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Detailed explanation-1: -Taal, located in the Philippines, is part of a caldera system in southern Luzon Island. Recorded eruptions date back to 3, 580 BCE. The caldera is 15 x 20 km and contains Lake Taal, which has a depth of 160 m, and an island that also contains a lake within the Main Crater.

Detailed explanation-2: -Taal Volcano is the smallest active volcano in the world. Its unexplained shape and location on an island within a lake within an island, makes it a unique geologic wonder, enthralling thousands of tourists and geologists yearly.

Detailed explanation-3: -Taal Lake is located about 60 km southeast of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on the main island Luzon. The fresh water lake is located within a complex volcanic caldera, one of the great volcano-tectonic depressions of the world. Its altitude is only 2.5 m and its surface measures 234.2 sq. km.

Detailed explanation-4: -Taal ([taʔal]), officially the Municipality of Taal (Tagalog: Bayan ng Taal), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 61, 460 people.

Detailed explanation-5: -Located in Batangas, Taal is part of a group of volcanoes on the Macolod Corridor. This rift zone or the area where linear cracks develop stretches for about 50-60 kilometers and includes Mt. Makiling bordering Batangas and Laguna, Mt.