Lago de Buhi (Bicol, Philippines)
Buhi lake, Philippines
| Volcano: | Buhi (see Buhi at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Lake |
| Description: | Lago de Buhi is a lake found in Buhi, Camarines Sur in the Philippines. It has an area of 18 square kilometres (6.9 square miles) and has an average depth of 8 metres. The lake lies in the valley formed by two ancient volcanoes, Mount Iriga and Mount Malinao.Today the lake is the main source of water supply for the National Power Corporation Hydro Electric Plant. |
Point of contact for this site:
Nemesio M. Pérez, nperez@iter.es (Environmental Research Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables )
Bibliographic references for this site
Pérez, Nemesio M., Pedro A. Hernández, German Padilla, Dácil Nolasco, José Barrancos, Gladys Melían,Eleazar Padrón, Samara Dionis, David Calvo, Fátima Rodríguez, Kenji Notsu, Toshiya Mori, Minoru Kusakabe, M. Carmencita Arpa, Paolo Reniva, and Martha Ibarra, 2011,Global CO2 emission from volcanic lakes, Geology, vol.39, n.3, pp. 235-238, DOI: 10.1130/G31586.1
