Zambales Mountains

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View of the crater of Pinatubo Source: ChrisTomnong

The Zambales Mountains are a mountain range on the western side of Luzon in the Philippines. Disconnect Luzon Central Plains from the South China Sea and stretch including the Manila Bay to the province of Bataan from.

The Zambales Mountains form the western front of the central part of the Philippine Cordilleras on the island of Luzon. The shape of the mountain range is very different. In the north, where the foothills in the Gulf of Lingayen involve limiting peninsula in the west, are long-range Verebnungen in the low-lying flat hills. In the latitude of Lingayen the real mountain country that reaches a height of 1000 meters very quickly begins. The central largest surveys reach the 2,037 meter high mountain Tapulao, known as the High Peak, its greatest height. Other mountains in this mountainous region are the Mabanban, 1035 meters, Mount Pinatubo, 1486 meters, the Natib, 1253 meters, and the Mariveles, with a height of 1388 meters, in the province of Bataan.

The southern part of the mountain range is forested denser compared to the north. By regionally widespread slash and burn you meet the once dominant rain forest in places only from an altitude of 1500 meters on. The Zambalesberge is often enough to the shore so that the flat coastal strip is very narrow.

The largest river in the Zambales Mountains is 205 km long Agno. Its source is near the Pinatubo; it flows on the eastern flank of the mountain and flows along the Lingayen Gulf, near the city of Dagupan City. The most famous mountain of the mountain range is the 1486 meter high Mount Pinatubo. He is an active volcano and broke in 1991 after 600 years of rest again.

A occurring in the Zambales Mountains endemic insect species is Sungaya inexpectata.

Geology

The mountain range forming granites, grano diorites, gabbros, peridotites and diabases. However, by the overlying sediments and volcanic mounds they rarely occur at the surface. They are found only on flanks deeply incised valleys. The bulk of the sediments in the north is formed by the Vigo - Miocene (named after Vigo River ). They are some one thousand meters thick, widespread and consist mainly of sandstone, limestone, shale and lime. Volcanic deposits, andesitic and basaltic material derived in large part from the Postmiozänzeit provide a characteristic element of the landscape of the southern mountains dar.

Mountains in Asia
Mountains in the Philippines
Geography ( Luzon )

Mount Tapulao Lingayen, Pangasinan Mount Mariveles Agno River Claystone Caraballo Mountains Kalatungan Mountain Range Kitanglad Mountain Range Pocdol Mountains Sierra Madre (Philippines)

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