Rosario Islands
Coral-ringed archipelago of low cays whose shoreline scientists have tracked shrinking for over half a century.
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This guide to the Rosario Islands off Cartagena follows two sets of photographs, aerial shots taken since 1954 and satellite images taken decades later, that researchers used to track how this coral archipelago has quietly changed. It moves between Tesoro, Grande and Rosario, the low cays making up the national park declared here in 1977, and the more than fifty coral species that built the reef beneath your boat. A separate study of 2010 to 2021 tested whether the earlier photographs still held true. Look out at these low shapes while you listen.
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