MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1155, February 3, 1998 ]

DECLARING LAKE DANAO AND ITS VICINITIES SITUATED IN THE CITY OF ORMOC, PROVINCE OF LEYTE, AS PROTECTED AREA PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7586 (NIPAS ACT OF 1992) AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS LAKE DANAO NATURAL PARK

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and pursuant to the powers vested upon me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby set aside and declare Lake Danao and its vicinities situated in the City of Ormoc, Province of Leyte, as Protected Area under the category of Natural Park, subject to prior private rights, if any, as described in DENR NIPAS Map No. RO8 - 3:

Beginning at point marked 1 on DENR NIPAS Map No. RO8-3 is identical to corner 2, Block VII (A&D), project No. 10-B or about 1,450 m. N., 82º 30? from road junction to Brgy. Cabacahan and Cabadyangan;

thence S. 52º 00" E., 610.00 m. to point 2;

thence following dry creek upstream in a general southwesterly direction about 670 m. to point 3;

thence S. 85º 00" E., 260.00 m. to point 4;
thence S. 49º 00" E., 200.00 m. to point 5,
thence S. 68º 00" E., 240.00 m. to point 6;
thence S. 36º 00" E., 200.00 m. to point 7,
thence S. 48º 00" E., 200.00 m. to point 8,
thence S. 45º 00" E., 250.00 m. to point 9,
thence S. 71º 00" E., 220.00 m. to point 10;
thence N. 63º 00" E., 190.00 m. to point 11;
thence S. 86º 00" E., 190.00 m. to point 12;
thence N. 67º 00" E., 140.00 m. to point 13;
thence N. 67º 00" E., 140.00 m. to point 14;

thence following Hagimit Creek downstream in a general southeasterly direction about 450.00 m. to point 15;

thence S. 89º 00" E., 290.00 m. to point 16;
thence N. 26º 00" W., 120.00 m. to point 17;
thence N. 08º 00" W., 310.00 m. to point 18;
thence N. 70º 00" E., 470.00 m. to point 19;

thence following Casulgan River, downstream in a general southeasterly direction about 1,470.00 m. to point 20;

thence following Casulgan River, downstream in a general southeasterly direction about 550.00 m. to point 21;

thence following Casulgan River, downstream in a general southeasterly direction about 2,000.00 m. to point 22;

thence following Binahaan River, upstream in a general southeasterly direction about 960.00 m. to point 23;

thence following Inawasan River, upstream in a general southwesterly direction about 1,180.00 m. to point 24;

thence following Inawasan River, upstream in a general northwesterly direction about 940.00 m. to point 25;

thence following Cumaguisan Creek, upstream in a general southwesterly direction about 1,360.00 m. to point 26;

thence following Cumaguisan Creek, upstream in a general southwesterly direction about 900.00 m. to point 27;

thence S. 63º 00" W., 140.00 m. to point 28;
thence S. 49º 00" W., 350.00 m. to point 29;
thence S. 86º 00" W., 410.00 m. to point 30;
thence S. 75º 00" W., 280.00 m. to point 31;
thence S. 88º 00" W., 300.00 m. to point 32;
thence N. 32º 00" W., 240.00 m. to point 33;
thence N. 89º 00" W., 280.00 m. to point 34;
thence N. 59º 00" W., 220.00 m. to point 35;
thence N. 87º 00" W., 160.00 m. to point 36;
thence N. 45º 00" W., 320.00 m. to point 37;
thence N. 32º 00" W., 340.00 m. to point 38;
thence N. 43º 00" W., 200.00 m. to point 39;
thence N. 86º 00" W., 280.00 m. to point 40;
thence N. 23º 00" W., 300.00 m. to point 41;
thence N. 39º 00" W., 300.00 m. to point 42;
thence N. 33º 00" W., 220.00 m. to point 43;
thence N. 68º 00" W., 220.00 m. to point 44;
thence N. 35º 00" W., 260.00 m. to point 45;
thence N. 51º 00" W., 280.00 m. to point 46;
thence N. 75º 00" W., 120.00 m. to point 47;
thence N. 36º 00" W., 120.00 m. to point 48;
thence Due North, 250.00 m. to point 49;
thence N. 65º 00" W., 200.00 m. to point 50;
thence N. 45º 00" W., 180.00 m. to point 51;
thence N. 22º 00" E., 220.00 m. to point 52;
thence N. 70º 00" E., 300.00 m. to point 53;
thence N. 20º 00" E., 90.00 m. to point 54;
thence N. 20º 00" W., 380.00 m. to point 55;

thence following Manislag Creek, downstream in a general northwesterly direction about 650.00 m. to point 56;

thence Due North, 250.00 m. to point 57;
thence N. 78º 00" E., 270.00 m. to point 58;
thence N. 14º 00" E., 140.00 m. to point 59;
thence N. 69º 00" W., 280.00 m. to point 60;
thence Due North, 220.00 m. to point 61;
thence N. 45º 00" E., 100.00 m. to point 62;
thence Due North, 320.00 m. to point 63;
thence N. 08º 00" E., 280.00 m. to point 64;
thence N. 47º 00" E., 250.00 m. to point 65;
thence N. 52º 00" E., 330.00 m. to point 66;
thence N. 09º 00" W., 560.00 m. to point 1; point of beginning.

Containing an area of TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED NINETY THREE (2,193) HECTARES, more or less, subject to actual ground survey.1aшphi1

It shall be under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and shall be administered in accordance with Republic Act No. 7586 and its implementing rules and regulations.

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

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of February in the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEXANDER P. AGUIRRE
Acting Executive Secretary


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