Where is the valley with the highest palms in the world (photos)
The trees that goes up into the sky.
Amazing wax palm trees that reach a height of 80 metres and can live up to 120 years, are the symbol and landmark of Colombia. In this country even has a special place, where tourists come from all over the world to admire these unusual trees.
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And arrive in the national Park “cocora Valley”, which is part of a larger national Park “Los Nevados” area of over 60 thousand square kilometers. Palm valley is located in the upper reaches of Quindio, at an altitude of between 1800 and 2400 meters in the North-West Colombia.
Here, anyone would feel tiny, because the tops of the trees literally rested in the clouds.
Centuries these trees serve the people: the wax that covers the trunk of the tree was used to make candles and Soaps, fruit — feeding of livestock, and wood built houses.
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Due to the frequent use of palm trees, their number began to decline sharply. And so in 1985 the government of Colombia issued a decree, according to which, man, cut the wax or the palm, will have to wait for the death penalty.
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Now these majestic trees fill “the Valley of cocora”, and to admire them annually attracts thousands of tourists from around the world.
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