Palakpakin Lake-San Buenaventura,San Pablo City,Laguna Province,Philippines

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Palakpakin Lake-San Buenaventura,San Pablo City,Laguna Province,Philippines Palakpakin Lake in Barangay San Buenaventura. [One of the 7 Lakes of San Pablo City,Laguna Province,Philippines. Palakpakin is located in Brgy.

Lake Palakpakin is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo in Laguna province in the Philippines. San Buenaventura, San Pablo City. With an area of 43 hectares (110 acres), it has a maximum depth of 7.5 metres (25 ft). Residents around the lake rely on income from fishpens and fishcages that grow cultured tilapia and silver carps. Legend:

A few kilometers north of the city proper was a village which

had become known then for its ancient tree which had a hollow trunk. It was called Palakpak. Some villagers said that on moonlit nights they could see a beautiful, red-haired lady washing her long hair with the hollow trunk serving as her wash basin. There is also river nearby where a big fish appeared each night when the beautiful lady was around. The villagers would not catch it, believing that it must be her pet. One day, a stranger came to the village and tried to solve the mystery about the red-haired lady and the fish. And so one moonlit night, he waited for her. Seeing the lady in her pristine glory, the stranger approached her. All of a sudden there was thunder and lightning. The earth quaked with terrible intensity, while the river swelled alarmingly into a lake. From that time onwards, that lake produces a large quantity of shrimps which when cooked, turned red. People since then had affectionately called their village Palakpakin, after that ancient tree and the shrimps in the lake became a principal source of livelihood, which they call Hipong Palakpakin or Palakpakin Shrimp.

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In the Philippines, Regions (Filipino: rehiyon, ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative divisions that serve primarily to organize the Provinces (lalawigan) of the country for administrative convenience.

Currently, the archipelagic republic of the Philippines is divided into 18 regions (17 administrative and 1 autonomous). Most government offices are established by region instead of individual provincial offices, usually (but not always) in the city designated as the regional center.

The regions themselves do not possess a separate local government, with the exception of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which has an elected regional assembly and governor.

The Cordillera Administrative Region was originally intended to be autonomous (Cordillera Autonomous Region), but the failure of two plebiscites for its establishment reduced it to a regular administrative region.

History:

Regions first came to existence in on September 24, 1972, when the provinces of the Philippines were organized into 11 regions by Presidential Decree № 1 as part of the Integrated Reorganization Plan of President Ferdinand Marcos.
NCR:
National Capital Region.
Metropolitan Manila(Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila, Kamaynilaan), commonly known as Metro Manila or simply Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR) of the Philippines, is the seat of government and the most populous region of the country which is composed of Manila, the capital city of the country, Quezon City, the country's most populous city, the Municipality of Pateros, and the cities of Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela.

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The Seven Lakes of San Pablo (Filipino: Pitong Lawa ng San Pablo) are seven crater lakes scattered around the City of San Pablo, in the province of Laguna, Philippines.

The seven lakes of the city are:
1] Lake Bunot
2] Lake Calibato, sometimes spelled as Lake Kalibato
3] The twin lakes of Yambo and Pandin
4] Lake Palakpakin, sometimes spelled as Lake Palacpaquin or Palacpaquen
5] Lake Muhikap, also known as Lake Mojicap or Lake Mohicap
6] Lake Sampaloc, also spelled as Lake Sampalok, the largest of the seven lakes.

Geology:
The lakes are maars or low-profile volcanic craters located in the San Pablo Volcanic Field. They are among the 200 small monogenetic volcanoes found along the Macolod Corridor, a rift zone between Mount Makiling and Mount Banahaw, which is part of the larger Southwestern Luzon Volcanic Field.
These craters are formed by phreatomagmatic eruptions, an eruption where ground water comes in contact with hot magma pushing up near the Earth's surface.

Petrographic Analysis:
In a recent rocks and sediment analysis or petrographic study on the lakes and adjoining rivers in San Pablo, sulfate concentrations were considerably higher than the naturally occurring sulfates from volcanism. Samples were taken from other areas underlain with similar volcanic rocks from the old eruptions (e.g. Taal volcano) like Indang, in the province of Cavite and the La Mesa Watershed, the water supply reservoir for Metropolitan Manila. The analyses indicated that the elevated level of sulfates were not related to volcanism but anthropogenic or man-made, and among the causes are sewage, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides etc.

Hiking trails:
In 2005, the Rotary Club of San Pablo City held a ceremony that officially opened the hiking trails that connect the seven lakes of the city. The Rotarians were aiming for economic, environmental and health benefits of the trails to the community.

Conservation:
The lakes are threatened by human intervention and exploitation, most especially Lake Sampaloc, which is located right in the center of San Pablo City. Several illegal settlements, illegal fish pens, commercial and business infrastructures on the shores have proliferated on some of the lakes causing increased pollution.

Overuse of commercial fish feeds have resulted in high nitrogen levels and low dissolved oxygen that has led to fish kills in the early and late 1990s. In January 2004, fish kills were observed in six of the seven lakes.

Various ecological conservation efforts by both government and non-government organizations, like the Friends of the Seven Lakes Foundation, had been implemented in recent years. One of these is the demolition of human-made structures along the lakes' shoreline.

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