Lake Apo is a

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in Barangay Guinoyoran in the city of

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in the

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. It is located in a hilly area about in elevation, about WSW of the city ''

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'' (town center). Lake Apo was awarded the cleanest inland body of water in

Northern Mindanao Northern Mindanao ( tl, Hilagang Mindanao; ceb, Amihanang Mindanao; Maranao: ''Pangotaraan Mindanao'') is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region X. It comprises five provinces: Bukidnon, Camiguin, Misamis Occidental, ...

Region (Region X) in the late 1990s. The green body of water has an estimated area of with maximum depths reaching up to .

Etymology

The name of the lake come from the

bisaya Visayans ( Visayan: ''mga Bisaya''; ) or Visayan people are a Philippine ethnolinguistic group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, the southernmost islands of Luzon and a significant portion of Mindanao. When taken as a single ethnic group, ...

term ''apo'', meaning elder or grandparent. According to legend, there was a man living in the mountains who assaulted his granddaughter and was punished by the mountain deities for his disrespectful act by flooding the area forming the Lake Apo.

Geology

The lake is a

, a basin formed on an old volcanic cone that was later filled with water. It was erroneously reported as a circular

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, as this area is not a

rift zone A rift zone is a feature of some volcanoes, especially shield volcanoes, in which a set of linear cracks (or rifts) develops in a volcanic edifice, typically forming into two or three well-defined regions along the flanks of the vent. Believed t ...

but a volcanic area evident by the presence of nearby volcanic peaks like

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( to the E),

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( to the NW), Mount Dagumbaan ( to the SW), Mount Kidongin ( to the SW), and the

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east of

Pangantucan, Bukidnon Pangantucan, officially the Municipality of Pangantucan ( ceb, Lungsod sa Pangantucan; tl, Bayan ng Pangantucan), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bukidnon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 56,580 p ...

( to the west). Another small volcanic cone is located just southwest of Lake Apo.

Incidents

* March 29, 2015 – 2 teens were drowned after trying to cross the lake using a small bamboo raft; the said bodies were recovered on April 1.

References

Apo Apo Landforms of Bukidnon Tourist attractions in Bukidnon Valencia, Bukidnon {{NMindanao-geo-stub

Etymology

Geology

Incidents

See also

References