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Mount Apo is a flat-topped, 2,954 m (9,692 ft) (above sea level) high stratovolcano with three peaks. It is the highest peak of the Philippines. The southwest peak has the highest elevation and is topped by a 200 m (656 ft) wide crater that contains a small lake.
The Apo–Talomo Range (also known as Mount Talomo) or Talomo Mountain Range in the provinces of Davao del Sur and Cotabato on the island of Mindanao contains the Philippines' highest peak: Mount Apo, at (9,692 ft (2,954 m)). [4] Mount Talomo (8,773 ft (2,674 m)) is one of the top 15 highest mountains in the Philippines. In terms of climbing ...
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 Apo: 2954: Apo–Talomo: Joaquin Rajal, Joseph Montano, Mateo Gisbert, and companions [26] [27] 7 Aug 1802: Monte Perdido: 3355: Pyrenees: Grégoire Taulat dit Rondo, Laurens and a shepherd [28] 13 Aug 1804 * Mount Katahdin: 1608: Appalachians: William Howe, Amos Patten, Joseph Treat, Samuel 6Call, William Rice, Richard Winslow, and ...
Mount Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines, is located at the city's southwestern tip. Mount Apo National Park (the mountain and its surrounding vicinity), was inaugurated by President Manuel L. Quezon (in Proclamation 59 of May 8, 1936) to protect the flora and fauna of the surrounding mountain range.
English: Mount Apo, also known locally as Apo Sandawa, is a large solfataric, dormant stratovolcano on the island of Mindanao, Philippines. With an elevation of 2,954 meters above sea level, it is the highest-mountain in the Philippine Archipelago and 24th-highest peak of an island on Earth.
It is the second highest mountain of the Philippines at 2,941 metres (9,649 ft) above sea level, second only to Mount Apo of Davao at 2,956 m (9,698 ft) and slightly higher than Mount Pulag of Luzon, the third highest at 2,928 m (9,606 ft). [1] The mountain is regarded by the Talaandig tribe of Lantapan as a sacred place.
The lake is a crater lake, a basin formed on an old volcanic cone that was later filled with water.It was erroneously reported as a circular rift lake, as this area is not a rift zone but a volcanic area evident by the presence of nearby volcanic peaks like Musuan Peak (7 kilometres or 4.3 miles to the E), Mount Kalatungan (20 kilometres or 12 miles to the NW), Mount Dagumbaan (10 kilometres ...