Banaue Rice Terraces Part 2

Posted by Tanya Hotchkiss (Rotterdam, Netherlands) on 12 December 2007 in Landscape & Rural.

I'm feeling a little bit lazy so I'm just going to lift a little description of this place that I trekked to about two weeks ago... but, of course, I'm going to cite my sources, which in this case is Wikipedia. And since all information posted there is free to the public, I guess I'm in no danger of being sued as long as I cite my sources. So here goes:

Banaue Rice Terraces
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Banaue Rice Terraces (Tagalog: Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue) are 2000-year old terraces that were carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the Batad indigenous people. The Rice Terraces are commonly referred to as the "Eighth Wonder of the World". It is commonly thought that the terraces were built with minimal equipment, largely by hand. The terraces are located approximately 1500 meters (5000 feet) above sea level and cover 10,360 square kilometers (about 4000 square miles) of mountainside. They are fed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces.

The Banaue terraces are part of the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, ancient sprawling man-made structures from 2,000 to 6,000 years old. They are found in the provinces of Apayao, Benguet, Mountain Province and Ifugao.

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