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Cavite, city, southern Luzon, Philippines. Cavite occupies a peninsula on the southern shore of Manila Bay and is primarily a residential centre for commuters to Manila, which lies to the northeast. In 1872 the city was the site of the Cavite Mutiny, a brief and unsuccessful uprising of Filipino soldiers and workers against Spanish rule. In 1896–97 the city was an important base for Emilio Aguinaldo, the insurrectionary leader against Spain.

Cavite was chartered in 1940 and served for a time as a provincial capital. Sangley Point Naval Base, at the city’s outer edge, was an old Spanish naval base that was captured by Commodore George Dewey (May 1, 1898). It thereafter functioned as the chief U.S. naval base and fueling station in Asia until 1941. It continues as a Philippine naval air facility and shipyard, and transport equipment is manufactured there. It is also a commercial centre and fishing port. Pop. (2000) 99,367; (2010) 101,120.

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Taal Lake, lake in southwestern Luzon, Philippines, occupying a volcanic crater with a maximum width of 15 miles (24 km), at less than 10 feet (3 metres) above sea level. It has an area of 94 square miles (244 square km) and is the country’s third largest lake. Within the lake rises Volcano Island (984 feet [300 metres]), which itself contains another small crater (Yellow Lake). Volcano Island, called Taal Volcano, has erupted more than 34 times since 1572, most recently in 2020.

The outer flanks of the old caldera rise gently to cliffs that reach a high point in the southeast at Mount Macalod (3,107 feet [947 metres]). Taal Lake lies within a national park and is a major tourist attraction; it is most commonly viewed from Tagaytay Ridge in the north. The Pansipit River drains the lake into Balayan Bay of the South China Sea through a breach in the cliffs to the southwest.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by John P. Rafferty.