Deep in the Trinity forests about 13 miles from the coast lies one of T&T’s best-kept secrets—a warm salt water volcano or salt spring, possibly the only one of its kind in the world.
Salt Spring—the Rio Claro Salt Water Volcano—was recorded in a publication in 1959 by Swiss geologist Dr Hans Kugler, but it was only two years ago a team of 37 geologists went back to the site, defining it and making it known publicly.
Despite this, the volcano remains under-explored to many citizens. The rocks around the volcano are spongy beneath your feet. A coral-like formation known as “tufa” exists on the flanks of the volcano, which plunges around 250 feet downhill to meet the salt water river in the area, which is devoid of vegetation.
Researchers have been trying to ascertain why the water which flows from the volcano is salty, seeing that the neare
Deep in the heart of the Guayaguayare forest, more than 15 miles from the sea, a ‘spring’ flows salty water on the southern flank of the Lizard Springs Anticline. The Volcano is located in a southwesterly direction from a start point near the Salt Water Bridge on the Guyaguyare Road.
A release from the Mayaro Rio Claro Regional Corporation says that in 1959, Dr. Hans Kugler recorded this feature as a salt spring in his work Surface Geology Map of Trinidad. A mixture of water and a tar-like substance can reportedly be seen bubbling and flowing within the crater. The salinity of seawater is around 3.5 percent, and the water found within the crater is said to be at a maximum of 2.3 percent.
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