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Cenote distribution in the Yucatán Peninsula
Cenote distribution in the Yucatán Peninsula is the spatial pattern of sinkholes: a Ring of Cenotes in the northwest, a dense Caribbean coastal band, and a sparse interior.
Cenote formation and hydrogeology
Cenote formation and hydrogeology is the study of how Yucatán cenotes form by limestone dissolution and roof collapse, in a karst aquifer stratified into fresh water over intruding seawater.
Central American Dry Corridor
The Central American Dry Corridor, or Corredor Seco Centroamericano, is a tropical dry forest belt along the Pacific coast where recurrent droughts damage subsistence farming.
Central Anatolia
Central Anatolia: semi-arid endorheic plateau region of central Turkey (FEOW ecoregion 431), covering the Lake Tuz and Konya closed basins, with 43 endemic freshwater fish species, 30 of them threatened, and Turkey's lowest rainfall.
Central Andean Arc at 25.1°S
Central Andean Arc at 25.1°S (GVP Volcano Number 355161) is an unnamed basaltic andesite pyroclastic cone in Argentina, 4,652 m high at 25.078°S, 68.266°W, with possibly Holocene lava flows and no confirmed eruptions.
Central Brahui Range
Central Brahui Range: mountain range in central Balochistan, Pakistan, about 360 km long, limestone ridges with peaks Zarghun and Khalifat, Bolan Pass, homeland of the Brahui people.
Central Highlands
Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên), Vietnam's interior plateau of about 54,000 km² across five provinces, produces over 90% of the country's coffee and is home to 20 ethnic minorities.
Central Lowlands
Central Lowlands, largest physiographic province of the continuous United States (941,500 km2), a glaciated interior plain between the Appalachians and Great Plains, extending into Canada, with rich agricultural soils and subdivisions including the Great Lakes, Till Plains, and Driftless Area.
Central Makran Range
Central Makran Range: east-west mountain range in Pakistani Baluchistan's Makran region, highest of the Makran ranges at 7,500 ft (2,286 m), between the coastal range and Siyahan range, part of the Makran accretionary prism.
Central Pangean Mountains
Central Pangean Mountains: equatorial Late Paleozoic mountain chain, 1,000 km wide and 5,000–7,000 km long, formed by the Gondwana–Laurussia collision (~320 Ma) during Pangaea's assembly; remnants include the Appalachians, Variscan uplands, and Atlas belts.
Central Russian Upland
Central Russian Upland (Serednia vysochyna): a ~480,000 km² erosional upland in the East European Plain, watershed of the Volga, Don, and Dnieper, 220–260 m high, chernozem forest-steppe and steppe terrain.
Central Siberian Plateau
Central Siberian Plateau, vast basaltic tableland between the Yenisey and Lena rivers in Asian Russia on the Siberian Craton; about 1.5 million km2 at 500–700 m, subdivided into Putorana, Anabar, Syverma, Tunguska, and Vilyuy plateaus, under permafrost and taiga.
Central Valley (California)
Central Valley (California): the large sediment-filled valley between the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada, split into Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys; about 52,000 km², a top agricultural region with major groundwater subsidence.
Centre Island
Centre Island is an island in Square Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, discovered and named by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1934–37.
Cephalonia (Κεφαλονιά)
Cephalonia (Κεφαλονιά, Kefalonia) is the largest Ionian Island, Greece, with capital Argostoli. Known for Mount Ainos, Robola wine, Melissani cave, and the destructive M7.2 earthquake of 12 August 1953 that destroyed over 27,659 buildings and lifted the island up to 70 cm.
Cerro Altar
Cerro Altar, or El Altar, Capac Urcu: two Andean mountains of the same name, a 5,180 m rock pyramid near Santiago, Chile, and a 5,319 m extinct collapsed Ecuadorian volcano in Sangay National Park.
Cerro Arenales
Cerro Arenales, a 3,437 m stratovolcano on Chile's Northern Patagonian Ice Field, first climbed in 1958 by a Chilean-Japanese expedition; distinct from a 3,400 m trekking peak of the same name near Vallecitos, Mendoza, Argentina.
Cerro Aucanquilcha
Cerro Aucanquilcha (Volcán Aucanquilcha) is a 6,176 m dacite stratovolcano in northern Chile's Antofagasta Region, youngest center of the 11-million-year Aucanquilcha Volcanic Cluster, fumarolic but Pleistocene-erupting, and site of the world's highest sulfur mine (1913–1990s).
Cerro Balmaceda
Cerro Balmaceda (Monte Balmaceda), a glaciated Patagonian mountain in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, Chile, at the head of fiordo Última Esperanza near Puerto Natales; first climbed 1957, with only four recorded ascents through 2005.
Cerro Calima
Cerro Calima names two elevations in Valle del Cauca, Colombia: a 3,821 m peak (Peakbagger: 3,840 m, 2,242 m prominence) and a 1,901 m hill near Riofrío, in the Calima River region.
Cerro Champaqui
Cerro Champaqui, also written Champaquí, is the highest mountain in Córdoba Province, Argentina, at 2,790 m in the Sierras Grandes, with a summit lagoon and a classic three-day trek from Villa Alpina.
Cerro Chirripó
Cerro Chirripó, located in the Cordillera de Talamanca, is the highest point in Costa Rica and the fourth highest in Central America. The peak is situated within Chirripó National Park.
Cerro de la Majadita
Cerro de la Majadita (Nevado Olivares Central), a roughly 6,280 m Andean peak in San Juan Province, Argentina; highest of the Cordillera de Olivares, first climbed 30 December 1965 by Club Andino Mercedario members.
Cerro del Toro
Cerro del Toro (Cerro El Toro) is a 6,168 m Andean ultra-prominence peak on the Argentina-Chile border in San Juan/Atacama, first climbed in 1964, site of an Inca capacocha mummy; distinct from hills of the same name in Uruguay, Spain, and elsewhere.
Cerro El Cono
Cerro El Cono (Montaña Cónica), a pyramid-shaped hill in Peru's Sierra del Divisor, Ucayali region, rises about 400 m from Amazon rainforest, is likely a volcanic remnant, and lies in Sierra del Divisor National Park (2015).
Cerro El Jabali
Cerro El Jabali (Cerro el Jabalí) is the name of several Mexican mountains and hills, notably a 1,474 m peak in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, and a scoria cone near Parícutin that erupted about 3,830 years ago.
Cerro el Libertador - Nevado de Cachi
Cerro El Libertador (Nevado de Cachi, Sierra de Cachi) is the 6,380 m highest summit of a nine-peak chain in Salta, Argentina, first climbed in February 1950 by Pellicelli, Hoygaard, and Di Pasquo.
Cerro el Manchao
Cerro El Manchao, also Cerro Manchado, is the highest peak of the Sierra de Ambato in Catamarca, Argentina, about 4,500-4,575 m, with relict rock glaciers and a namesake 39,574-ha municipal reserve.
Cerro El Pital
Cerro El Pital, also called El Pital, is a 2,730 m mountain on the El Salvador–Honduras border in Chalatenango and Ocotepeque, the highest point of El Salvador, with cloud forest, a −6.1 °C national record low, and protected-area status on both sides.
Cerro Grande
Cerro Grande, Spanish for "big hill" or "great mountain", is a shared toponym for many mountains in Mexico, New Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Venezuela, including Bandelier's 10,199 ft high point and the site of the 2000 Cerro Grande Fire.