Lençóis Maranhenses — Rain Season Lagoon Field
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Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil at peak rain season — thousands of freshwater lagoons trapped between white sand dunes creating a blue and white mosaic that extends to the horizon, aerial view.
Description
Lençóis Maranhenses is a geographical paradox — a desert of white quartz dunes that floods seasonally to create one of the world’s most extraordinary hydrological landscapes: thousands of temporary freshwater lagoons trapped between dune ridges that cannot drain because the water table below rises to the surface. The aerial photograph of this system at peak lagoon season — March to September — reveals the scale of the phenomenon that ground-level images cannot convey. This photograph was made from a light aircraft at 600 metres altitude during the April peak, when the lagoon field extends from the Rio Preguiças to the eastern park boundary. The white dunes provide geometric structure between the blue water masses, and the contrast between the cerulean lagoons and white sand is nearly abstract in its two-dimensional graphic quality when viewed from above.
