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Lençóis Maranhenses

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Original – During the rainy season, the valleys among the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil are filled with thousands of fresh water lagoons, prevented from draining due to the impermeable bedrock beneath. These can stretch up to 300 feet (91 m) in length and 10 feet (3.0 m) in depth, and together comprise as much as 41% of the total area of the 383,000 acre (155,000 ha) park.

Reason

I originally pulled this out of latest files feed when it was uploaded back in June. Honestly, it was such high quality with such vivid colors that I was pretty sure it was going to end up being a copyright violation, but it ended up just being a really excellent image uploaded by Julius Dadalti (this guy), and donated as part of Wiki Love Earth 2018. Having looked through quite a few books and stories trying to polish up the article for this nomination, it puts a lot of the images used by the sources to shame. Also just for context, even though these almost look like puddles you can step across with your rain boots, they're actually pretty dang big (goat for scale) and expansive enough that they're visible from the International Space Station.

Articles in which this image appears

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others

Creator

Julius Dadalti

• Support as nominator – GMG^talk 19:00, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
• Support - Nice! Wish we could get more such quality pics of more remote areas. Renata (talk) 19:06, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
• Support - Stunning image! --Janke | Talk 08:31, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:20, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
• Support - Chris857 (talk) 15:21, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
• Support great Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:36, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
• Support - The NMI User (talk) 06:39, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Promoted File:Lençóis Maranhenses 2018.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

• Added image to Places/Landscapes instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)