Mud volcanoes – Azerbaijan’s greatest natural wonders [PHOTO]

By Laman Ismayilova

The Land of Fire is property to numerous amazing organic miracles,
Azernews experiences.

From emerald forests to majestic waterfalls, there are various
pure sights in Azerbaijan that are ready to be explored.

Mud volcanoes are undoubtedly a person of the country’s most-frequented
all-natural attractionsç encouraging men and women to travel to much-flung
places just to catch a glimpse of this normal miracle.

In full, there are about 700 mud volcanoes in the planet and 350
of them are situated in Azerbaijan, Azernews studies.

NASA geologists learning Mars concluded that the mud volcanoes
of Azerbaijan are related to the uplands of the world in their
composition.

World’s greatest mud volcano

Toragay is the greatest mud volcano in the earth, which is
found in the south of Gobustan.

The top of the volcano is 400 meters, and the volcanic crater
is 150 meters in diameter. The mud volcano erupted 6 times from
1841 to 1950.

In 2004, the Toragay mud volcano was additional to the Guinness World
Records.

Boyuk Kanizadag is another mud volcano that thrills absolutely everyone who
sees it.

It is recognized as the major mud volcano on the territory of
Gobustan. This mud volcano erupted on October 10, 2001, taking pictures
out flames 300 meters in the air.

Found in the suburb of Baku, the Otman Bozdag mud volcano
erupted in 2017. The Azerbaijan Nationwide Academy of Sciences (ANAS)
declared that two eruptions had been recorded in the territory of the
Sangachal settlement, Garadagh district. This was the 9th eruption
of the mud volcano.

Mud Volcanoes Tourism Complicated

In 2021, the groundbreaking ceremony was held for Mud Volcanoes
Tourism Sophisticated in Gobustan.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban
Aliyeva attended the function.

The Mud Volcanoes Tourism Intricate will be proven 59
kilometers south-western Baku, about 17 kilometers north-western
Gobustan settlement, on the major street to Shamakhi location. This
territory is regarded as Gilinj mud volcanoes spot.

The choice to build a tourism elaborate right here was built upon the
analysis of this destination’s tourism prospective. Therefore, one more
tourism infrastructure job is underway in the “Point out
Program for the Socioeconomic Improvement of the Areas for
2019-2023”.

The 12-hectare intricate is anticipated to consist of a quad bike route,
footpaths, a zip line and an observation tower, a parking great deal, a
memento store, as effectively as therapeutic baths.

There are also options to prolong a 20-kilometer road from the
Gobustan Reserve to Gilinj and encompassing volcanoes and develop the
Baku-Gobustan-Mud volcanoes tourism cluster.

Exceptional and unusual minerals

Studies have unveiled the existence of unusual types of minerals,
non-precise sulfates, oxides, all-natural iron, and numerous other
aspects in the mud volcanic breccia.

Notice that volcanic breccia is composed generally of a mixture of clay
mass with fragments of really hard rocks.

The studies counsel that these minerals were formed less than the
impact of deep mud volcano fluids.

Abundant in minerals, mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan can be employed for
medicinal functions.

Mud is regarded suitable for cure if it consists of a large
variety of organic compounds, iodine, bromine, hydrogen sulfide,
and so forth.

In common, the therapeutic homes of about 40 types of volcanic
mud have been studied and confirmed by biochemical assessment.

The volcanic mud of Akhtarma Garadag, Dashgil, Bahar, and
Masazir are the most researched in the nation from a health-related place of
perspective.

They are regarded as very similar to nutritious mud uncovered in Akhtala,
Georgia.

Mud resort of Ga owing to the high written content of bromine,
iodine, boron, and other natural compounds.

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