Cancajanag
{{Short description|Volcano in the Philippines}}
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{{Infobox mountain
| name = Cancajang
| elevation_m = 900
| elevation_ref =
| location = Leyte, Philippines
| type = Complex volcano
| age = Unknown
| last_eruption = Unknown possibly Holocene
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-wikidata = yes
}}
Cancajanag is located within the municipal boundary of Dagami in the province of Leyte, on the island of Leyte, Region VIII, of the Philippines. It is located within the baranggays of Bouglayor and San Agustin.{{cite book |title=Official Gazette |date=1983 |page=2312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vy5RAQAAMAAJ |access-date=8 August 2022 |language=en|author1=Philippines }}
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Physical features
Cancajanag is classified by Philippine volcanologists as a potentially active dome complex volcano{{cite book |last1=Statistics |first1=Philippines Bureau of the Census and |title=Philippine Yearbook |date=1994 |publisher=Republic of the Philippines, National Economic and Development Authority, National Census and Statistics Office |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JlZylP2w6acC&pg=PA49 |access-date=8 August 2022 |language=en}} with an elevation of 900 meters and a base diameter of 4 kilometres. It is one of the 18 volcanoes in the province.{{cite news |title=FAST FACTS: Leyte and natural disasters |url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/174983-fast-facts-leyte-province-natural-disasters/ |access-date=8 August 2022 |work=RAPPLER |date=7 July 2017}}
It has a hot spring, Mainit Spring (Anahawan) with a temperature range of 63.4 °C to 63.9 °C,
Adjacent Volcanic Edifices are Alto Peak which is 6.2 cadastral km NNW of Cancajanag, and Lobi which is 6.6 cadastral km SSE of Cancajanag.
Predominant rock type is andesite.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110901184228/http://volcano.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/update_VMEPD/Volcano/VolcanoList/cancajanag.htm Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) Cancajanag Page]
- {{cite gvp|name=Cancajanag|vn=272803|access-date=2021-06-25}}
{{Volcanoes of the Philippines}}
Category:Potentially active volcanoes of the Philippines