3. The Mayon Volcano , the most famous of the active
volcanoes of the Philippines. Is a perfect stratovolcano
rising to 2462 m on Luzon island. It erupts very frequently.
4. Background
Mayon is the archetype of a symmetrical stratovolcano and one
of the world most active ones. Mayon’s most violent erupted, in 1814,
killed more than 1200 people and devastated several towns.
5. Mt . Mayon has had 48 recored eruption in the past 400
years, with the 1841 event the most destructive when lave from the
vocano buried the entire town of cagsawa.
