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Mount Pinos (/ ˈ p aɪ n oʊ s /) (Samala: 'Iwɨhɨnmu) is a mountain located in the Los Padres National Forest on the boundary between Ventura and Kern counties in California. The summit, at 8,847 feet (2,697 m), is the highest point in Ventura County. [ 2 ]
The following is an incomplete list of mountains in the Philippines. Several of these are volcanoes , formed by subducting tectonic plates surrounding the archipelago . [ 1 ]
Many vegetation types are represented in the Los Padres, including chaparral, the common ground cover of most coastal ranges in California below about 5,000 feet (1,500 m), and coniferous forests, which can be found in abundance in the Ventana Wilderness as well as the region around Mount Pinos in northern Ventura County.
Rank Province Highest Point Highest elevation Island 1 Davao del Sur: Mount Apo: 2,954 m 9,692 ft Mindanao: Cotabato: 2 Bukidnon: Mount Dulang-dulang: 2,938 m
Mount Pinatubo [4] is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales , Tarlac and Pampanga provinces, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] most people were unaware of its eruptive history before the pre-eruption volcanic activity in early 1991.
Mount Pinos is 21.5 miles by road west of Frazier Mountain. Alamo Mountain and the Sespe Condor Sanctuary are to its south. [6] [7] The summit of the mountain is a Forest Service lookout area with radio tower facilities as well as an abandoned fire lookout tower.
Republic Act No. 9522, "An Act to Define the Baselines of the Territorial Sea of the Philippines", [66] describes an irregular polygon which fits within a box with its center at 121°44'47.45"E 12°46'6.1252"N, a point also roughly in the center of the Tablas Strait. The CIA Factbook locates the Philippines at 13°N 122°E. [60]
Mount Pinukis is an inactive volcano in Brgy. Lison Valley, Pagadian City, Philippines.It is the highest peak of Zamboanga del Sur and the entire Zamboanga Peninsula.. It covers more than 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres), has up to 2015 retained a relatively intact forest cover and is therefore included in the Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs).