Sentences with phrase «square kilometers along»
Santa Marta is a convenient and popular place to stay for those heading into Tayrona National Park, the vast, mountainous national park covering roughly 300 square kilometers along the coastline that stretches deep into the mountains.
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The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran's border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.
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In 1986, Venezuela's Raúl Leoni Dam flooded 1,660 square miles (4,300 square kilometers) of land, creating the vast Lake Guri, along with a scattering of nonsubmerged land.
Larsen C, covering about 55,000 square kilometers, is the largest ice shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula.
Lightning is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has threatened the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, America's oldest Buddhist monastery in the Big Sur region of California.
In recent fieldwork in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, Wohl studied the wetlands and floodplains upstream of beaver dams — areas collectively called «beaver meadows» — along 27 streams draining watersheds covering more than 700 square kilometers.
Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago.The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometers and its capital is Port - au - Prince.
The city of Burnaby real estate goes along 98.60 square kilometers, or 38.07 miles, and sits in the physical centre of the Vancouver metropolitan region.
The team of oceanographers, whale biologists and avian ecologists are participating in the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula each year.