asphalt lake

a pool formed largely of bitumen (almost entirely carbon and hydrogen, but some oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur) found mainly in southern USA and South America. The La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles are an example, in which trapped animals have been preserved since the Miocene period.

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A nivel mundial hay solo un punado de grandes lagos de asfalto, los mas importantes en orden de tamano, jerarquia e importancia paleontologica, son los siguientes: a) Lago de Guanoco, Venezuela, b) Pitch Lake, isla de Trinidad, c) McKittrick Tar Pits, d) Carpinteria Tar Pits, e) La Brea Tar Pits en el estado de California, EEUU y Binagadi asphalt lake en la region de Baku, Azerbaiyan.

Por ultimo, Binagadi asphalt Lake, esta ubicado en la peninsula de Apsheron, en la ciudad de Baku capital de Azerbaiyan.

Lago de Guanoco, un lago olvidado y sin campos vecinos

Close by is La Brea, the site of Trinidad's astonishing asphalt lake which was discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh and ignored thereafter.

Add to that the methanol plants, cement factories and one of the world's biggest asphalt lakes and you've got the recipe for untold wealth, health and happiness.

TRAVEL: SOC IT TO 'EM; IAIN MAYHEW'S FEELIN' HOT, HOT, HOT AT TRINIDAD'S CARNIVAL

Still, as Jeff Goldblum's character observed in the film "Jurassic Park," "Life finds a way," and Earth is home to its own strange extremophiles: microbes that can thrive in liquid asphalt lakes, tiny animals called tardigrades that can survive the hard vacuum of space, and bacteria that can grow without oxygen.