Venezuela had glaciers?
this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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It has/had a pretty large representation of many different climates. Desert and glaciers, tundra, rainforests, Savannah, tropical, swamps, you name it. Sadly most venezuelans never got to visit them
I too was surprised, since Venezuela is almost on the equator.
For those not too good at unit conversions:
1 hectare is 10,000 sqft
1 hectare is also 2.47 acres
So the ice field is less than 20,000 sqft, less than 4.9 acres.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrunk so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field.
The country had been home to six glaciers in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida mountain range, which lies at about 5,000m above sea level.
The Humboldt glacier was projected to last at least another decade, but scientists had been unable to monitor the site for a few years due to political turmoil in the country.
“Other countries lost their glaciers several decades ago after the end of the little ice age but Venezuela is arguably the first one to lose them in modern times,” said Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian who maintains a chronicle of extreme temperature records online.
The world has recently been experiencing the El Niño climate phenomenon, which leads to hotter temperatures and which experts say can accelerate the demise of tropical glaciers.
In a last-ditch attempt to save the glacier, the Venezuelan government has installed a thermal blanket to prevent further melting, but experts say it is an exercise in futility.
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huh. what percentage of irrigation/drinking water was icemelt?
Most of Venezeula's interior is rainforest, so probably very little.
There it is again, that funny feeling.
Crazy how Venezuela is only an ice field today, used to be quite a big country...
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