Photos: Rainbow River, The River of Five Colours

A waterfall is seen at the end of the rainy season in August, when the water level finally decreases on the Cano Cristales river in Colombia. The water becomes covered with a bright pink aquatic plant, Macarenia Clavigera. (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

Photographer Olivier Grunewald has taken wonderful photos of the beautiful ‘Rainbow River’.

The Cano Cristales is a small river of five colours that attracts tourists around the world to Colombia every year.

During the summer months, colourful plants blossom under the surface to transform the waters into the ‘river of five colours’.

The small, beautiful river located in the Macarena National Park is also known as ‘El rio mas bonito del Mundo’, the ‘Rainbow River’ and the ‘Escape from Paradise’ to the locals.

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This stunning picture shows the river flowing over the colourful plants on the way down a small waterfall. (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

In this incredible picture, the plant can be seen growing and floating under the surface of the river (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

A bright pink water plant covered the surface of the river after the rainy season ended in August. (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

Bright pink, green and yellow plants envelope the surface of the water (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

A bright pink water plant covered the surface of the river after the rainy season ended in August. (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

Water from the Cano Cristales river crashes down into a pit surrounded by vibrant plants (Photograph by Olivier Grunewald)

 

Aires Flight 8520 Crash Landed On A Caribbean Island-Photos

Police officers walk near the wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed in the Caribbean resort island of San Andres, August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Handout/Navy Press

On Monday a Boeing 737 plane crash landed in San Andres Island, Colombia.

1 person died and 6 were seriously injured.

The plane crashed in a thunderstorm at 1:49 am.

It slided on the runway and broke apart.

The report says that the pilot’s name is Wilson Gutierrez.

He is a great pilot because he can stop the plane from hitting the airport.

The wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed in the Caribbean resort island of San Andres, August 16, 2010. (AFP/ Richard Garcia)

If the plane hit the airport, more people will be killed.

It will then be a bigger disaster.

People don’t know if the aeroplane was hit by a lightning or a gust of wind.

And firefighters had stopped the beginning of fire on a wing.

It is the opposite when everybody in the Pakistani plane crash were killed.

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XBOG102 ** A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died. (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)

The wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed at San Andres island airport, August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Courtesy-RCN/TVNews

The wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed at San Andres island airport, August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Courtesy-RCN/TVNews

The wreckage of the plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno/ Richard Garcia)

Powerful Earthquake Struck Chile

Another major earthquake happened  just after a 7.0 earthquake hit Okinawa.

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit central Chile early Saturday.

Chile is in South America.

At least 6 people were killed.

This is a very powerful earthquake.

May be more people were killed.

The earthquake was located near the city of Concepcion.

Concepcion is the second largest city in Chile.

The city is 212 miles (341km) from capital Santiago.

The earthquake struck at 3:34 am (1:34am ET).

There are reports of collapsed building in Santiago.

So far CNN has not reported the destruction in Conception.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for Chile and Peru.

Tsunami watch has been issued for Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

The center recorded a tsunami wave as high as 9 feet.

According to USGS the largest earthquake in the world was recorded in Chile.

It happened on May 22, 1960 with a magnitude of 9.5 killing 1665 people.

This is a real disaster and I am very sad to learn about this news.

I hope that we can stop the earthquakes.