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El Alto-La Paz
-16.504722°,-68.163333° - Google Timelapse
The El Alto-La Paz metropolitan area, in western Bolivia, has grown dramatically in recent decades. Much of its population boom is owed to El Alto, which has grown tenfold since the mid-1970s, from about 100,000 residents to nearly 1 million today. El Alto is located adjacent to, and above, La Paz in the Altiplano highlands — it is the highest major city in the world at an average elevation of 4,000 meters (13,123 ft).
Alcatraz Island
37.826667°,-122.422778° - Nearmap
Alcatraz is a small island 1.25 miles (2 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Originally developed in the mid-19th century with a lighthouse and military fortifications, Alcatraz was converted into a federal prison in 1934. Strong currents around the island and cold water temperatures made escape nearly impossible, earning Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary a reputation as one of the most notorious prisons in American history. The prison closed in 1963, and the island is now a major tourist attraction.
Port of Callao
-12.052222°,-77.139167° - Maxar
The Port of Callao is a maritime port on the central coast of Peru, serving as the de facto port for the city of Lima. It is one of the busiest ports in Latin American and the Caribbean, moving more than 2.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo in 2018. Just north of the port is the Rímac River, seen in this Overview depositing large amounts of sediment into the Pacific Ocean.
Littleton Corn Maze
39.552208°,-105.100049° - Nearmap
Nothing says Halloween like pumpkin patches and corn mazes! Here’s a corn maze at the Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms in Littleton, Colorado. Do you think you could navigate through this seven-acre (28,000-square-meter) maze?
Lençóis Maranhenses Timelapse
-2.533333°,-43.116667° - Planet / Google Timelapse
Visit our Instagram @dailyoverview to see a Timelapse of sand dunes shifting over time in a section of Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park. Sand is carried to the park from the interior of the country by the Parnaíba and Preguiças rivers, where it is then driven back inland by coastal winds that blow up to 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour. The tallest dunes in the park rise to heights of 40 meters (130 feet).
Besni District
37.532097°,37.943359° - Maxar
Farmland creates a vibrant pattern against the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in Besni District, southeastern Türkiye. This region contains human settlements that date back thousands of years and is not far from the Fertile Crescent, where agriculture first emerged. Crops grown here include pistachios, pomegranates, almonds, walnuts, olives, apples and mulberries.
Acapulco
16.863611°,-99.882500° - Maxar
Acapulco, a resort city on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, was struck overnight by Hurricane Otis as a Category 5 storm with 165-mph (265-kmh) winds. Otis caught many by surprise, rapidly intensifying by more than 110 mph (177 kmh) in just 24 hours. Acapulco, a city of more than 852,000, had all power and internet service knocked out, effectively cutting it from outside communication.
Taal Volcano
14.010000°,120.997500° - Maxar
Taal is an active stratovolcano located on the southwestern end of Luzon Island, Philippines. It has a crater lake at its center, and the entire 8.9-square-mile (23 sq. km) volcanic island lies within a larger caldera, also known as Taal Lake. Even its crater lake contains a small island, Vulcan Point, which is one of few "islands in a lake on an island in a lake on an island" in the world.
Dalma Island
24.516667°,52.316667° - Maxar
Dalma Island, part of the UAE, is located in the Persian Gulf approximately 26 miles (42 km) off the coast of Abu Dhabi. It has a population of about 10,000, most of whom are fishermen or farmers. With multiple freshwater wells, Dalma is able to support extensive vegetable fields and fruit orchards.
Limassol Salt Lake
34.612819°,32.964386° - Google Timelapse
Limassol Salt Lake is the largest inland body of water on the island of Cyprus, covering 4.11 square miles (10.65 sq km). Since its deepest point is only about three feet (one meter), it frequent dries and refills, causing its appearance to vary from the Overview perspective. It is considered one of the eastern Mediterranean region’s most important wetlands, providing a seasonal habitat for thousands of greater flamingos.
Munich Airport
48.353889°,11.786111° - Maxar
Munich Airport, also called Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport, is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria, Germany. In 2019, it was the second-busiest passenger airport in Germany and the ninth-busiest in Europe, handling 47.9 million travelers. The airport is located northeast of Munich near the town of Freising, surrounded by farm fields and the Isar River.
Sitangkai
4.661528°,119.391872° - Maxar
Sitangkai is a town in Tawi-Tawi Province, Philippines, with most of its infrastructure built atop stilts or piles of coral stones in the Celebes Sea. Although footbridges mostly connect one structure to another, boats are the primary mode of transportation, earning Sitangkai the nickname, “Venice of the Philippines.” It is the southernmost place in the Philippines, with a population of about 37,000.
Merowe Dam
18.668889°,32.050278° - NASA / Google Timelapse
The Merowe Dam - built along the Nile River in Sudan - is the largest hydroelectric project in Africa. River diversion began in 2004, with construction finishing in 2009. Upon completion, the dam doubled Sudan’s electricity supply. As the dam backed up and expanded the flow of the river into a reservoir, the surface area of the Nile increased roughly 270 square miles (699 square kilometers) and displaced 70,000 indigenous people who relied on the land for farming. Because of the warm climate in the region, combined with this increase in surface area, the reservoir is now experiencing evaporation losses of 396.3 billion gallons (1.5 billion cubic meters) of water every year, roughly 8 percent of the water allocated to Sudan from the 1959 Nile Waters Treaty.
Shasta Mountain
41.409196°,-122.194888° - Planet
Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. Rising 14,179 feet (4,322 m), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state. Surrounding the mountain is evidence of deforestation through clearcutting — a methodical practice of uniformly cutting down trees in a contained area. The process is controversial for its effect on the land’s topsoil, which is also removed with the trees, leaving patches of gray deforested areas.
Downtown Vancouver
49.284167°,-123.121111° - Nearmap
The commercial center of Vancouver, British Columbia — known as the “Downtown Peninsula” — extends like a thumb into the Strait of Georgia, which leads to the broader Pacific Ocean. This area contains most of the city’s remaining historic buildings and nearly all of its tallest skyscrapers and residential towers. Downtown Vancouver houses about 62,000 people, while the Greater Vancouver area has a population of 2.6 million, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Kalmat Khor
25.340297°,64.055558° - Maxar
A peninsula branches into Kalmat Khor, a lagoon on the southern coast of Pakistan. This region is covered by mudflats that are submerged at high tide — usually in June and July — and reemerge during low tide. The small green areas shown are pockets of mangrove forest, and even smaller red-orange patches are salt deposits.
Yerevan
40.185282°,44.515013° - Maxar
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia, with just over one million inhabitants. This Overview features the Kentron district, the city’s cultural and commercial center, planned in a radial-circular arrangement. Many of Yerevan’s landmarks are visible here, including Republic Square, the Armenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Blue Mosque, Cascade Complex, and more.
Majara Residence
27.071588°,56.427011° - Maxar
Majara Residence is a seaside resort on the Iranian island of Hormuz, located in the Persian Gulf. Constructed in 2019 and 2020, it consists of 200 colorful domes (some interconnected) that form 17 guest suites and public facilities like cafes, restaurants and souvenir shops. The domes are built of rammed earth and sand, and are painted to reflect the various natural colors of Hormuz’s landscape.
Derry Fall Foliage
42.893582°,-71.276123° - Nearmap
Colorful fall foliage appears in Derry, New Hampshire, USA. Around this time of year, with the arrival of colder temperatures, leaves begin to change their colors, creating a marvelous and fleeting view before winter. New Hampshire is a popular state for “leaf-peeping” tourists, with more than 4.3 million people visiting the state in autumn of 2021.
Stay Grounded
-12.455385°,130.838988° - Nearmap
“Stay Grounded” is a large-scale ground mural painted on an abandoned parking lot in Darwin City, Australia. The roughly 16,000-square-foot (1,500-sq-m) piece was painted by artist Kitt Bennett in stages, starting with a skeleton and adding layers of body systems until the final figure, seen here, emerged.
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