🦎 Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary

Philippines · Asia · Nature Reserve · 6.74°N, 126.18°E

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Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary
Mount Hamiguitan is a mountain located in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. It has a height of 1,620 metres (5,315 ft). The mountain and its vicinity has one of the most diverse wildlife populations in the country. Among the wildlife found in the area are Philippine eagles and several species of Nepenthes. Some of the latter, such as the Nepenthes peltata and Nepenthes micramphora, are endemic to the area. The mountain has a protected forest area of approximately 2,000 hectares. This woodland is noted for its unique pygmy forest of century-old trees in ultramafic soil, with many endangered, endemic and rare species of flora and fauna.

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Quick facts

CountryPhilippines
Continent / regionAsia
Protection type🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)6.74°N, 126.18°E · view on map

Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in Philippines, in Asia. The details of why Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Coordinates are an approximate area centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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