Location: Halong Bay is located in northeastern Vietnam,
is part of the western Gulf, including the sea area of Ha Long City, Cam Pha
Town and part of Van Don island district. Southwestern
borders Cat Ba Island, the west land with 120 km long coastline, the Gulf has a
total area of 1553 km2, including 1969 islands, of which 989 islands and 980
named islands not named. World
Heritage Area is recognized as an area 434 km2, including 775 islands, such as
a triangle with three vertices of Dau Go Island (west), Ba Ham Lake (south) and
Cong Tay Island (east) .
Halong
Bay is a unique heritage by these sites contain important traces in the process
of formation and development of earth's history, the cradle of the ancient
Vietnamese resident, who is art great
visual nature with the presence of thousands of islands much diversified, with
many interesting caves clustered into a vivid world has both mystery. Besides,
Ha Long Bay is a place to focus a high biodiversity with typical ecosystem with
thousands of plant and animal species are abundant and diverse. This
was also associated with cultural values - proud history of the nation.
Aesthetic
values, Halong Bay features a system of islands and beautiful caves. Island
in Ha Long Island there are two types of limestone and schist islands,
concentrated in two main areas of southeast Bai Tu Long Bay and southwestern
part of Ha Long Bay. This
is the oldest image of the terrain tectonic age from 250-280 million years, as
a result of the campaign raised, lowered several times from the mainland into
the sea basin. Carxto
process corrosion, weathering almost entirely to create a unique Halong world.
Hundreds
of islands, each island offers a different shape very lively: than my head,
Dragon Island, Hon La Vong, Hon sail, roof, Hon Lu Huong ... Implicit
in his heart of stone islands are beautiful caves associated with many
miraculous legends such as Thien Cung, Dau Go cave, Sung Sot, Trinh Nu cave,
Tam Cung ... It really
is the castle of the midst of earthly creation. From
time immemorial, Ha Long Bay has been great poet Nguyen Trai ethnic dubbed as
"the land between high heaven."
Geological
value of Ha Long Bay is assessed by two factors: a history of tectonic and
geological landforms. The
basic features of Ha Long Bay is the transgression 1000 years to expand the
Gulf, up the beach erosion by rote, the Gulf countries in more than salt and
coral growth. Corrosion
process of actively creating seawater shortly after adding the beauty of the
unique excitement Carxto stratigraphy. Ha
Long Bay as a result of geological evolutionary long run. Visitors
to Ha Long Bay is not only to the wonders of the world, but also to a precious
geological museum was preserved up to 300 million years outdoors. The
cave is vivid evidence of the process of sea intrusion through the geological
record. Geological
environment of Ha Long Bay is also a platform other values arises as
biodiversity, archeology and culture of other human values.
Halong
Bay focused high biodiversity ecosystems of tropical waters such as mangrove
ecosystem, the ecosystem of coral reefs, seagrass ecosystems, forest ecosystems
and tropical especially
farm ecosystem-specific parts.
So
far preliminary vegetation assessment in Ha Long Bay has about 347 species of
vascular plants and 95 232 they spend. Of
the 347 known species, 16 species are listed as Vietnam's red and about
endangered endangered. In
the rare plant species, 95 species of medicinal plants, 37 species of
ornamental plants, 13 species of fruit trees and 10 groups have different
usability.
The
islands in Ha Long Bay is the species diversity of molluscs, especially the
resident species in the gorge, and has 60 endemic species. Ha
Long Fisheries and aquaculture operators, including abalone, sea cucumber,
devotees, shrimp, fish, squid (squid, cuttlefish, squid size), octopus,
oysters, mussels and pearls breeding messages ...
Ha
Long Bay is a land carrying the glorious history, the heroic peoples of Vietnam
and the famous as Van Don - where the ancient trading port busy in the 12th
century, with Bai Tho Mountain history,
and not far away is the Bach Dang River - evidence of two illustrious naval
battle of generations of ancestors against invaders. Not
only that, Ha Long is one of the cradles of human beings with the glorious
Halong culture Late Neolithic period in the archaeological sites known as Dong
Mang, Chain Tho, Soi Nhu, Well shuttle ...
On
17/12/1994, during the 18th session of World Heritage Committee of UNESCO held
in Thailand, Ha Long Bay was officially recognized as a world natural heritage
with exceptional value in terms of aesthetic,
by the standards of international conventions on protection of natural and
cultural world. On
12/02/2000, at the 24th Conference in the city of Cairns, Queensland,
Australia, the World Heritage Committee has recognized Ha Long Bay World
Heritage Site is the 2nd standard geological value and geomorphology. Currently,
Quang Ninh province is promoting filed UNESCO Heritage Ha Long Bay is the 3rd
world, based on the archaeological value and biodiversity in the Gulf.