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mogote Physical Geogr.|məˈgəʊtiː|
[Sp. mogote hillock, heap, haystack.]
One of the tall, steep-sided hills, approximately circular in cross-section, that occur in karstic regions in Cuba and elsewhere.
1928Geogr. Rev. XVIII. 67 The Guaniguanico Mountains..rise from a smoothly undulating plain in the form of huge blocks and mesas, known as mogotes, to a maximum height of about a thousand or twelve hundred feet above the supporting floor. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xiii. 335 The pepino hills of Puerto Rico are much smaller than the mogotes of Cuba and hence more commonly rise to peaks rather than have flat summits. 1972J. Roglić in Herak & Stringfield Karst i. 11 The karst..is characterized by isolated steep hills (‘mogotes’ in Cuba). |