Mogotes:

            One of the unusual formations in Cuba is the Mogotes. The mountains have hills that are covered with foliage, flat tops and vertical sides that form a 90 degree angle with the ground. A huge limestone outcrop lies under the dense foliage which actually use to be underwater. During the Jurassic Age, the mogotes were the first formations to emerge from the Atlantic Ocean while Cuba was being formed. In a book by Don J. Easterbrook, he suggests that the exact reason for the development of the mogotes is not well understood. It has been suggested that "differential solutions of limestone, the collapse of caves, and stream erosion"  may have been some causes (Easterbrook, 1999). One other reason that has surfaced was the fact that 70 percent of the island is limestone and due to the location to the equator it has formed Tower Karsts, which is another name for the mogotes. It is said that the high amount of solution resulted in karstified limestone.  In the town of Vinales, the mogotes hide a "labyrinths of caves and tunnels carved out by underground rivers"(Cramer, 2000). One of those caves is the Cueva del Indio which allows for people to walk through the cave for 300 yards and then for the next 350 yards they can ride a boat on an underground river which concludes with a waterfall. Most of these caves though remained unexplored due to the fact that inside them live mosquito-eating bats.  Another interesting fact that is seen in Cuba is the artistic abilities of the people. The flat single sides of the mogotes allows for artist to paint large murals that sometimes displays the prehistory of the area.