Velká Amerika: The Czech Grand Canyon

Velká Amerika , or the Great America , is an abandoned limestone quarry located nigh the hamlet of Mořina , inwards the Central Bohemian Region of the Czechia , simply a few kilometers from Prague. This partially flooded elongated trench is the country’s well-nigh photogenic “natural” attraction to live on conceived past times human activities. The Czechs affectionately telephone scream upwardly it the Grand Canyon of the Czech Republic.

Quarrying activities started inwards this percentage inwards the slow 19th century inwards reply to the slap-up require for the stone. Limestone was used to a greater extent than frequently than non inwards industries , to refine saccharide from saccharide beet , inwards boom furnaces for producing Fe in addition to inwards industry of drinking glass , with others. Mining activities increased 1 time to a greater extent than subsequently the outset World War , in addition to the quarries at Mořina became deeper in addition to longer , until Velká Amerika became an 800-meter long in addition to 100-meter deep gash on the landscape. After mining functioning ceased inwards 1963 , rainwater flooded the hole forming a lake at the bottom.

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