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Mount Arayat

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Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
Mount Arayat
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San Juan Bano, Arayat, Luzon, Philippines

Mount Arayat is an inactive basaltic volcano on Luzon Island, Philippines, rising to a height of 1,026 metres . The volcano has a breached crater on its northwest side with a smaller andesitic dome in the collapse amphitheater. There are no historical records of eruption in Arayat and the only dated rocks are 0.53 and 0.65 million-year-old basalts predating the collapse and formation of the lava dome. The mountain is located in a flat agricultural region at 15°12′N 120°45′E. The southern half of the mountain lies within the municipality of Arayat, Pampanga, while the north half and the mountain summit lies within Magalang. Ten miles to the west of Mount Arayat is Angeles City and the former Clark Air Base. Mount Pinatubo is located a further 26 km west. The Volcano is a popular Tourist destination for people visiting the central plains. About 10 km to the north west is the Angeles City flying club that offers pilots education and sightseeing flights to Mount Arayat with ultralight airplanes. The territory is called Woodland Air Park in Magalang. The mountain is considered a mystical one, the legendary home of Aung/Aring Sinukuan/Sinkuan/Suku or the Fairy known as diwata Mariang Sinukuan depending on which version of the story the readers or listeners prefer, but in ancient Kapampangan folklore as well as the research known to have been gathered by Kapampangan students of Henry Otley Beyer, it was and is the abode of Apung/Aring Sinukuan, rival of Namalyari of Mount Pinatubo, who is in varying versions, the son of Cargon-Cargon who was mortally wounded in a fight with a giant from the Zambales Mountain Range which is said to be the home of Apu Namalyari. The mountain is currently under an immense deforestation threat. Locals have cited that there is a man in the mountain, angry due to the deforestation that was happening. Others say that it was Aring Sinukuan.
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