Mount Ragang

Mount Ragang
Mount Piapayungan
Mount Ragang Location of Mount Ragang in the Philippines
Highest point
Elevation	2,815 m (9,236 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	1,590 m (5,220 ft) ^[2]
Listing	Ultra
Coordinates	7°41′40″N 124°30′27″E / 7.69444°N 124.50750°E / 7.69444; 124.50750Coordinates: 7°41′40″N 124°30′27″E / 7.69444°N 124.50750°E / 7.69444; 124.50750 ^[1]
Geography
Location	Mindanao, Philippines
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	July 1916

Mount Ragang, also called Mount Piapayungan and Blue Mountain by the local people, is a stratovolcano on Mindanao island in the Philippines. It is the seventh highest mountain in the Philippines.

Location

Mount Ragang is located on the boundary of the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Cotabato in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Physical features

Ragang has an elevation of 2,815 metres (9,236 ft) and a base diameter of 32 km (20 mi).

It is the most active volcano on Mindanao, and is part of a string of volcanoes in what volcanologists call the Central Mindanao Arc. It is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, which are all part of the Pacific ring of fire.

Eruptions

There is still some confusion on the number of times Ragang has erupted. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology lists eight eruptions with the last one occurring in July 1916. But the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanology Programs, citing the Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World (Neumann van Padang, 1953), suggests that some eruptions attributed to nearby Makaturing were actually those of Ragang.

References

1 2 "Mount Ragang". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
↑ "Philippines Mountains". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-03-11.

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Ten Highest Mountains in the Philippines

Rank	Name & Height

1st	Mount Apo (2,954 m or 9,692 ft)

2nd	Mount Dulang-dulang (2,938 m or 9,639 ft)

3rd	Mount Pulag (2,922 m or 9,587 ft)

4th	Mount Kitanglad (2,899 m or 9,511 ft)

5th	Mount Tabayoc (2,842 m or 9,324 ft)

6th	Mount Kalatungan (2,824 m or 9,265 ft)

7th	Mount Ragang (2,815 m or 9,236 ft)

8th	Mount Maagnaw (2,742 m or 8,996 ft)

9th	Mount Amuyao (2,702 m or 8,865 ft)

10th	Mount Singakalsa (2,688 m or 8,819 ft)

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