Taal Lake

Taal Lake
Taal Lake
	Satellite image of the lake and Volcano Island within it
	Taal Lake Location within the Philippines
Location	Batangas
Coordinates	13°59′05″N 121°00′57″E / 13.98472°N 121.01583°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) International Lake Environment Committee
Max. depth	172 m (564 ft)
Water volume	23.42 km3 (5.62 cu mi)
Shore length1	115 km (71 mi)
Surface elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Islands	Bubuin; Dalig; Lagdauin; Lambauing; Napayon; Volcano Island;
Settlements	Agoncillo; Alitagtag; Balete; Cuenca; Laurel; Lipa; Mataasnakahoy; San Nicolas; Santa Teresita; Talisay; Tanauan;
	1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Taal Lake, formerly known as Bombón Lake,^[1]^[2] is a fresh water volcanic crater 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.

It is third largest lake in the Philippines, 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, known as Yellow Lake,^[3] and contains its own small island, Vulcan Point. Vulcan Point is an "Island in a lake, on an island in a lake, on an island" — one of the few recursive islands in the world.

Panorama of Taal Lake and Volcano

References

↑ Sawyer, Frederick H. (January 1, 1900). The Inhabitants of the Philippines. San Francisco: Cornell University Digital Collections. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-46-551185-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
↑ Crossley, Professor John Newsome (July 28, 2013). Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age. Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-40-948242-0.
↑ U.S. Army Corps of Engineer (1954). "Manila (Topographic map)". University of Texas in Austin Library. Retrieved on August 3, 2014.

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[1] Sawyer, Frederick H. (January 1, 1900). The Inhabitants of the Philippines. San Francisco: Cornell University Digital Collections. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-46-551185-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

[2] Crossley, Professor John Newsome (July 28, 2013). Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age. Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-40-948242-0.

[3] U.S. Army Corps of Engineer (1954). "Manila (Topographic map)". University of Texas in Austin Library. Retrieved on August 3, 2014.

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