Viajé a Costa Rica el año pasado, para participar en la reunión anual de una red de antiguos becarios beneficiados por el sistema DAAD alemán. Casi todos son geólogos o investigadores afines a las geociencias que en su momento estudiaron en la antigua Alemania socialista.
[Tomada desde mi móvil Redmi 9A/.Taken from my Redmi 9A cell phone.(Una panorámica de Playa Espadilla/A panoramic view of Playa Espadilla]
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Salimos desde San José en ómnibus y fuimos con rumbo sur hasta la costa del Océano Pacífico.
En el camino, nos detuvimos en el Río Tárcoles, que es una atracción turística por estar infestado de cocodrilos. También pudimos disfrutar de un rico gallo pinto, que es un plato típico equivalente a nuestro arroz congrí con pollo criollo. Todo una delicia, al igual que toda la gastronomía de ese país.
Llegamos en horas de la noche al pueblo de Quepos, que utilizaríamos los siguientes días como base de operaciones.
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Greetings to all my dear readers, I have been a little busy these days and I have lost the sequence of my posts. But I'm back to continue telling you about exotic landscapes of Geology.
On this occasion, we will go to Playa Espadilla in Costa Rica.
I traveled to Costa Rica last year to participate in the annual meeting of a network of former scholarship recipients benefited by the German DAAD system. Almost all of them are geologists or researchers related to geosciences who once studied in the former socialist Germany.
The meeting lasted two days, took place at the Central American School of Geology of the University of Costa Rica and was preceded by an excursion through the beautiful Geology of the country, which ended at the beach that I plan to describe.
We left San José by bus and headed south to the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
On the way, we stopped at the Tárcoles River, which is a tourist attraction for being infested with crocodiles. We were also able to enjoy a delicious gallo pinto, which is a typical dish equivalent to our congrí rice with Creole chicken. Everything is a delight, just like all the gastronomy of that country.
We arrived at night at the town of Quepos, which we would use for the following days as a base of operations.
[Tomada desde mi móvil Redmi 9A/.Taken from my Redmi 9A cell phone.(Uno de los muchos restaurantes del Río Tárcoles, donde se puede disfrutar de la gastronomía costarricense/One of the many restaurants in Río Tárcoles, where you can enjoy Costa Rican cuisine]
[Tomada desde mi móvil Redmi 9A/.Taken from my Redmi 9A cell phone.(Playa Espadilla, en un día soleado, con arenas blancas y finas. Al fondo se puede observar La Isla Luana/Espadilla Beach, on a sunny day, with fine white sand. In the background you can see Luana Island]
[Tomada desde mi móvil Redmi 9A/.Taken from my Redmi 9A cell phone.(Una vista panorámica de la playa con islotes al fondo/A panoramic view of the beach with islets in the background]
[Tomada desde mi móvil Redmi 9A/.Taken from my Redmi 9A cell phone.(Estas rocas son basaltos en almohadillas, son rocas que se forman cuando la lava entra en contacto con el agua de mar y se enfría rápidamente. Significa que se formaron en el fondo oceánico cuando este se estaba abriendo. Las vetillas blancas son de minerales carbonatados que circulan por las grietas de las rocas durante el enfriamiento/These rocks are pillow basalts, they are rocks that form when lava comes into contact with seawater and cools quickly. It means that they formed on the ocean floor when it was opening up. The white veins are carbonate minerals that circulate through the cracks of the rocks during cooling.]
[Estas rocas redondeadas son cantos rodados, se forman durante largos procesos de erosión y se redondean con el ir y venir de las olas. Estos son muy raros, son basaltos ricos en hierro y magnesio, son rocas muy antiguas formadas en eras pasadas. Se llaman picrobasaltos, son fragmentos de una antigua corteza oceánica /These rounded rocks are boulders, they are formed during long erosion processes and are rounded with the coming and going of the waves. These are very rare, they are basalts rich in iron and magnesium, they are very old rocks formed in past eras. They are called picrobasalts, they are fragments of an ancient oceanic crust.]
[Estas rocas no solo son un curioso paisaje, su origen es más curioso aún. Son restos de heces fecales de colonias de antiguos parientes de los manatíes, que vivieron el pasado geológico y crearon suficiente material para que se sedimentara y convirtiera en roca. Se llaman coprolitos/These rocks are not only a curious landscape, their origin is even more curious. They are remains of feces from colonies of ancient relatives of manatees, who lived through the geological past and created enough material to be sedimented and turned into rock. They are called coprolites.]
[La naturaleza se resiste al efecto de la erosión. En este caso, las rocas blancas son rocas calizas, con algun contenido de material volcánico. /Nature resists the effect of erosion. In this case, the white rocks are limestone rocks, with some content of volcanic material.]
Hasta entonces, te deseo todo lo bueno del mundo.
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If you have come this far, I hope you liked Playa Espadilla, I just have to thank you for reading me, and I invite you to accompany me to another encounter with Geology.
Until then, I wish you all the good things in the world.