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(#11) Laguna Colorada
- Salt lake
Where It's Located: Tomás Frías, Bolivia
Why It's Unusual: Laguna Colorada is home to a wide variety of species, including alpacas, Andean foxes, cats, llamas, pumas, and the nearly extinct James's flamingo. Lying some 14,000 feet above sea level, it attracts plenty of tourists. But it's not just the flamingos that attract people to this Bolivian lake - it's also the water's strange color. Thanks to red algae, much of the water is a brilliant red. Borax deposits create stripes of white, creating a visually impressive contrast. The lake has been named a “Ramsar Wetland of International Importance" and is part of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve.
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(#3) Grand Prismatic Spring
- Location
Where It's Located: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Why It's Unusual: The Grand Prismatic Spring is one of the many incredible sights you'll see when you travel to Yellowstone National Park. It's not a lake - actually it's a geyser that's 121 feet deep and has a diameter of 370 feet. In fact, it's so wide and so deep that when a person illegally flew a drone into the geyser, it was never seen again.
Its water, which is a brilliant blue, is ringed with bands of orange, yellow, and green. These layers exist thanks to thermophilic bacteria that live in the varying temperatures of different parts of the water. The middle is blue thanks to the scattering of blue light wavelengths.
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(#5) Lake Pukaki
- Lake
Where It's Located: Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand
Why It's Unusual: Lake Pukaki is one of the most beautiful lakes in New Zealand - so much so that it was actually used as the setting for Lake Town in the live-action film The Hobbit. It was first formed when a receding glacier blocked its associated valley. Its distinct cyan color comes thanks to the melting glacier, which deposits glacial flour (finely ground rock found in the glacier) into the lake.
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(#8) The Devil's Bath Is Laden With Floating Sulfur
Where It's Located: Waiotapu, New Zealand
Why It's Unusual: The Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland is a hotbed of volcanic activity, with a wide range of breathtaking sights to behold. One of the most fascinating is the Devil's Bath, a relatively sedate lake that's a striking neon green. The lake isn't bursting with volcanic reactions like other parts of the park, but its color more than makes up for it. This strange hue looks radioactive, but it's actually caused by sulfur deposits that rise to the surface of the lake. Unfortunately, this means that the lake also smells like sulfur, so you might want to look from a distance.
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(#4) Lake Hillier
- Lake
Where It's Located: Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia
Why It's Unusual: Lake Hillier is a striking pink color that contrasts dramatically with the nearby Pacific Ocean. It was first discovered in 1802, but the reason for its pink hue wasn't discovered until later - in fact, it's not even fully understood now.
Most scientists studying the lake think it has something to do with the Dunaliella salina algae, which produce carotenoids, a pigment that's also present in carrots. However, some think the color might be thanks to the halophilic bacteria found in salt crusts, or a reaction between the salt and the sodium bicarbonate in the lake.
Despite the extremely high salt content of the lake, it's safe to swim in.
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(#9) Spotted Lake
- Lake
Where It's Located: British Columbia, Canada
Why It's Unusual: While it holds a good deal of cultural importance, there is a scientific explanation behind the lake's distinctive circles. Each circle contains mineral deposits of calcium, sodium sulphates, and magnesium sulphate, which run into the lake from nearby hills. The circles' unique colors depend on each one's specific combination of minerals.
According to the indigineous people of the Okanagan Nation, Canada's Spotted Lake - known to the Okanagan Nation as Kliluk - is a sacred site, with each circle offering different medicinal benefits. The lake, which was once privately owned, has been in the hands of the Okanagan Nation since 2001.
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More than 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, there are many crystal clear bodies of water in the world, and some environmental influences have produced beautiful and colorful natural scenery. Because of the different colored plants on the river bed, a number of bodies of water around the world show different colors, and even each season will have different colors, just like God's palette.
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