page_title: Lake Apo
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Apo / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: English: An image of the central region of Lake Apo taken from a floating raft cottage.
context_page_description: Lake Apo is a crater lake in Barangay Guinoyoran in the city of Valencia in Bukidnon province in the Philippines. It is located in a hilly area about 640 metres in elevation, about 11 kilometres WSW of the city poblacion. Lake Apo was awarded the cleanest inland body of water in Northern Mindanao Region in the late 1990s. The green body of water has an estimated area of 24 hectares with maximum depths reaching up to 26 m.
context_section_description: The name of the lake come from the bisaya term apo, meaning elder or grandparent. According to legend, there was a man living in the mountains who assaulted his granddaughter and was punished by the mountain deities for his disrespectful act by flooding the area forming the Lake Apo.
caption: An image of the central region of the lake taken from a floating raft cottage
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