The origin of most of the lakes in the Philippines is closely related to

volcanic A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...

and

tectonic Tectonics (; ) are the processes that control the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time. These include the processes of mountain building, the growth and behavior of the strong, old cores of continents ...

activity. A number of smaller lakes occupy the craters of

extinct volcano A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...

es. Some lake basins are developed by subsidence due to

or volcanic activity. Others owe their existence to obstruction of drainage courses by landslides, lava flows and by fragmental

volcanic ejecta Ejecta (from the Latin: "things thrown out", singular ejectum) are particles ejected from an area. In volcanology, in particular, the term refers to particles including pyroclastic materials (tephra) that came out of a volcanic explosion and magm ...

. Among the lakes which are known in the Philippines only three, namely, Laguna de Bay in Luzon,

Taal Lake Taal Lake ( tl, Lawa ng Taal, ), formerly known as Bombón Lake, is a freshwater caldera 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 e ...

in Luzon, and Lake Lanao in Mindanao, stand out prominently because of their size or economic importance.

List

The following is a partial alphabetical listing of permanent lakes (''excluding

flood plains A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...

'') in the Philippines.

Gallery

Largest and deepest lakes

File:LagunaCaldera04.jpg, Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines File:Lake Lanao zoom.jpg, Lake Lanao, second File:Taal View from Tagaytay 2010.JPG,

, third File:Lake Mainit Surigao del Norte sunset.JPG, Lake Mainit, fourth, and the second deepest File:Crater lake Pinatubo.jpg, alt=,

Lake Pinatubo Lake Pinatubo ( fil, Lawa ng Pinatubo) is the summit crater lake of Mount Pinatubo formed after its climactic eruption on June 15, 1991. The lake is located in Botolan, Zambales, near the boundaries of Pampanga and Tarlac provinces in the Philip ...

is one of the youngest lake in the Philippines.

References

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Lakes

List

Gallery

Largest and deepest lakes

See also

References