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Laguna del Carbón

A pseduo-colour terrain map of Laguna del Carbón. Low elevations are shown in progressively darker teal colors, higher elevations in darker browns. The color scale pivots at 0 m a.s.l which is white. This shows that the lowest point is _below_ sea level. The title text reads: 'Laguna del Carbón: -105m, gran bajon de san julian, argentina'. n the bottom left is an inset map showing the outline of South America, with an arrow pointing to southern Argentina
Laguna del Carbón: The Lowest Point in South America. Made of day 12 of the 2023 #30DayMapChallenge - South America
projectionUTM Zone 19S
toolsPython: geopandas, matplotlib, xarray, pystac, rioxarray, xrspatial
dataElevation data from Copernicus Global DEM (ESA); coastlines, and country borders from Natural Earth
fontDejaVu Sans Mono
commentsTried to pick a colour map that would ~ish resembel what the satellite image looks like. Reasonably happy with the inset map, asymmetric colorbars are always a bit weird.
date12/11/2023