THE SPECTACLE OF EROSION

Sometimes erosion takes on colossal dimensions. Little by little, with landslide after landslide, the cliffs reach up to 150 m in height.

The Pikote landslide is the most impressive of them all. It is 360 m wide and the fallen blocks cover an area equivalent to 7 football pitches, with the fallen sediment layer about 50 m thick. The absence of vegetation and current measurements indicate that this is an active landslide. In 1997, in the space of a few days, an expanse of grass the size of an Olympic-sized swimming pool fell into the chasm.