Location: Halong Bay is located in northeastern Vietnam, is part of the western Gulf, including the sea area of Ha Long City, Cam Pha Town and part of Van Don island district. Southwestern borders Cat Ba Island, the west land with 120 km long coastline, the Gulf has a total area of 1553 km2, including 1969 islands, of which 989 islands and 980 named islands not named. World Heritage Area is recognized as an area 434 km2, including 775 islands, such as a triangle with three vertices of Dau Go Island (west), Ba Ham Lake (south) and Cong Tay Island (east) .
Halong Bay is a unique heritage by these sites contain important traces in the process of formation and development of earth's history, the cradle of the ancient Vietnamese resident, who is art great visual nature with the presence of thousands of islands much diversified, with many interesting caves clustered into a vivid world has both mystery. Besides, Ha Long Bay is a place to focus a high biodiversity with typical ecosystem with thousands of plant and animal species are abundant and diverse. This was also associated with cultural values - proud history of the nation.
Aesthetic values, Halong Bay features a system of islands and beautiful caves. Island in Ha Long Island there are two types of limestone and schist islands, concentrated in two main areas of southeast Bai Tu Long Bay and southwestern part of Ha Long Bay. This is the oldest image of the terrain tectonic age from 250-280 million years, as a result of the campaign raised, lowered several times from the mainland into the sea basin. Carxto process corrosion, weathering almost entirely to create a unique Halong world.
Hundreds of islands, each island offers a different shape very lively: than my head, Dragon Island, Hon La Vong, Hon sail, roof, Hon Lu Huong ... Implicit in his heart of stone islands are beautiful caves associated with many miraculous legends such as Thien Cung, Dau Go cave, Sung Sot, Trinh Nu cave, Tam Cung ... It really is the castle of the midst of earthly creation. From time immemorial, Ha Long Bay has been great poet Nguyen Trai ethnic dubbed as "the land between high heaven."
Geological value of Ha Long Bay is assessed by two factors: a history of tectonic and geological landforms. The basic features of Ha Long Bay is the transgression 1000 years to expand the Gulf, up the beach erosion by rote, the Gulf countries in more than salt and coral growth. Corrosion process of actively creating seawater shortly after adding the beauty of the unique excitement Carxto stratigraphy. Ha Long Bay as a result of geological evolutionary long run. Visitors to Ha Long Bay is not only to the wonders of the world, but also to a precious geological museum was preserved up to 300 million years outdoors. The cave is vivid evidence of the process of sea intrusion through the geological record. Geological environment of Ha Long Bay is also a platform other values arises as biodiversity, archeology and culture of other human values.
Halong Bay focused high biodiversity ecosystems of tropical waters such as mangrove ecosystem, the ecosystem of coral reefs, seagrass ecosystems, forest ecosystems and tropical especially farm ecosystem-specific parts.
So far preliminary vegetation assessment in Ha Long Bay has about 347 species of vascular plants and 95 232 they spend. Of the 347 known species, 16 species are listed as Vietnam's red and about endangered endangered. In the rare plant species, 95 species of medicinal plants, 37 species of ornamental plants, 13 species of fruit trees and 10 groups have different usability.
The islands in Ha Long Bay is the species diversity of molluscs, especially the resident species in the gorge, and has 60 endemic species. Ha Long Fisheries and aquaculture operators, including abalone, sea cucumber, devotees, shrimp, fish, squid (squid, cuttlefish, squid size), octopus, oysters, mussels and pearls breeding messages ...
Ha Long Bay is a land carrying the glorious history, the heroic peoples of Vietnam and the famous as Van Don - where the ancient trading port busy in the 12th century, with Bai Tho Mountain history, and not far away is the Bach Dang River - evidence of two illustrious naval battle of generations of ancestors against invaders. Not only that, Ha Long is one of the cradles of human beings with the glorious Halong culture Late Neolithic period in the archaeological sites known as Dong Mang, Chain Tho, Soi Nhu, Well shuttle ...
On 17/12/1994, during the 18th session of World Heritage Committee of UNESCO held in Thailand, Ha Long Bay was officially recognized as a world natural heritage with exceptional value in terms ofaesthetic, by the standards of international conventions on protection of natural and cultural world. On 12/02/2000, at the 24th Conference in the city of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, the World Heritage Committee has recognized Ha Long Bay World Heritage Site is the 2nd standard geological value and geomorphology. Currently, Quang Ninh province is promoting filed UNESCO Heritage Ha Long Bay is the 3rd world, based on the archaeological value and biodiversity in the Gulf.
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