“The Secret Lagoon”, [not its real name!] is located in Barangay San Isidro, not far from Kahulugan Falls.
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Category Archives: Nature
Linabu Mountain View
Balusan Falls
Balusan Falls, Barangay Camuayan
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Approx 7½ km from National Highway
Balusan Falls & Camuayan Cold Spring seems to be the same place.
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Mount Balatukan Range Natural Park
Mount Balatukan is a massive compound stratovolcano in the northern island of Mindanao, Philippines. It is the highest point in the province of Misamis Oriental. The volcano has no historical eruptions but displays fumarolic activity. The 2,450-metre (8,040 ft) mountain is topped by a triangular shaped caldera 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) long and 10.6 kilometers (6.6 mi) at its widest. The Balatocan River emanates from and drains the huge crater. (Source)
Mount Balatukan Range Natural Park (MBRNP) is one of the 94 Protected Areas in the Philippines established pursuant to Republic Act No 11038 (Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018) on June 22, 2018 by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. It covers one (1) city and three (3) municipalities namely: city of Gingoog, municipalities of Claveria, Medina and Balingasag, Province of Misamis Oriental. It covers a total of 8,437.86 hectares protected zone and 2,596.51 hectares buffer zone of forested hinterland.
The highest mountain peak rises to 2,238 meters above sea level (MASL). The natural park holds 17 major rivers that drain to different areas. The Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) governs the management with the Protected Area Superintendent as operation manager under the Protected Area Management Office – MBRNP (Source)
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Lingon-Lingon Plateau Park
“This park often serves as a summer resort camp for most people. The place is ideal for activities like bird watching and mountain climbing.”
The Lingon-lingon Mountain is mentioned in this article The Highlands of Lantad and Dodiongan-Lingongon Mountains in another Lantad Highland’s Story Revealed
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“Samay Falls”
Balingasag Baywalk
Kahulugan Falls
Mao-Mao Falls
Mariculture Park
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This fisherman navigates his boat through the fish pens filled with Bangus fingerlings at the Mariculture Park in Balingasag town, Misamis Oriental, Tuesday morning, April 15, 2014. (Erwin M. Mascariñas) (Source)
Balingasag Mariculture Park Brgys. Waterfall, Baliwagan, Hermano, Binitinan and Brgy. 6
Balingasag is home of a 195.07- hectare of mariculture park which covered 5 coastal barangays. Launched in 2007, the park serves as the center of fishery-related activities such as aquaculturing, mangroves growing, sea ranching, and sea sanctuary. It now has 243 cages in which majority is occupied for bangus cultivation. In 2010, the volume of milkfish production reached more than 900 metric tons.
Since the operation of the mariculture park, a significant increase in bangus productivity is observed. It is declared as One Town, One Product (OTOP) of the municipality and through the collaborations of BFAR 10 and LGU-Balingasag, the Balingasag bangus is now exported in the United States. (Source)
WHY RAISE FISH IN A MARICULTURE PARK?
See Milkfish culture in sea cages. (3.2Mb PDF)
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