Admire the surreal scene in the world's largest tar lake

The largest tar lake on the planet is quite hard so people can step on it. People bring tar here to more than 50 countries around the world to make roads.

The surreal scene in the world's largest tar lake

Lake Tarry is located in La Brea village in southwestern Trinidad island in the Caribbean Sea.It is the largest and most important tar lake in the world, with an area of ​​about 41 hectares.The depth in the center of the lake is about 76 m.The pitch is black, but the surface of the lake is relatively solid, so humans can step on it.

Tars are quite soft in some places so visitors can sink if they stand too long.Although the surface of the lake seems rather static, in fact, tar is still moving slowly in a vortex below.

Not only can you see currents below the surface of the lake, but you can also see countless trees from prehistoric times and other objects - like pottery, ancient elephant teeth, fossils of giant lazy species that have extinction.

The process of forming the Tar Lake began several thousand years ago by sinking, when the Caribbean plate tectonic plate slid under another plate.The friction between the two plates created a fault line, allowing oil from underground mines to rise to the surface.Then they flow to a crater.The air makes light elements in the oil sublimate, leaving a mixture of heavy oil, clay and water.

The tar mining operation in the lake began in 1867 and humans took about 10 million tons of tar from that time to spread roads in Trinidad, Tobago and other Caribbean islands.In addition, people use it to spread sugar in more than 50 other countries, including the United States, Britain, India, Singapore, Egypt and even Japan.Experts evaluate tar in La Brea lake of the best quality in the world.

Geological experts predict that the reservoir reserves in the lake amount to about 6 million tons.At the current rate of exploitation, people need 400 more years to remove tar.

Each year about 20,000 visitors visit La Brea Lake.They often swim in lake water, because some therapists claim that sulfur in the water is healthy.

Not only is it a natural wonder, La Brea Lake is also of great economic and social value to the people in La Brea village in particular and the Trinidad and Tobago people in general.People in the Caribbean and many other countries in the world also benefit from it.