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Mount Arayat is an isolated potentially active stratovolcano in the Central Luzon plains. Located within vast agricultural lands of Pampanga , it rises prominently to a height of 1,033 metres (3,389 ft) above sea level.
Mount Ararat forms a near-quadripoint between Turkey, Iran, Armenia, and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan.Its summit is located some 16 km (10 mi) west of both the Iranian border and the border of Nakhchivan, and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Armenian border.
Arayat is bordered with Candaba, Mexico, Magalang, Santa Ana and Cabiao in Nueva Ecija. A large portion of Mount Arayat is located within this municipality. Arayat is 22 kilometres (14 mi) from San Fernando and 88 kilometres (55 mi) from Manila.
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
Apúng Sinukuan is the Kapampangan sun god of war and death who lived on Mount Arayat.During the colonial period, the Spanish rebranded him into Maria Sinukuan, the diwata or mountain goddess associated with Mount Arayat in Pampanga, Philippines, and later became a prominent example of the mountain goddess motif in Philippine mythology; other prominent examples being Maria Makiling of Los ...
Name: mountains are sorted according to only names (without the "Mount" prefix) for easier reference in name and spelling variants. Unnamed peaks are italicized . (note: to minimize clutter, citations for names are limited only to mountains with variant names , spellings, and/or those that currently do not have elevation data)
Mount Arayat stands in the middle of the basin. Southeast of Mount Arayat and the Pampanga River is the Candaba Swamp, covering an area of some 250 square kilometres (97 sq mi) absorbing most of the flood flows from the western slopes of a portion of the Sierra Madre and the overflowing of the Pampanga River via the Cabiao Floodway. This area ...
Mount Aragats (Armenian: Արագած, pronounced [ɑɾɑˈɡɑt͡s]) is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at 4,090 m (13,420 ft) above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia.