Mount Jamanota

Landscape on the Jamanota

Location of Jamanota to Aruba

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Jamanota (also Ceru Jamanota ) means the highest elevation on the Kingdom of the Netherlands belonging Caribbean island of Aruba. The summit of the mountain is at an altitude of 188 meters above the sea level.

Geology

Geologically, the mountain is one as the entire island to the South American mainland. In principle, it is thus the tip of a located below the ocean Küstenhügelzugs which extends from Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea. The Jamanota is one of the surveys of hard, partly volcanic rock in the middle of the island, while the rest of the island consists largely of flachwelligem limestone hills.

Economic Importance

From the 1840s up to the 1910s the Jamanota was one of the two centers of the " gold rush " in Aruba. The gold has not been mined to the surface, but degraded in a mine. Around 1885 this mine was already left, but at the beginning of the 20th century gold mining was resumed. The ore was brought to the Goldschmelzerei few kilometers south west in Balashi, which was from 1899 to about 1916 in operation. By 1908 a total of 700 kilograms of gold were found in the region.

Flora and Fauna

Cactus, thorn bushes, agaves, aloes and rocks dominate the image on all Aruba. There are 48 species of native trees, eleven of which, however, already are very rare; by some, there are only five copies. Deforestation, climate change and goats are responsible. Many goats roam freely on the slopes of Jamanota, as well as donkeys; both species were introduced by Spanish and Dutch colonists. A reforestation program is underway for some time. The mountain is located in the Nationaal Park Arikok (National Park), which was declared in the early 1980s to a "field of national importance ". Consistently Iguanas are here to be found; tropical bird species are also indigenous, including the Aruban parakeet Aratinga pertinax arubensis. South of the mountain you will find a population of the endangered Aruban rattlesnake, the Cascabel (Researcher: Crotalus durissus unicolor).

Miscellaneous

On the top of Jamanota is a radio antenna.