MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 416, June 29, 1994 ]

AMENDING PROCLAMATION NO. 827, DATED 16 JULY 1935, WHICH RESERVED THE CALLAO CAVE NATIONAL PARK, BY EXPANDING ITS COVERAGE TO INCLUDE CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN SITUATED WITHIN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PENABLANCA, PROVINCE OF CAGAYAN, AND RE-NAMING THE SAME AS THE “PENABLANCA PROTECTED LANDSCAPE”

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested in me by law and by the provisions of Republic Act No. 7586, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby amend Proclamation No. 827, dated July 16, 1935, by expanding its coverage to include certain parcels of land of the public domain situated in the Municipality of Peñablanca, Province of Cagayan, embracing the cave ecosystems therein.

The entire are covered by this Proclamation is hereby withdrawn from sale, settlement, and exploitation and set aside as a Protected Landscape, subject to existing, recognized, and valid private rights, if any there be.1aшphi1

The tract of land involved herein is more particularly described as follows, to wit:

“Beginning at a point marked ‘1 on the map with geographical coordinates 17º 4216” North Latitude and 121º 4848” East Longitude,

thence N 09º W, 915 meters to corner 2;

thence N 41º E, 210 meters to corner 3;

thence N 26º W, 190 meters to corner 4;

thence N 07º W, 210 meters to corner 5;

thence N 05º E, 270 meters to corner 6;

thence N 20º E, 250 meters to corner 7;

thence N 20º E, 210 meters to corner 8;

thence N 16º E, 350 meters to corner 9;

thence N 18º E, 220 meters to corner 10;

thence N 31º E, 180 meters to corner 11;

thence N 31º E, 190 meters to corner 12;

thence N 31º E, 230 meters to corner 13;

thence N 24º E, 380 meters to corner 14;

thence S 78º E, 220 meters to corner 15;

thence S 74º E, 230 meters to corner 16;

thence N 77º E, 220 meters to corner 17;

thence N 78º E, 220 meters to corner 18;

thence N 77º E, 250 meters to corner 19;

thence N 75º E, 250 meters to corner 20;

thence S 65º E, 300 meters to corner 21;

thence N 75º E, 360 meters to corner 22;

thence S 38º E, 320 meters to corner 23;

thence N 58º E, 240 meters to corner 24;

thence S 30º E, 200 meters to corner 25;

thence N 58º E, 200 meters to corner 26;

thence S 45º E, 230 meters to corner 27;

thence N 87º E, 200 meters to corner 28;

thence N 86º E, 130 meters to corner 29;

thence N 87º E, 250 meters to corner 30;

thence N 37º E, 190 meters to corner 31;

thence N 85º E, 210 meters to corner 32;

thence S 82º E, 300 meters to corner 33;

thence N 44º E, 230 meters to corner 34;

thence N 20º E, 250 meters to corner 35;

thence N 27º E, 190 meters to corner 36;

thence N 87º E, 210 meters to corner 37;

thence N 87º E, 260 meters to corner 38;

thence N 87º E, 230 meters to corner 39;

thence N 25º E, 280 meters to corner 40;

thence N 23º E, 230 meters to corner 41;

thence N 23º E, 220 meters to corner 42;

thence N 23º W, 130 meters to corner 43;

thence N 23º W, 170 meters to corner 44;

thence N 23º W, 230 meters to corner 45;

thence N 81º E, 220 meters to corner 46;

thence N 84º E, 260 meters to corner 47;

thence N 84º E, 110 meters to corner 48;

thence S 88º E, 220 meters to corner 49;

thence N 50º E, 300 meters to corner 50;

thence N 43º E, 270 meters to corner 51;

thence S 11º W, 410 meters to corner 52;

thence S 81º E, 255 meters to corner 53;

thence Due S, 420 meters to corner 54;

thence S 34º E, 1100 meters to corner 55;

thence N 83º W, 1500 meters to corner 56;

thence S 13º W, 510 meters to corner 57;

thence S 62º W, 620 meters to corner 58;

thence S 62º E, 640 meters to corner 59;

thence S 52º W, 300 meters to corner 60;

thence S 51º W, 470 meters to corner 61;

thence S 31º W, 930 meters to corner 62;

thence S 43º W, 660 meters to corner 63;

thence S 44º W, 430 meters to corner 64;

thence S 52º W, 1290 meters to corner 65;

thence S 59º E, 550 meters to corner 66;

thence N 72º E, 330 meters to corner 67;

thence S 54º E, 645 meters to corner 68;

thence S 29º E, 200 meters to corner 69;

thence S 76º E, 350 meters to corner 70;

thence S 36º W, 240 meters to corner 71;

thence S 13º E, 200 meters to corner 72;

thence S 33º W, 200 meters to corner 73;

thence Due S, 170 meters to corner 74;

thence S 75º W, 150 meters to corner 75;

thence S 14º E, 990 meters to corner 76;

thence S 17º W, 615 meters to corner 77;

thence S 20º E, 805 meters to corner 78;

thence S 01º W, 606 meters to corner 79;

thence S 16º E, 602 meters to corner 80;

thence Due E, 974 meters to corner 81;

thence S 32º W, 758 meters to corner 82;

thence S 48º W, 495 meters to corner 83;

thence S 31º E, 150 meters to corner 84;

thence S 43º W, 165 meters to corner 85;

thence N 69º W, 325 meters to corner 86;

thence Due W, 400 meters to corner 87;

thence S 19º W, 250 meters to corner 88;

thence S 49º E, 260 meters to corner 89;

thence S 14º E, 200 meters to corner 90;

thence S 56º E, 110 meters to corner 91;

thence S 14º W, 120 meters to corner 92;

thence S 32º E, 450 meters to corner 93;

thence S 57º W, 455 meters to corner 94;

thence S 03º W, 1105 meters to corner 95;

thence S 03º E, 790 meters to corner 96;

thence Foll. Cabasan Creek WSW direction 350 meters to corner 97;

thence Foll. Cabasan Creek downstream W direction 240 meters to corner 98;

thence Foll. Cabasan Creek downstream NW direction 260 meters to corner 99;

thence Foll. Cabasan Creek SW direction 300 meters to corner 100;

thence Foll. Cabasan Creek SW direction 510 meters to corner 101;

thence N 53º W, 180 meters to corner 102;

thence N 07º W, 310 meters to corner 103;

thence N 20º W, 410 meters to corner 104;

thence N 20º W, 380 meters to corner 105;

thence N 51º E, 140 meters to corner 106;

thence N 25º E, 140 meters to corner 107;

thence N 19º E, 350 meters to corner 108;

thence N 30º W, 370 meters to corner 109;

thence N 30º W, 130 meters to corner 110;

thence N 58º E, 110 meters to corner 111;

thence N 29º W, 220 meters to corner 112;

thence N 22º E, 510 meters to corner 113;

thence S 79º W, 240 meters to corner 114;

thence N 20º W, 140 meters to corner 115;

thence N 27º E, 200 meters to corner 116;

thence N 18º E, 240 meters to corner 117;

thence N 15º W, 360 meters to corner 118;

thence N 37º E, 130 meters to corner 119;

thence Foll. Sisim Creek downstream NW direction 90 meters to corner 120;

thence N 09º E, 50 meters to corner 121;

thence N 30º E, 180 meters to corner 122;

thence Due N, 160 meters to corner 123;

thence Due N, 300 meters to corner 124;

thence N 30º W, 60 meters to corner 125;

thence N 40º E, 50 meters to corner 126;

thence N 07º W, 100 meters to corner 127;

thence N 02º E, 60 meters to corner 128;

thence N 37º W, 440 meters to corner 129;

thence N 01º W, 1060 meters to corner 130;

thence Due N, 800 meters to corner 131;

thence N 02º W, 3060 meters to corner 1,

which is the point of beginning, containing a total area of FOUR THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX (4,136) HECTARES, more or less.

The subject premises shall henceforth be known as the “Penablanca Protected Landscape” and shall be under the administration and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in coordination with the local government units concerned and shall likewise form part of the jurisdiction of the Protected Area Management Board pursuant to Republic Act No. 7586 (NIPAS Act of 1992).

The primary purpose of this amendment is to expand the coverage of the area to include ecologically-important portions and the cave ecosystems found therein in order to conserve, manage, and protect their scenic, cultural, historical, scientific, recreational, and archeological features.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 29th day of June in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety four.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary


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