You may not know it yet, but there are dinosaurs still alive today in Digne-les-Bains and in many other parts of the world. We see them almost every day and pay no attention to them. Who are they?
It took several hundred years for the mass of tuff-rock (link to internal page of the site) that forms the "body" of the Great Waterfall to develop. In order to live in this place, humans tapped the Saint-Benoît natural spring-water source (link to internal page of the site) and directed the flow of water to a fixed point: the limestone was then deposited, thus accumulating the tuff-rock. And every year, it is necessary to check the encroachment of the tuff-rock on the road!
UNESCO Géoparc de Haute-Provence
Musée Promenade
Parc Saint-Benoît BP 30 156
04990 DIGNE-LES-BAINS
France
L’UNESCO Géoparc de Haute-Provence est un service de Provence Alpes Agglomération,
administré au travers d’une Entente Intercommunale avec la Communauté de Communes du Sisteronais-Buëch
et financé par la région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur et le Conseil Départemental de Haute-Provence.
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