mogote
{{short description|Steep-sided residual hill of limestone, marble, or dolomite on a flat plain}}
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A mogote ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|g|əʊ|t|i}}){{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mogote|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043812/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mogote|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 1, 2017|title=mogote - Definition of mogote in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries - English}} is a generally isolated, steep-sided residual hill in the tropics composed of either limestone, marble, or dolomite. Mogotes are surrounded by nearly flat alluvial plains. The 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 are folded or not.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}}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.
Mogotes are common in tropical and subtropical karst areas around the world, specifically in southern China, the Southeast Asian countries of Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam; as well as the Caribbean, especially in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic is another karst area that contains mogotes.{{cite journal | title=Effects of land use history on hurricane damage and recovery in a neotropical forest | first1=M. | last1=Uriarte | first2=L.W. | last2=Rivera | first3=J.K. | last3=Zimmerman | first4=T.M. | last4=Aide | first5=A.G. |last5=Power | first6=A.S. | last6=Flecker | journal=Plant Ecology | year=2004 | volume=174 | issue=1 | pages=49–58 | doi=10.1023/B:VEGE.0000046058.00019.d9| bibcode=2004PlEco.174...49U | s2cid=14918767 }}
The word mogote comes from the Basque word mokoti 'sharp-pointed' (from moko 'mountain peak').{{Cite web|last1=ASALE|first1=RAE-|last2=RAE|title=mogote {{!}} Diccionario de la lengua española|url=https://dle.rae.es/mogote|access-date=2021-09-19|website=«Diccionario de la lengua española» - Edición del Tricentenario|language=es}} In Puerto Rico, several mogotes along a ridge are called pepinos.{{cite journal|last1=BALGHIN|first1=W. G. V.|last2=COLEMAN|first2=A.|date=5 March 1965|title=Puerto Rico|journal=Geography|volume=50|issue=3|pages=274–286|jstor=40567047}}
Gallery
USGS hostorical photo mogotes in Puerto Rico.jpg|Mogotes in Puerto Rico 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.
Vinalesvalley2.jpg|Two mogotes showing their typical rounded shape in Viñales Valley in Pinar del Río Province, western Cuba
Mogotes, Northern Matanzas Province in Cuba.jpg|Mogotes, Northern Matanzas Province, near the city of Cárdenas, Cuba
Mogotes in Northern Cuba, between Matanzas and Havana Provinces..JPG|Mogotes in Northern Cuba, between Matanzas and Havana Provinces
Mogotes 1.jpg|View of mogotes along the Northern karst zone of Puerto Rico.
Carreteritas de mi barrio - Hatillo, Puerto Rico - panoramio.jpg|Mogotes in Sector Hess in Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
20090503 6305 Guilin.jpg|Fengcongs and fenglins in Guilin, Guangxi, southeastern China, part of the South China Karst region.
Chocolate Hills Bohol.JPG|Aerial view of the Chocolate Hills, Bohol, Philippines, exhibiting both mogotes and cockpit karst characteristics.
Ipoh Town (6064053404).jpg|A mogote in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
Krabi Panorama.JPG|Mogotes, Krabi Province, southern Thailand.
Ha Long Bay 24.jpg|Islets of mogotes in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal
| last = Day
| first = M.J.
| date = March 1978
| title = Morphology and distribution of residual limestone hills (mogotes) in the karst of northern Puerto Rico
| journal = Geological Society of America Bulletin
| volume = 89
| issue = 3
| pages = 426–32
| url = http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/89/3/426
| doi=10.1130/0016-7606(1978)89<426:madorl>2.0.co;2| bibcode = 1978GSAB...89..426D
| url-access= subscription
}}