{"id":28397,"date":"2025-09-25T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28397"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:10:27","slug":"varkala-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/varkala-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Varkala Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Varkala Cliff Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, UNESCO has placed the Varkala Cliff on its tentative list of World Heritage Sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Varkala Cliff<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a beautiful <\/span><b>natural formation located in Varkala,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a coastal town in Thiruvananthapuram <\/span><b>district of Kerala.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This cliff along Kerala\u2019s coastline exposes the <\/span><b>Warkalli Formation of the Mio-Pliocene age (13 lakh to 2.5 crore years ago)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, along with natural springs and <\/span><b>striking erosional landforms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, offering both scientific and touristic value.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is locally called <\/span><b>Sivagiri Thuruthu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>laterite and sedimentary layers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hold fossils and traces of ancient climates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Papanasam Beach,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located at the base of the cliff, is revered for its <\/span><b>natural springs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and believed to have therapeutic properties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a crucial aquifer and natural water harvesting system for coastal communities, hosted unique biodiversity in its microhabitat, and supports underwater reefs essential for local fishing communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>27th national geological monument<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the country and the second in Kerala after the <\/span><b>Angadipuram Laterite.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/environment\/unesco-recognition-for-keralas-varkala-cliff-sparks-celebration-and-unease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DTE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varkala Cliff is a beautiful natural formation located in Varkala, a coastal town in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. Read more about Varkala Cliff, Location, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2888],"class_list":{"0":"post-28397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-varkala-cliff","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}