Mount Malepunyo
| Mt Malarayat | |
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| Mount Malepunyo | |
Malepunyo Range as seen from Tagaytay
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,077 m (3,533 ft) |
| Parent peak | bagwis pt |
| Listing | Inactive volcano |
| Coordinates | 13°57′48″N 121°14′23″E / 13.96326°N 121.23971°ECoordinates: 13°57′48″N 121°14′23″E / 13.96326°N 121.23971°E |
| Geography | |
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 Mt Malarayat
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| Location | Luzon |
| Country | Philippines |
| Region | CALABARZON |
| Province | Batangas |
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| Parent range | 22km |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Pliocene |
| Mountain type | Stratovolcano |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Macolod Corridor |
| Last eruption | Unknown |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | from Lipa City, Batangas |
Malepunyo Range (also known as Malipunyo Range) is an extinct volcano located on Luzon Island in the Philippines. The mountain range is located between the provinces of Batangas, Laguna and Quezon. It is popular among mountaineers, and has three interconnected destinations: Mt. Malepunyo, the highest; Bagwis Peak (also known as Mt. Susong-Cambing); and Mount Dalaga (also known as Manabu Peak).
The Malepunyo Range is an inactive volcano to which its caldera is facing south along the vicinity between Lipa City and San Antonio, Quezon. By the 1990s the Malepunyo Mountain Range has been erroneously tagged as Malarayat Mountain Range due to the famous country club located at its western slope named after the Malarayat Hill. Mount Malepunyo is its highest peak located at Barangay Talisay, Lipa City standing at 1,002 metres (3,287 ft) above mean sea level by the ridge of its caldera. The second highest peak of the range is Mt. Dalaga standing at 755 metres (2,477 ft) above mean sea level situated at the boundary of Santo Tomas, Batangas and Alaminos, Laguna. During the 1990s, the name was changed by the locals of Santo Tomas to Manabu as a shortened Tagalog phrase Mataas na Bundok which means "High Mountain". At the center of the mountain range is a cliff known as Bagwis Cliff by the locals, yet due to its shape that resembles a goat's breast, it is also called as Susong-Kambing (en:Goat's Breast). In time, mountaineers have also mistakenly named this cliff as Susong Dalaga (en. maiden's breast) which is actually the oldest name of Manabu Peak. A discontinued highway project connecting San Pablo City and Lipa City that traverses the central part of the mountain range made way for the creation of what the mountaineers call as Biak na Bundok (en. Sliced Mountain).
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