The Karst Landscape of the Yucatan – May 8, 2022
The town of Celestún in Yucatán, Mexico appears here in a photo taken using the International Space Station’s digital camera on October 30, 2021 and shared as Earth Observatory Image of the Day on May 8. Ría Celestún appears here in dark blue, and this landscape is a karst landscape, where the bedrock is made up of rock types that are easily dissolvable by water, such as limestone. Located at the bottom of this photo are circular features called “cenotes,” which are sinkholes created by the dissolving of limestone bedrock.
