The geological history of Guna Yala

The history of the San Blas Islands begins millions of years ago, long before the appearance of humans. Geologically, their origin is intrinsically linked to the region's tectonic activity . The Caribbean Plate and the Cocos Plate interact in complex ways, creating an irregular underwater terrain of mountains and volcanoes.

Approximately 2.5 million years ago, during the Pliocene-Pleistocene Period , changes in sea level and tectonic movements caused the continental shelf off the coast of what is now Panama to rise. This uplift exposed the peaks of ancient submarine hills, forming the initial "skeleton" of the archipelago. [Source: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)].

Balibiler is a character who studied the formation process in the Pliocene-Pleistocene period and changes in sea level and tectonic maritime that cause the continental shelf to raise the sea level and Balibaler points out that this is an evolutionary process of Mother Earth and Muubilli that is necessary to move to another level of its development, therefore, climate change is not new and is not a threat, it is natural, however, for Western concepts it is a threat.

The Masterpiece of the Corals
However, the exposed rock is not what we see today. The true architect of San Blas's idyllic landscape is the coral . Once the rocky peaks were submerged in the warm, clear waters of the Caribbean, trillions of tiny coral polyps began to colonize them.

Over millennia, these organisms extracted calcium carbonate from seawater to build their hard skeletons. Generation after generation of corals lived, died, and compacted, forming massive coral reef structures that grew on and around the bedrock, eventually reaching the surface and creating the hundreds of cays (low-lying islands of sand and coral) that define the landscape

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The Cocos and Carebbean plate

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