Mount Isarog

The Isarog is a 1966 -meter-high stratovolcano, about 280 km southeast of Manila. It is located in the Philippines on the island of Luzon in the province of Camarines Sur in the Bicol region about 20 km northeast of the city of Naga. The mount Isarog National Park was established in 1938 and covers the entire mountain on an area of 99.71 km ².

Its base diameter is specified at 32.5 km, his rock is classified as augite or andesite. On its slopes there are geothermal springs which emerge at a temperature of 30-55 ° C, sometimes reaching temperatures above 80 ° C. The Isarog is described for this reason, as a potentially active volcano. However Written evidence of an eruption in the last 500 years do not exist.

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