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Greetings to all my dear readers. The end of the year is approaching, and I was going through my photo archive and found some scattered photos of a special place in our geography, and I have decided to share it with you. I visited it precisely around this time, with cloudy days and a lot of wind.
Without further ado, I present to you Nibujón Beach, located halfway between Moa and Baracoa.
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Usualmente, la utilizamos como punto de interés geológico, para que nuestros estudiantes aprecien las playas erosivas y la acción geológica del mar. También es interesante porque en la playa sucede un fenómeno curioso. En el punto de contacto entre el Río Nibujón y la Playa se forma un banco de arena llamado tibaracón (no tengo una traducción para este término en inglés). Un tibaracón se forma debido a que en el contacto entre los dos cuerpos de agua, el río pierde su fuerza y deposita la carga en sedimentos y rocas, creando un banco de arena. Cuanto mas grande sea el río, y mayor su caudal, mayor será el tibaracón. Es necesario algo más, y es que la costa sea poco profunda, de lo contrario no se formará tibaracón alguno.
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As I said before, Nibujón is accessed via the Moa-Baracoa highway, which, by the way, has been very bad for some years to travel by light car. The beach is of the erosive type and does not have a coral barrier in front, like other beaches in the area, which makes it a beach with strong waves and dangerous currents. Not recommended for bathing with minors or people who generally do not know how to swim.
We usually use it as a point of geological interest, so that our students can appreciate the erosive beaches and the geological action of the sea. It is also interesting because a curious phenomenon happens on the beach. At the point of contact between the Nibujón River and the Beach, a sandbank called tibaracón is formed (I do not have a translation for this term in English). A tibaracón is formed because at the contact between the two bodies of water, the river loses its strength and deposits the load in sediments and rocks, creating a sandbank. The larger the river, and the greater its flow, the greater the tibaracón. Something else is necessary, and that is that the coast be shallow, otherwise no tibaracón will form.
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Under water, because the sand is permeable, there is communication between the fresh water of the river and the salt water of the sea. At low tide, the river water is mostly fresh, and at high tide, the river water becomes brackish. This allows bathers to bathe in fresh and salt water on the same beach.
Sin lugar a dudas, esta playa constituye un bonito paisaje de la geografía del oriente cubano. En verano sus aguas son más acogedoras para los bañistas y es posible disfrutar de variadas ofertas gastronómicas.
Si has llegado hasta aqui, solo me resta agradecerte por leerme, espero que te haya gustado tanto como a mi, y te invito a encontrarnos otra vez, en otro apasionante sitio de interés geológico. Hasta entonces, te deseo todo lo bueno del mundo.
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The sands of this beach are dark in color. This is because the Nibujón River rises in the mountains of the Moa-Baracoa massif, where the rocks that predominate are rich in iron and magnesium, which gives this special color to the sands it drags. In short, sand is nothing more than the result of the destruction of rocks upstream, which are carried by the current. The longer the river, the more rounded and finished the resulting sand is.
Without a doubt, this beach constitutes a beautiful landscape of the geography of eastern Cuba. In summer its waters are more welcoming for bathers and it is possible to enjoy varied gastronomic offerings.
If you have come this far, all that remains for me is to thank you for reading, I hope you liked it as much as I did, and I invite you to meet again, in another exciting site of geological interest. Until then, I wish you all the good things in the world.
- I used DeepL translator in its free version, as my native language is Spanish.