Tsingy de Bemaraha, "Where one cannot walk barefoot"

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The Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park is a national park located in Melaky Region, Madagascar. The national park centers on two geological formations: the Great Tsingy and the Little Tsingy. Together with the adjacent Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, the National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Published: 2012-02-26 20:00:00 UTC

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Karstic Plateaus

The Tsingys are karstic plateaus in which groundwater has undercut the elevated uplands, and has gouged caverns and fissures into the limestone.

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Erosion Patterns

Because of local conditions, the erosion is patterned vertically as well as horizontally.

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Forests of Limestone Needles

In several regions on western Madagascar, centering on this National Park and adjacent Nature Reserve, the superposition of vertical and horizontal erosion patterns has created dramatic "forests" of limestone needles.

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Where one cannot walk barefoot

The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the karst badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as where one cannot walk barefoot.

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Karst Formations

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Clouds in the Sky over the Tsingies