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These hills are separated by well developed flat plains and contain numerous caves and springs. The Chocolate Hills are considered to be a remarkable example of conical karst topography. [11] [12] [13] The origin for the conical karst of the Chocolate Hills is described in popular terms on the bronze plaque at the viewing deck in Carmen, Bohol.
Near Carmen, the Chocolate Hills are more than 1,200 uniformly cone-shaped hills named for the grass growing on the hills that turns brown in the summer, making the landscape look like chocolate mounds. They are hills made of limestone left over from coral reefs during the Ice Age when the island was submerged. The Chocolate Hills are ...
The Chocolate Mountains form the northeast boundary of the Salton Trough extending as a narrow range some 80 miles (130 km) southeast from the Orocopia Mountains to the Colorado River valley. [ 2] The mountains are located about 30 miles (48 km) west of the Chocolate Mountains of Arizona, but the two ranges are not connected.
It's called the Chocolate Hills of Bohol because during the dry season, the grass turns brown and looks like mounds of chocolate. SEE ALSO: 10 of the world's most spectacular road trips known to man.
Nicknames of Atlanta. "Chicago of the South". "Convention City of Dixie Land". An 1859 industrial journal was among the first to note nicknames for Atlanta, Georgia: [1] An orator claimed for it the signification of "a city among the hills " while a writer has declared that it was the opposite of "rus in urbe" ("country in the city") and ...
Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the words origins beyond this are contentious. While it is popularly believed that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl (the language of the Aztecs), early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Opened. 2019. (2019) Closed. March 14, 2024. (2024-03-14) The resort which is subject to controversy was Captain's Peak Garden and Resort in the barangay of Libertad Norte in Sagbayan. [8] The property associated with the resort was first listed in Bohol's Register of Deeds on August 28, 1996 – a year prior to the Ramos declaration.
Chocolate in its most common forms: powder and bars. Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cocoa has been consumed in some form for at least 5,300 years starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in what ...