And why does the Mexican Caribbean have turquoise colors? There are different factors that determine the impressive colors of the Caribbean Sea, let's look
To speak of the Mexican Caribbean is to make it the wonderful colors that dress it. We immediately felt bewitched by the Caribbean for its spectacular colors. We are going to know why the Mexican Caribbean has turquoise colors, and for that we will start with the basics.
There are several factors that determine the color of the water of the seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, lagoons, cenotes. Each place has its own characteristics that make us see the water in different colors.
Let's be curious
What color is the water?
The water is blue. The blue color of the water is due to the selective absorption of light. When light passes through the water, it absorbs the wavelengths in different ways, the red ones being absorbed and the blue ones (the complementary one) those that penetrate the water. Hence its color.
Why do we sometimes see the colorless water?
The water in small quantities, as in a glass of water, the blue is barely perceived because the amount of water is small so that the absorption of the radiation is appreciated. In larger volumes, we do see it.
You can notice it filling a bathtub with water, here you already begin to notice a faint blue. The greater the volume of water, the greater the amount of red absorption, and the more blue it looks.
Why the Mexican Caribbean has turquoise colors?
The depth, which gives volume to the sea, marks the more or less intense blues. The Mexican Caribbean has constant depth changes, due to the nearby barrier of coral that creates different reefs and sand of uneven depths.
In the same way the surface also gives one or other colors. So we can appreciate the turquoise blue colors blend in the wonderful Caribbean Sea.
A basic factor in determining color is the transparency of the water, which occurs when water contains few substances in suspension or few organisms. The most intense blue occurs in crystal clear waters, it reaches its highest purity. The organisms reduce the penetration of light into the water, that is, its transparency, making the waters greener.
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The Mexican Caribbean is a sea with few organisms, a very transparent sea, which means a very blue sea. If you take photos in the transparent Caribbean waters, it will be difficult to remove the intense predominant blue. The deeper the blue, the dominant blue in your photographs.
When sunlight falls on seawater, part of its radiation is absorbed and transformed into heat, and the other part is dispersed by the water itself. water molecules. It is where the minerals of the limestone rock are dissolved, which help to tint the Caribbean with a special intense turquoise.
In the Chiapas region we also observe these turquoise colors. The same rock is limestone: its minerals and the condition of crystalline waters give us these intense and beautiful colors.
White sand on the Caribbean beaches
La White sand from this Mexican coast it helps to reflect in a more pure way, without predominant, the blue color. The limestone rock mantle of the Mexican Caribbean has minerals that are soluble in water. These limestone rock minerals are fundamental in the color of the Caribbean Sea as we have seen.
The Caribbean parrotfish is one of the elements that helps in the process of creating white sand.
Other factors that give water color
The physicochemical characteristics of the sea, such as its salinity or its temperature, also shape the colors. It has been proven that in the seas with cold waters the light penetrates less, at 400 meters the most complete darkness invades you.
Blue frequencies can travel many meters through the clear, warm and deep waters of the Caribbean.
The geographical situation also affects the colors, and the position of the sun. The best time to appreciate the colors of the Caribbean Sea is the solar hours of the zenith, when the sun is higher. It is when the water absorbs greater beam of light, and more blue penetrates the water.
There are many factors that come together in a mathematical way to create the beauty of the colors of the Mexican Caribbean. An exquisite pleasure to savor this transparent Caribbean of entangling blues.
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Very good explanation, I did not know some details about the coloring of the sea. With your entry I imagine it being a canvas where blue plays with water to dress in a thousand ways. Thank you
I also thank you for a beautiful entry in text and images.
I loved! A hug
My imagination flew thinking about the exclusivity of the Caribbean water and your explanation brought me to reality, it is simpler and clearer and logical explanation, but the fact of only seeing it so special bellay makes you fly the imagination and does not think the mind porq leaves or he wants to feel it magic. But a good thought and knowledge brought to the mind by another makes you easily understand that there is no magic but a privileged place because of its depth composition light and serenity of the winds and then we fall into reality what does not take away the moment anyway to never forget to see so much beauty in an immense sea. For the love of water it is pleasure and more pleasure to see beauty of such magnitude and we lose the physical concept of such conformation.
For me, I appreciate your explanation that I refresh all that I learned as a young person in separate ways that when they are joined, they give the result of such an equation, easy but forgotten, and I still imagine that it is a magical place.
Every person in the world, unable to afford expensive travel because they do not have purchasing power, would have to be protected by the rest of the world with a law that once in their life they would have to be able to see such wonder and not just be left for those who enjoy a good living.
We live in the same world, unique and of all but we die without hardly knowing an 1% of the world.
I create an unjust and disinterested human nature that does not protect everyone to know the beauty of our world, the world of all.
To me personally see the beauty of the world proboca q my soul grows more compressive try to be better, because our planet screams at us here everything, if time you no longer understand internal selfishness teaches us that there is nothing more valuable generous and free that everything that delivers the place where we live and no one has even understood.
I AM, MODESTLY LILIANA ESTHER MEDINA. AND TRULY CLARIFY Q CAREZCO OF FALSE MODESTY, Q I FEEL GREAT AS THE WORLD AND THE ONLY IN Q Siento TRUE HUMILITY IS BEFORE SO BEAUTY Q MAKE MY TIP LEAD.
I WISH YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE WORLD AS MY HEART SEES.
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Hello Liliana. Your text really touched my soul.
Do not meet one every day with people with that sensitivity that you express, and what a shame, I have 28 years, I do not live anything near Cancun, but my biggest dream, since adolescence, has been to know those turquoise waters, that white sand ... now with my own means and a lot of effort, and it is not long before I can achieve it, if life allows me to do it clearly. Today is my birthday and if in fact I was very happy excited and sensitive, your words touched the last fiber in me, I think just like you: we should all have the opportunity at least once in life to appreciate these wonders ...