Worldwide Famous Yosemite National Park USA : What’s Inside It?
Yosemite National Park is located in the western slopes of Sierra Nevada, in State of California, USA. Yosemite National Park is one the world’s most popular national park.
Yosemite National Park spreads over 761,266 acres large. And as a designated national park, Yosemite is largely recognized for it’s granite cliffs, waterfalls, the streams, and the various biological terms. Granitic rocks is the one which characterizes this site. Yosemite National Park is made as World Heritage Site in 1984. The various kinds of biological diversity in this site can be seen from some of the popular features in Yosemite National Park. Some among them are granitic dome like
- Half Dome and El Capitan ;
- Carved deep river like Tuolumne and merced river (900-1200 meters deep);
- waterfalls (Bridalveil Fall, Ribbon Falls), etc.
Kukulkan pyramid
One of the biggest temple built in Chichén Itzá area is Kukulkan. According to Mayan legend, Kukulkan is a Snake God, a incarnation of Quetzalcoatl. Kukulkan is a stary pyramid with terraces. In each side to pyramid, stares are found to reach into the top of the Kukulkan pyramid.
In the top of the pyramid, there’s a path to King Kukulkan’ Jaguar Stone Crowd, which colored red with green dots.
Red Jaguar and Chac Mool
Around the temples complex, there’s a statue called Red Jaguar. According to Bishop Landa, in this place in past there were veneration. The sacrifice can be jaguar, turtles, turkeys, dogs or all animal’s heart. Or sometimes the sacrifice were human.
There are eight statues of Chac Mool in Chichén Itzá area too. Chac Mool is statue depicting human with head hold-up. Read more