Botolan
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Botolan, officially the Municipality of Botolan, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Zambales, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 66,739 people.
Poblacion, Botolan
Town hall of Botolan
The beach at Barangay Beneg, looking south towards the Bucao River
Left: Original Statue of Apo Apang (Aglipayan Church), Right: Replica Statue of Ina Poon Bato (Roman Catholic).
Mount Pinatubo
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Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains, located on the tripoint boundary of the Philippine provinces of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga, all in Central Luzon on the northern island of Luzon. Its eruptive history was unknown to most before the pre-eruption volcanic activity of early 1991. Pinatubo was heavily eroded and obscured from view by dense forests which supported a population of several thousand indigenous Aetas.
Mount Pinatubo crater lake in 2012
Aerial view of Mount Pinatubo before the 1991 eruption, March 1933
Pinatubo in April 1991, approximately two months before the eruption.
The eruption column of Mount Pinatubo on June 12, 1991, three days before the climactic eruption