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.
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^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.
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^BALGHIN, W. G. V.; COLEMAN, A. (5 March 1965). "Puerto Rico". Geography. 50 (3): 274–286. JSTOR 40567047.
Further reading
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.