Mounts Banahaw San Cristobal National Park
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| Location: | Philippines | ||
| Specialty: | Luzon | ||
| Next city: | Tayabas City | ||
| Surface: | 113.25 km² | ||
| Founding: | August 9, 1966 | ||
The Mounts Banahaw-San-Cristobal National Park is located on the border of the two provinces Laguna and Quezon on the island of Luzon in the Philippines . It covers an area of 11,325 hectares and was established with the entry into force of Presidential Decree 716 of May 21, 1941 and No. 75 of August 9, 1966. It is proposed as a protected landscape area in the Nipas Act of 1992. The communities of Dolores , Sariaya , San Pablo City and Tayabas City are partly on the grounds of the national park.
geography
The national park extends around the two isolated volcanoes Banahaw , height 2169 meters, and San Cristobal with a height of 1470 meters above sea level. Due to the volcanic activity, there are some attractions such as the San Pablo-Tiaong hot / warm springs, Bakia warm / cold springs, Sampaloc warm springs, Mainit hot / warm springs and Cagsiay hot / warm springs or the crater lakes in the south of the municipality of Dolores, the Dagatan - and Ticab Lake, in the national park area.
flora
Around the Banahaw are the largest closed forests in the Laguna province, it is flatland rainforest that extends up to a height of 900 meters, above that grows a mountain rainforest that extends to the summit regions. At the lower elevations, there are also coconut palm plantations interspersed with other fruit trees. The lowland rainforest is threatened by the slash and burn in this area. The areas surrounding the national park are heavily used for agriculture.
fauna
Many endemic animal species live in the national park, such as the rare short-nosed flying foxes Haplonycteris fischeri and Otopteropus cartilagonodus , Apomys microdon , which comes from the old-world mice family , the nasal rat Rhynchomys banahao and the largest mammal, the Philippine pustular pig ( Sus philippensis ).
The endemic mountain forest frogs Platymantis montanus , the Naomi forest frog Platymantis naomii , Platymantis banahao , Platymantis mimulus , Philautus surdus and the reptile Sphenomorphus steerei , among others, live in the national park ; four other frog species are still awaiting a scientific description. Furthermore, a multitude of unique palm species, ferns and flowering plants such as Aglaia banahaensis , Rafflesia bud and Rafflesia banahawensis, which smell of rotting meat, thrive in the national park .
The national park is an important habitat for the Mindoro thrush ( Zoothera cinerea ), the striped uhu ( Bubo philippensis ), the red-tailed cockatoo ( Cacatua haematuropygia ), the blood-winged fruit pigeon ( Ptilinopus marchei ) and the Philippine eagle ( Pithecophaga jefferyi ).
Culture
The Mounts Banahaw-San-Cristobal National Park is a popular destination for tourists, but even more so for the Christian population of the Philippines. The two mountains Banahaw and San Cristobal represent good and bad in popular belief. Therefore, the region is an important spiritual center of the Philippines. The Banahaw is the "holy mountain" in this belief and the San Cristobal symbolizes the "Devil's Mountain". All Christian denominations in the Philippines have set up a shrine around the mountains, to which the local population makes pilgrimages on special feast days. The national park is located about 80 km southeast of Manila and can be reached via the Marhalika Highway and the South Luzon Expressway.
See also
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- The National Park on Birdlife
- World Database on Protected Areas - Mts. Banahaw – San Cristobal Protected Landscape (English)
- Publication by Carmina Villariba-Tolentino, PhD authors Engr. Renato M. Vergara, MSc Mr. Gilbert H. Garcia: Biodeversity Nores of Conversation of Rafflesia banahawensis of Kinabuhuyan and Mt. Banahaw
- The BANAHAW volcanic complex on PHIVOLCS