The Geotourism Potential Investigations in Kashmar Area, Khorasan-e-Razavi Province, NE Iran

The remains of the natural and human activities in some parts of the earth register as geopark. actually, geopark is one or moregeological phenomenon which is important from ecology, history, culture and archeological view. the aim of the geotourismdescription in an area and creating a geopark is trying to keep the earth’s inheritance and locality the economic of the area. iran withan old history, diversity of the environment and a lot of geological phenomenon has a great potential in creating geoparks. from thispoint of view, we can divide it into the five geotourism areas which are as follows: north, south, east, west and central part of iran.the kashmar township is an area which is located in the south part of the khorasan-e-razavi province in the northeast of iran. thisarea because of the nearness into the desert, is hot and dry. the area is rich of mines, hot-water springs and geological landscapes. inthis research, we tried to introduce some examples of the geotourism features in the study area such as faults, mines, hot-watersprings, bejestan playa, asyab-e-khooshab valley, kavir-e-lut salt desert, bijvard entrance, sar-e-borj waterfall, sir and ahoo bamcaves and natural glacier.