TOPICAL PHILIPPINES
Volcanoes
MOUNT MARIVELES
Mount Mariveles is a POTENTIALLY ACTIVE stratovolcano, the last eruption date is unknown although one unconfirmed report dated an eruption approximately 4,000 years ago; other age determination of lava flows range from 3.5miilion to 190,000 years old.
Mount Mariveles is located at the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, on the west side of Manila Bay. It is a massive, dominantly andesitic, volcano and includes a 4-km-wide caldera that drains to the north. The highest peak has an elevation of 1,388m. Parasitic flank cones are located to the NNE (Mount Samat) and E (Mount Limay).
Marieveles is still thermally active with hot springs located within the complex.
World Refugee Year #817, 818, 7 Apr 1960
Sunset over Manila Bay
4th Cetenary of Appearance of the Statue of Our Lady of Guia, Ermita, Manila #1105, 1106 and detail, 8 July 1971
Legaspi discovered a gorup of local Filipinos worshipping a statue in what is now Ermita on the eastern shore of Manila Bay, Mount Marivelles and Mt Limay lie on the Bataan Peninsula acrsoo the bay