Ifugao is a mountainous province located in northern Luzon, Philippines. It has a total land area of 2,517.78 square kilometers spread across 11 municipalities. The terrain is characterized by complex geological features like mountains, hills, valleys, and rivers. Some key landforms in Ifugao include valleys (nundotal), mountains (duntug or bilid), hills (pugu), plains (nundoddotal), rocky areas (talugtug, kalipkip), slopes (natigging/nunyopah), cliffs (doplah), and ridges (bantiligna/Fhuludna). The province has a population of around 154,590 people
Ifugao is a mountainous province located in northern Luzon, Philippines. It has a total land area of 2,517.78 square kilometers spread across 11 municipalities. The terrain is characterized by complex geological features like mountains, hills, valleys, and rivers. Some key landforms in Ifugao include valleys (nundotal), mountains (duntug or bilid), hills (pugu), plains (nundoddotal), rocky areas (talugtug, kalipkip), slopes (natigging/nunyopah), cliffs (doplah), and ridges (bantiligna/Fhuludna). The province has a population of around 154,590 people
Ifugao is a mountainous province located in northern Luzon, Philippines. It has a total land area of 2,517.78 square kilometers spread across 11 municipalities. The terrain is characterized by complex geological features like mountains, hills, valleys, and rivers. Some key landforms in Ifugao include valleys (nundotal), mountains (duntug or bilid), hills (pugu), plains (nundoddotal), rocky areas (talugtug, kalipkip), slopes (natigging/nunyopah), cliffs (doplah), and ridges (bantiligna/Fhuludna). The province has a population of around 154,590 people
Ifugao is a mountainous province located in northern Luzon, Philippines. It has a total land area of 2,517.78 square kilometers spread across 11 municipalities. The terrain is characterized by complex geological features like mountains, hills, valleys, and rivers. Some key landforms in Ifugao include valleys (nundotal), mountains (duntug or bilid), hills (pugu), plains (nundoddotal), rocky areas (talugtug, kalipkip), slopes (natigging/nunyopah), cliffs (doplah), and ridges (bantiligna/Fhuludna). The province has a population of around 154,590 people
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Land and Water Forms,
Use and Management
Ifugao at a glance • Region: Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) • Province: Ifugao • Municipality: 11 • Barangays: 175 • Population (as of 31 August 2015): 154,590 • Income Classification: 4th Class Province • Major economic activities: Agriculture, Mining, Tourism, Sand and Gravel Location and Topography of the Province of Ifugao • Ifugao has a land area total of 2,517.78 sq. km. or 251,728 hectares spread over its 11 municipalities. The biggest municipality in terms of land area is Aguinaldo with 454.51 sq. km. or 18.05% of the total provincial land area while the smallest is Hingyon with 114.56 sq. km. or 4.55%. Location and Topography of the Province of Ifugao • Ifugao's topography is geophysically mountainous and characterized by complex geological features. It is notably surrounded by mountains, lowlying hills and a very small alluvial land found along the Magat River, and rolling hills in the municipality of Lista. Terrain characteristics are usually rough and rugged with vshaped gullies, creeks, streams and u-shaped rivers. Location and Topography of the Province of Ifugao • Ifugao is a mountainous province located in Northern Luzon, and is bounded by Isabela on the east, Benguet on the west, Mountain Province on the north and Nueva Vizcaya on the south. It lies between 120°40’ to 121°31’ longitude and 16°35’ to 17°5’ latitude. • On the eastern side between the provinces of Ifugao and Isabela is the Magat River. On the western side between Ifugao and Benguet is Mount Pulag. On the northern part between Ifugao and Mountain Province is Mount Polis and on the southern side between Ifugao and Nueva Vizcaya is the Lamut River. • The Cordillera Administrative Region is created in 1987 through Executive Order No. 220 having Ifugao as one of its Provinces. Ifugao occupies 258,282 hectares of land area making up 13.84% of the total land area (1,865,659 has) in CAR. • Ifugao is accessible from Metro Manila via the Maharlika Highway passing through the provinces of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya. It is also accessible from Baguio City via Marcos Highway or via the Baguio-Ambuklao-Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya route. Landforms in Ifugao • Landforms- refer to the naturally formed features of the earth’s surface like the following: • Nundotal (valley) • Duntug or bilid (mountains) • Pugu (hill) • Nundoddotal (plains) • Talugtug, kalipkip (rocky) • Natigging/nunyopah (slopes) • Doplah (cliffs) • Bantiligna/Fhuludna (ridges)