{"id":89379,"date":"2019-12-31T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2019-12-31T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T09:56:02","slug":"belum-caves-festival-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/belum-caves-festival-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Belum Caves Festival postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Belum Caves festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><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><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Belum Caves:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Belum Caves are also known as Belum Guhalu.They are located in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh.<\/li><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><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><li>These caves are renowned for their speleothem structures.The caves also have long passages, spacious chambers, freshwater galleries and siphons.<\/li><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><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About speleothem structures&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Speleothems are commonly known as cave formations.They are secondary mineral deposits formed in a cave.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Speleothems are typically formed in the form of stalactites, stalagmites, limestone or dolomite solutional caves.<\/li><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><\/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\/belum-caves-festival-postponed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Belum Caves Festival postponed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6824],"class_list":["post-89379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-belum-caves-festival","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704732338},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89379","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=89379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}