Mogote

Dome-like rounded mogotes in Viñales Valley, Cuba.

Mogotes are generally isolated steep-sided residual hills, which are composed of either limestone, marble, or dolomite and surrounded by nearly flat alluvial plains. These hills typically have a rounded, tower-like form.

Overview

This term is used for hills, isolated or linked, with very steep - almost vertical walls- surrounded by alluvial plains, in the tropics regardless of whether the carbonate strata in which they have formed is folded or not.^[1][2]

Gallery

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  Puerto Rico Mogotes rising out of pineapple fields in a plain of blanket sand near Coto Sur. The quarry in the left background is 1 kilometer east of Manati.

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  Two mogotes showing they typical rounded shape growing up in Viñales Valleyin Pinar del Río Province, western Cuba

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  View of Viñales Valley in Pinar del Río Province, Cuba

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  Eastern view of the mogotes near the town of Viñales in Pinar del Río Province, Cuba

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  Mogotes, Northern Matanzas Province, near the city of Cárdenas, Cuba

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  Mogotes in Northern Cuba, between Matanzas and Havana Provinces

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  Linked Mogote formations of the Bamburanao Sierra in Yaguajay, Sancti Spiritus Province, Central Cuba

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  Mogote wall rises out the flat ground in Bamburanao Sierra near Yaguajay, Sancti Spiritus Province, Cuba

References

1. Neuendorf, K. K. E., J. P. Mehl, Jr., and J. A. Jackson, 2005, Glossary of Geology, 5th ed. American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 779 p. ISBN 0-922152-76-4
2. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2002, A Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology with Special Reference to Environmental Karst Hydrology (2002 Edition). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington Office, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-02/003. 221 p.

• Day, M. J. (March 1978). "Morphology and distribution of residual limestone hills (mogotes) in the karst of northern Puerto Rico". Geological Society of America Bulletin 89 (3): 426–32. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1978)89<426:madorl>2.0.co;2.

External links

• (Spanish) Mogote on wordreference.com