Niagara Falls



Niagara Falls

Introduction

The Niagara Falls is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world. Portrayed by tourists and cinema on countless occasions, are partially in the United States and partly in Canada and is an image that is part of the collective imagination of the West. Falls means the thunder of the waters and a name is absolutely right, because the falls produce a sound that cannot hear any sound: there are fifteen thousand cubic meters of water falling from a height of 47 meters.

They are located between Lake Erie and Ontario, although provision has changed over time due to erosion by the force of the water has been spending the rock and pushing back the waterfall into Lake Erie and distancing of Ontario, upon which fell about 20,000 years ago (and now far more than 10 kilometers.

Discussion

Tourism

With more than 19 million visitors each year, Niagara Falls is one of the most popular tourist spots in North America. The falls are divided into two by Goat Island: the Horseshoe Falls are one side, Ontario, and the American Falls on the other, in the State of New York. At a height of about 56 meters, the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in the shape of a horseshoe are particularly spectacular, extending over a width of 670 meters and debiting of 155 million liters of water per minute (Tieck, 2008).

American Falls occupy a width of 305 meters and is 57 meters high and their flow is 14 million gallons of water per minute. The boats allow tourists to get too close to the falls and you can access the back of the falls through underground tunnels. For this tour, the best advice is to not forget the waterproof camera. Natural increased by the variety of methods used to as possible to facilitate access to the falls. Boats, bridges, and observation towers helicopter approaching the large water curtain (Scholastic, 2006).

History

Niagara is derived from the Iroquois word "Onguiaahra", which means the strait. Anglicized by missionaries, this term appears on maps as early as 1640. The historical roots of Niagara Falls are in the ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago. Both the Great Lakes region of North America and the Niagara River are effects of these continental glaciations. It was a huge glacier that advanced on the eastern part of Canada and a large excavator grinding rocks and soil, removing and deepening some channels of rivers to turn them into lakes. Thus, the little river became the world's most famous waterfalls (Wallace, 2006).

Geography

Niagara Falls is located on the Niagara River between Lakes Erie and Ontario in eastern North America, on the border between the United States and Canada. The waterfall is partly in Canada and partly in the U.S., and is divided Goat Island. The title refers to three separate waterfalls. American Falls is 51 meters in height (due to rocks at the base of the actual height of the water fall is 20 feet) and 330 meters in width, and the Canadian Horseshoe ...