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Pantabangan–Carranglan Watershed Forest Reserve
The Pantabangan–Carranglan Watershed Forest Reserve is a conservation area located in the upper reaches of the Pampanga River in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, and borders the Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains in Aurora and Nueva Vizcaya. It encompasses of the drainage basin surrounding the Pantabangan Lake, an impoundment of the Pampanga River by the Pantabangan Dam. The multi-purpose dam is situated at the confluence of Pampanga River's two headwaters, namely the Pantabangan and Carranglan Rivers in the municipality of Pantabangan. It stretches above the dam site for to where Carranglan River originates in the Caraballo on the north, and for to where Pantabangan River originates in the Sierra Madre on the east. It is considered a critical watershed for the agricultural economy and hydroelectric power generation in the region of Central Luzon. History Proclamation No. 561 established the reserve's boundaries and protecting the area for watershed purposes on May 21, 1969. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija, officially the Province of Nueva Ecija ( ; ; ; ), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Palayan, while Cabanatuan, its former capital, is the largest Local government in the Philippines, local government unit (LGU). Nueva Ecija borders, from the south clockwise, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, Nueva Vizcaya and Aurora (province), Aurora. The province is nationally known as the ''Rice Granary of the Philippines'', producing the largest rice yield in the country. History Early history These first settlers included tribes of Bugkalots or Italons, Abaca and Buquids. Settlements were built along the banks following the river's undulations. The Bugkalot, Ilongots, meaning people of the forest, were the fierce headhunters and animist tribes who occupied Carranglan and the mountainous terrain of Sierra Madre (Philippines), Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains. The head hunting communities were n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Agroforestry Centre
World Agroforestry (a brand name used by the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF) is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978 as "International Council for Research in Agroforestry". The centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves. It is one of 15 agricultural research centres which makes up the global network known as the CGIAR. Description The centre conducts research in agroforestry, in partnership with national agricultural research systems with a view to developing more sustainable and productive land use. The focus of its research is countries/regions in the developing world, particular in the tropics of Central and South America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Africa, Eastern Africa and parts of central Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dupax Del Sur
Dupax del Sur, officially the Municipality of Dupax del Sur, is a municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 21,224 people. Etymology The name Dupax came from the Isinay word "''dopaj''" which means "to lie down in complete relaxation and rest", the thing the natives wanted to do, upon repairing their camp and eating their catch, after hunting in the forest and before going homes. Prior to the establishment of Dupax, the site of what would be its town proper served as a camp for hunters from surrounding tribal settlements. The area, either a plain or a valley, was located near their hunting grounds, and became their settlement as the town of ''Dopaj''. After the Spanish arrived, the name was spelled as ''Dupax'' due to the Spanish orthography of the time. History The town of Dupax was first discovered by Luis Pérez Dasmariñas in 1591. Eighteen years later, the mission was established by the Dominicans, but was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Castañeda
Alfonso Castañeda, officially the Municipality of Alfonso Castañeda (; ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 8,539 people, making it the least populated municipality in the province. History The territory that now comprises Alfonso Castañeda was part of the municipality of Dupax prior to the division into three separate ones; the other two were Dupax del Norte and Dupax del Sur. In the early 18th century, Dupax was inhabited by three tribes. One of them were the Bugkalots; the rest were the Malaats and the Caraos. In 1930, five families supposedly from Batac, Ilocos Norte settled in Lublub, an area inhabited by Bugkalots which was later organized as a ''sitio'' of ''barrio'' Marikit when the inhabitants increased; Virgilio Castillo was the first ''teniente del barrio''. In 1950, it became an independent ''barrio'' in Pantabangan, Nueva Ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carranglan, Nueva Ecija
Carranglan, officially the Municipality of Carranglan (; ), is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 42,420 people. The municipality is home to the Pantabangan–Carranglan Watershed Forest Reserve. Geography With an area spanning 705.13 km2, t is the province's largest municipality in terms of land area. Barangays Carranglan is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios A ''sitio'' (Spanish language, Spanish for "site") in the Philippines is a territorial enclave that forms part of a barangay. Typically rural, a ''sitios location is usually far from the center of the barangay itself and could be its own bar .... * Baluarte (now R.A. Padilla) * Bantug * Bunga * Burgos * Capintalan * Digdig (now called Joson) * General Luna * Minuli * Piut * Puncan * Putlan * Salazar * San Agustin * T. L. Padilla Pob. (Barangay I) * F. C. Otic Pob. (Barangay I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manila
Manila, officially the City of Manila, is the Capital of the Philippines, capital and second-most populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City, with a population of 1,846,513 people in 2020. Located on the eastern shore of Manila Bay on the island of Luzon, it is classified as a Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities, highly urbanized city. With , Manila is one of the world's List of cities proper by population density, most densely populated cities proper. Manila was the first chartered city in the country, designated bPhilippine Commission Act No. 183on July 31, 1901. It became autonomous with the passage of Republic Act No. 409, "The Revised Charter of the City of Manila", on June 18, 1949. Manila is considered to be part of the world's original set of global cities because its commercial networks were the first to extend across the Pacific Ocean and connect Asia with the Hispanic America, Spanish Americas through the Manila galleon, galleon trade. This marked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poblacion
''Poblacion'' (from Spanish '' población'', meaning "population"), sometimes abbreviated as Pob., is a term used in the Philippines to refer to the administrative center, downtown, old town, or commercial area of a city or municipality. It may consist of a single barangay or multiple barangays. Colloquially, the ''poblacion'' area is also referred to as the ''bayan'' (see also other definitions of '' bayan'') or ''plaza''. History During the Spanish rule, the colonial government founded hundreds of towns and villages across the archipelago modeled on towns and villages in Spain. The authorities often adopted a policy of Reducción, for the resettlement of inhabitants in far-flung scattered barangays to move into a centralized ''cabecera'' (town/district capital) where a newly built church and an '' ayuntamiento'' (town hall) were situated. This allowed the government to defend, control and Christianize the indigenous population, to conduct population counts, and to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barangay
The barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as ''barrio'', is the smallest Administrative divisions of the Philippines, administrative division in the Philippines. Named after the Precolonial barangay, precolonial polities of the same name, modern barangays are political subdivisions of cities and municipalities which are analogous to Village#Philippines, villages, districts, neighborhoods, suburbs, or boroughs. The word ''barangay'' originated from ''balangay'', a type of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines. All Municipalities of the Philippines, municipalities and Cities of the Philippines, cities in the Philippines are politically subdivided into barangays, with the exception of the municipalities of Adams, Ilocos Norte, Adams in Ilocos Norte and Kalayaan, Palawan, Kalayaan in Palawan, each containing a single barangay. Barangays are sometimes informally subdivided into smaller areas called ''purok'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Agrarian Reform
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR; ) is an executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the redistribution of agrarian land in the Philippines. The secretary of agrarian reform is the head of DAR. List of the Secretaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform Organizational structure The Department is currently headed by a Secretary with the following Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries: *Undersecretary for Field Operations *Undersecretary for External Affairs and Communications Operations *Undersecretary for Support Services *Undersecretary for Finance, Management and Administration *Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and Research *Undersecretary for Legal Affairs *Undersecretary for Foreign Assisted and Special Projects *Undersecretary for Special Concerns *Undersecretary for Mindanao Affairs and Rural Development *Assistant Secretary for Field Operations *Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs in Agrarian Law Implementation and Agrarian Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Power Corporation
The National Power Corporation (, also known as NAPOCOR, NPC or National Power) is a Philippine government-owned and controlled corporation that is mandated to provide electricity to all rural areas of the Philippines by 2025 (known as "missionary electrification"), to manage water resources for power generation, and to optimize the use of other power generating assets. Prior to the effectivity of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) law or Republic Act No. 9136 on March 1, 2003 two years after its June 8, 2001 approval by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo which deregulated the power industry and turned over the operations, maintenance, and ownership of the Philippine power grid from NAPOCOR/NPC to another government-owned corporation National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) (established on June 26, 2001 18 days after the EPIRA was approved) on March 1, 2003 as mandated on the said law that organized the industry into four sectors: generation, transmission, dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bureau Of Soils And Water Management (Philippines)
The Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM; ) is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for advising and rendering assistance on matters relative to the utilization of soils and water as vital agricultural resources. History The first soil survey in the Philippines was conducted by Clarence W. Dorsey, an American soil scientist, in 1903. He classified the soils of Batangas Province. But it was not until 1921 at the Division of the Soil and Fertilizers was organized under the Bureau of Science. Its activities were confined to the studies of the chemistry of soils and fertilizers. Most of the studies were done at sugarcane areas. In 1934, the Soil Survey Committee was organized by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce. The committee was composed of the Directors of the Bureau of Science, of Plant Industry, of Lands, of Forestry, of Mines and of Weather. The Undersecretary was the Committee Chairman. In 1936, the Bureau of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
