Angat Watershed Forest Reserve
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| Location: | Philippines | ||
| Specialty: | Bulacan Province | ||
| Next city: | San Jose del Monte City | ||
| Surface: | 578.91 km² | ||
| Founding: | April 30, 1968 | ||
The Angat Watershed Forest Reserve is a water and nature reserve on the island of Luzon in the Philippines . It covers an area of 57,891 hectares and is located on the eastern border of the Bulacan Province , on the territory of the municipalities of Doña Remedios Trinidad , Norzagaray and San Jose del Monte City . It is the most important source of water for the metropolitan area of Metro Manila, which has a population of 12 million . It was established by Presidential Decree No. 391 on April 30, 1968.
The Angat Watershed Forest Reserve extends in the mountains of the Sierra Madre , about 35 km northwest of Manila , to the summit regions of the 1,187 meter high Mount Oriod . It stretches along the Angat, a tributary of the Pampanga , and the Angat lake, which was dammed up by the Angat dam . It comprises the smaller Angat Pilot Project Watershed Forest Reserve , which is around 6,672 hectares in size, in the south of the conservation area. It is one of the southern nature reserves in the Sierra Madre Biosphere Corridor.
Large, closed, lowland rainforests grow in the nature reserve, dominated by wing fruit plants , which occupy an altitude band of 490 to 920 meters. The closed forests separate areas where bamboo forests and heather and grasslands grow. The soil condition is called nutrient-poor soils, there is a lack of humus soils.
The Filipino Pustelschwein , the Filipino relative of the crab-eating macaque and the Filipino deer , live in this reserve . The bird populations include the Philippine crested eagle , the striped owl , various types of fruit pigeons and kingfishers .
The crest of the Angat dam
The crest of the Angat dam
Angat reservoir
