Mount Santo Tomas

{{Short description|Stratovolcano in Benguet, Philippines}}

{{Distinguish|text=Mount Cabuyao, a lower mountain beside it}}

{{Use Philippine English|date=January 2023}}

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| name = Mount Santo Tomas

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| photo_caption = Mount Santo Tomas with its several TV and cellular transmitter towers

| elevation_m = 2260

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| prominence_m = 888

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| listing = potentially active volcanoes

| range = Cordillera Central

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| location = Luzon

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| country = Philippines

| state = Cordillera Administrative Region

| state_type = Region

| region = Benguet

| region_type = Province

| settlement = Tuba

| settlement_type = Municipality

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| type = Stratovolcano

| volcanic_arc = Luzon Volcanic Arc

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Mount Santo Tomas is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Philippines located in the municipality of Tuba in the province of Benguet. The mountain is part of the protected Santo Tomas Forest Reserve declared through Proclamation No. 581 signed by President Manuel L. Quezon on July 9, 1940.{{cite news |last1=Cabreza |first1=Vincent |title=Solon loses bid vs forest protection |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/741256/solon-loses-bid-vs-forest-protection |access-date=April 30, 2022 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=November 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121170433/https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/741256/solon-loses-bid-vs-forest-protection |archive-date=November 21, 2015 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Proclamation No. 581, s. 1940 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1940/07/08/proclamation-no-581-s-1940/ |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |access-date=April 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430084751/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1940/07/08/proclamation-no-581-s-1940/ |archive-date=April 30, 2022 |date=July 8, 1940}}

On May 5, 2015, a Permanent Environmental Protection Order was issued by the Court of Appeals with the Writ of Kalikasan and Writ of Continuing Mandamus.{{cite news |last1=Agoot |first1=Liza |title=Task force tightens security at Benguet forest reserve |url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1064461 |access-date=April 30, 2022 |work=Philippine News Agency |date=March 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317203620/https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1064461 |archive-date=March 17, 2019 |language=en}}

Due to its high elevation, several communications and broadcasting companies constructed relay stations at the summit.