Sentences with phrase «square kilometer site»

A small army of workers and heavy equipment currently inhabit the 6.5 square kilometer site of the future eco-city.

It took nearly a decade's worth of work, but Iraq finally has its first national park: the Central Marshes of Iraq, a 1,000 square kilometer site filled with marshlands that had previously been systematically drained by Saddam Hussein because of their usefulness as a hiding place during wartime.

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Thousands of eggs litter the square - kilometer site near Auca Mahuida today, so many that researchers call the area Auca Mahuevo — huevo is Spanish for «egg.»

The survey of 2,100 - square kilometers encompassed several major Maya sites, including the largest at Tikal, and El Zotz, where Garrison focuses his research.

This is now one of the most extensive sites of these features known anywhere in the world, covering more than 10,000 square kilometers.

Though its 509 square miles (1,320 square kilometers) was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001, its concrete paths are crumbling.

One such event 5600 years ago spawned a rush of rock and mud that overran 550 square kilometers of surrounding land — including the current sites of the towns of Buckley and Enumclaw and the outskirts of Tacoma.

In particular, vast expanses of continuous coral cover, extending for tens of square kilometers, exist in many sites in the «Au'au channel off the southwest side of Maui.

For each of Rosetta's candidate sites, a larger area — four - tenths of a square mile (one square kilometer)-- was assessed.

The park consists of 225 + square kilometers Guided tour of Tikal Maya site itself.

The site of Caracol contains about 267 structures per square kilometer, which is actually more than popular Mayan ruin site Tikal in neighboring Guatemala.

Covering 200 square kilometers, the site is believed to at one time have covered an area larger than Belize City, the largest metropolitan area in Belize.

Only about 177 square kilometers of the entire site have been excavated so far, but the parts that have been are very impressive.

106,000 square feet of meeting facilities are available on - site, and the Reno - Sparks Convention Center is only 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) away.

Located in Belize's western Cayo District near the capital of Belmopan, St. Herman's Blue Hole National Park is a site of natural beauty spanning more than 500 acres (2 square kilometers) in size.

Our analysis [13] estimates the average cost of protecting and monitoring tigers effectively at all 42 source sites at $ 82 million per year or $ 930 / km2 per year, within the range of effective protected area costs in general (from $ 130 to > $ 5,000 / square kilometer / year for densely settled regions in Asia)[26].