara gorge sinkhole (Baatara gorge waterfall) is a waterfall in the Chatine, Lebanon[1] near Balaa.

The waterfall drops 255m (837feet) into the Balaa Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone[2] located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.[3] The cave is also known as the Cave of the Three Bridges.[4] Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the village of Balaa, and the Three Bridges Chasm (in French Gouffre des Trois Ponts) is a five-minute journey into the valley below where one sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and overhanging a chasm descending into Mount Lebanon. During the spring melt, a 90m–100mm (300feet–300feetm) cascade falls behind the three bridges and then down into the 240m (790feet) chasm.[5]

Discovered to the western world in 1952 by French bio-speleologist Henri Coiffait,[6] the waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by the Spéléo club du Liban.[7] A 1988 fluorescent dye test demonstrated that the water emerged at the spring of Dalleh in Mgharet al-Ghaouaghir[8] [9] (located near Balaa).[10]

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Notes and References

  1. http://listphobia.com/2010/01/12/10-most-beautiful-waterfalls-of-the-world/ 10 Most Beautiful Waterfalls of the World
  2. Web site: Balaa Pothole Lebanon . Tourism Lebanon . tourism-lebanon.com . 24 June 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110202043549/http://www.tourism-lebanon.com/BalaaLebanon.asp . 2 February 2011 .
  3. Web site: The Lebanon Mountain Trail Project . 10 June 2008 . . 24 June 2010.
  4. Book: Paul . Courbon. Claude . Chabert . Peter . Bosted . Karen . Lindsley . Atlas of the Great Caves of the World . 1989 . Cave Books . 131 . 978-0-939748-21-1 .
  5. Web site: La région de Tannourine . 2010-07-15 . De ses 240 mètres de hauteur ... C’est le plus impressionnant des trois, surtout que durant la saison de fonte des neiges, une cascade d’eau s’y forme, tombant en chute libre sur 90 mètres. . LibanVision . fr.
  6. Web site: Baatara Gorge – the Waterfall that Drops into a Cave. 16 August 2011.
  7. Web site: Baatara Pothole . Heatheronhertravels.com . 13 March 2010 . 24 June 2010.
  8. Web site: Ballouh Baatura, or The Three Bridges Chasm in Balaa . Hani . Abdul-Nour . 2010-07-15 . DiscoverLebanon.com .
  9. Book: Terry . Carter . Lara . Dunston . Andrew . Humphreys . Syria & Lebanon . 2004 . Lonely Planet . 291 . registration . 978-1-86450-333-3 .
  10. Web site: Baatara Gorge Waterfall – Lebanon. FreshTravelDestinations.com. February 14, 2016.

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