Mogote

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.

Gallery

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.

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.

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

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

Mogote (disambiguation)

Mogote may refer to: