page_title: Los Tres Ojos
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Los Tres Ojos / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Los Tres Ojos national park in Santo Domingo Este, Dominican Republic. Español: El Parque Nacional Los Tres Ojos en Santo Domingo Este, República Dominicana. Italiano: Il parco nazionale Los Tres Ojos a Santo Domingo Este, in Repubblica Dominicana.
context_page_description: Los Tres Ojos is the name given to a 50-yard open-air limestone cave located in the Mirador del Este park, in the Santo Domingo Este municipality of the Dominican Republic. A series of three lakes, or ojos, the site is currently one of the most visited tourist attractions in the country.
context_section_description: The caves are fed by water from an underground river and surrounded by stalactites and stalagmites. The composition of the water varies. Early explorers thought that the first pond was made up of sulphurous water because of its blue hue. However, after testing it was discovered that Lago Azufre is actually composed of calcium minerals.
  The fourth and deepest lagoon is freshwater. It was stocked with fish back in the 1940s.
  The temperature of the lagoons varies between 20 °C to 29 °C, depending on the site, and their various depths give rise to different colored reflections, blue, green, and sometimes yellow. The depth of the shallowest lagoon, Lago de las Damas, is 8 feet. The deepest, Los Zaramagullones, is 25 feet.
  The fauna is also very varied and includes fish, bats and turtles. Surrounding vegetation is lush and abundant.
  To visit all four lagoons one needs to be able to climb stairs. All told there are 346 steps connecting the four.
  The lagoon furthest away, Lago Los Zaramagullones, can only be accessed by a small ferry raft pulled via rope across Lago La Nevera. Getting there is free, but you will have to pay a small fee (about $0.50 US) to get out. Los Zaramagullones is arguably the most tranquil and beautiful of the four lagoons. Many production companies have filmed footage here for there movies including: Tarzan, Combat Shock, Jurassic Park III, Oro y Polvo, to mention only a few.
  The caves are open from 9 am to 5 pm, and are illuminated at night by many colored lights.
caption: The "ferry" on La Nevera lake
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