Manila Bay

Satellite Photo

Sunset in Bay City, Pasay

The Manila Bay is a natural harbor on the Philippine main island of Luzon.

The bay has a total area of ​​1994 km ² and has a coast line of 190 km length. It provides natural protection for the Port of Manila and some other anchorages. The width of the bay is at the entrance to the open sea 19km and extends to the interior back up to 48 km from. Mariveles is an anchorage at the northern entrance of the bay, and in Sangley Point was located until 1971, the Cavite Naval Base in the U.S. Navy. In the north and south are more small ports.

On both sides of the bay are volcanic hills, which are overgrown by tropical landscaping. 40 km north of the harbor is the province of Bataan and to the south the province of Cavite. At the entrance of the bay there are several islands. The largest is Corregidor. She shares the entrance of the bay in a 10.5 km wide southern and a 3.2 km wide northern channel. In the relatively narrow passage to the island of Corregidor occurred in the past repeatedly to Schiffskollissionen with sometimes tragic consequences, such as the sinking of the ferry Cebu City in December 1994 and San Nicholas in May 2003. To mitigate this potential risk, it is provided here in the future to establish a traffic separation scheme.

The Manila Bay is considered one of the best natural harbors in Southeast Asia. She was the staging area for the Battle of Manila Bay. This battle was the beginning and the first pioneering military action in the Spanish -American War in 1898.

In the area of ​​Metro Manila, the coastline of the bay is densely populated. Some areas were recovered from the sea and artificially attached, such as the area in Pasay City, on which the Mall of Asia is located among others. South-east of the bay is the freshwater lake Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines. It flows through the Pasig River into Manila Bay.

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