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Straits of the Philippines (1 C, 24 P) This page was last edited on 16 July 2024, at 09:05 (UTC). Text is ... Category: Bodies of water of the Philippines.
Metro Manila, Philippines, is located in the hydraulically complex Pasig River—Marikina River—Laguna de Bay watershed, which includes more than thirty tributaries within the urban area. [1] The following list is sorted by name, with a brief description of each. Bold indicates the body of water is a major channel.
18 Major River Basins in the Philippines. Rivers in the Philippines are grouped into 18 major river basins. Of these, the Cagayan, the country's longest river, [1] has the largest drainage basin, followed by the Mindanao, the Agusan, and the Pampanga. [2]
Several lakes in the Philippines, like Lake Danao in Leyte (pictured), are volcanic in origin. The origin of many lakes in the Philippines is closely related to volcanic and tectonic activity. A number of smaller lakes occupy the craters of extinct volcanoes. Some lake basins are developed by subsidence due to tectonic or volcanic activity.
Lake Bato is a freshwater lake and the 7th largest in the Philippines. It is located in the town of Bato, approximately 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) southwest of Iriga City, Camarines Sur Province, southeastern Luzon, Philippines. It has extensive marshes and swamp forests.
Laguna de Bay is a large shallow freshwater body in the heart of Luzon Island with an aggregate area of about 911 km 2 (352 sq mi) and a shoreline of 220 km (140 mi). [8] It is considered to be the third largest inland body of water in Southeast Asia after Tonle Sap in Cambodia and Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia.
Location of the Philippine Sea. The Philippine Sea has the Philippines and Taiwan to the west, Japan to the north, the Marianas to the east and Palau to the south. Adjacent seas include the Celebes Sea which is separated by Mindanao and smaller islands to the south, the South China Sea which is separated by Philippines, and the East China Sea which is separated by the Ryukyu Islands.
Cañacao Bay is the body of water formed by the C-shaped upper peninsula. The thumb area was the historic old Port City of Cavite, the sister city and main seaport of the City of Manila . Because of deeper waters than the Port of Manila that was then located along the banks of the Pasig River , the Port of Cavite became the staging and ...