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.[2][3]
The word mogote comes from the
Basque word 'mokoti' meaning "sharp-pointed" ('moko' meaning "mountain peak").[5] In
Puerto Rico, several mogotes along a ridge are called pepinos.[6]
Gallery
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.
^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.
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