Visiting Caño Cristales in dry seasons could be disappointing during the extreme hot or wet seasons. You will be left wondering what the all-fuss was all about.

But visiting it between June to November would leave you stunned.

The 62.1-mile-long river, Caño Cristales, is known as the "River of Five colors." The river is located in Colombia's Serranía de la Macarena national park, in the province of Meta.

Photo: Juergen Ritterbach/Alamy Stock Photo

The plants of the river put on a colorful show in the moderate months.

One can witness mother nature's one of the gloriest properties at the river in these months.

The colorful show is often called "the liquid rainbow." 

The bed of the river sports bright red, yellow, green, blue, and black for the few months that conditions are right. Although the colors can be viewed from as early as mid-May and sometimes into December, they are brightest during June and November.

The show is missing in the wet seasons because the sunlight can not reach the plants due to the fast-flowing water, and during the colds, there is not enough water to support the aquatic plants.

The colors are produced during the reproductive process of the aquatic plants in the river, which are called Macarenia Clavigera, a species of the river weed family Podostemaceae.

This phenomenon can be seen nowhere else than this particular place of the Latin American Country.

Photo Juergen Ritterbach/Alamy Stock Photo

The river was initially closed for tourists before the Pandemic because the number of tourists visiting the location was so high that it could become a threat to the river itself. The closure was just extended by the Pandemic. 

And it finally reopened after 18 months in June of this year.

The experts said that the closure had been beneficial for the river and its biodiversity.