{"id":76233,"date":"2021-01-11T13:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T08:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=76233"},"modified":"2021-01-13T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T05:43:02","slug":"aboutbelum-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aboutbelum-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"About Belum Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Belum Caves Festival has been postponed in Andhra Pradesh after the dates clashed with Governor\u2019s visit to the district.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Belum Caves festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Belum Caves festival was named as Kandanavolu Sambaralu.It was being organised to popularize the Belum caves in Kurnool district,Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Belum Caves:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belum Caves are also known as Belum Guhalu.They are located in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>They are the second-longest cave in the Indian subcontinent open to the public.The first longest is the Krem Liat Prah caves in Meghalaya.<\/li>\n<li>This cave system was formed over the course of tens of thousands of years by the constant flow of underground water from the now disappeared river Chitravathi.<\/li>\n<li>These caves are renowned for their speleothem structures.The caves also have long passages, spacious chambers, freshwater galleries and siphons.<\/li>\n<li>Belum caves are also indications that Jains and Buddhists monks were occupying these caves centuries ago.The presence of 4500 years old vessels from the pre-Buddhism era ensures the same.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About speleothem structures\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speleothems are commonly known as cave formations.They are secondary mineral deposits formed in a cave.<\/li>\n<li>Speleothems are typically formed in the form of stalactites, stalagmites, limestone or dolomite solutional caves.<\/li>\n<li>A secondary mineral is one which is derived by a physicochemical reaction from a primary mineral in bedrock or detritus and\/or deposited because of a unique set of conditions in a cave such as environment conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Belum Caves Festival has been postponed in Andhra Pradesh after the dates clashed with Governor\u2019s visit to the district. Facts: About Belum Caves festival: The Belum Caves festival was named as Kandanavolu Sambaralu.It was being organised to popularize the Belum caves in Kurnool district,Andhra Pradesh. About Belum Caves: Belum Caves are also known as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aboutbelum-caves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Belum Caves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":76512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/About-Belum-Caves.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":10,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}