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Taal Lake
Freshwater lake in the province of Batangas, Philippines / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Taal Lake (Tagalog: Lawa ng Taal, IPA: [taʔal]), formerly known as Bombón Lake,[2][3] is a fresh water caldera lake in the province of Batangas, on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The lake fills Taal Volcano, a large volcanic caldera formed by very large eruptions between 500,000 and 100,000 years ago.
Taal Lake | |
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Location | Batangas |
Coordinates | 13°59′05″N 121°00′57″E |
Type | Crater lake |
Primary inflows | Alulod River |
Primary outflows | Pansipit River |
Basin countries | Philippines |
Max. length | 25 km (16 mi) |
Max. width | 18 km (11 mi) |
Surface area | 234.2 km2 (90.4 sq mi) |
Average depth | 100 m (330 ft)[1] |
Max. depth | 172 m (564 ft)[1] |
Water volume | 23.42 km3 (5.62 cu mi) |
Shore length1 | 115 km (71 mi) |
Surface elevation | 5 m (16 ft) |
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Settlements | |
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1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. |
It is the country's third-largest lake, after Laguna de Bay and Lake Lanao. Volcano Island, the location of Taal Volcano's historical eruptions and responsible for the lake's sulfuric content, lies near the center of the lake.
There is a crater lake on Volcano Island. It was known as Yellow Lake[4] and contains its own small island, Vulcan Point. Vulcan Point is one of the few third-order islands in the world.