MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1156, February 3, 1998 ]

DECLARING JICONTOL WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MASLOG, DOLORES AND CAN-AVID, PROVINCE OF EASTERN SAMAR, AS A PROTECTED AREA PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7586 (NIPAS ACT of 1992) AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS JICONTOL NATURAL PARK

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the power vested upon me by law, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby set aside and declare Jicontol Watershed Forest Reserve situated in the Municipalities of Maslog, Dolores and Can-Avid, Province of Eastern Samar, as a Protected Area under the category of Natural Park as described in DENR NIPAS Map No. RO8 - 1:

Beginning at point marked “1” on DENR NIPAS Map No. RO8-1, being S. 68º 35" E., 15,720 m. from BLLM No. 1, Dolores Cadastre to point 1;

Thence S. 70º 16" E., 226.0 m. to point 2;
Thence S. 75º 57" E., 421.2 m. to point 3;
Thence S. 42º 56" E., 308.1 m. to point 4;
Thence S. 54º 07" W., 309.4 m. to point 5;
Thence S. 12º 49" E., 459.4 m. to point 6;
Thence S. 30º 37" W., 833.9 m. to point 7;
Thence S. 12º 06" E., 1,181.5 m. to point 8;
Thence S. 18º 40" W., 586.4 m. to point 9;
Thence S. 22º 20" E., 811.5 m. to point 10;
Thence S. 47º 37" W., 534.4 m. to point 11;
Thence S. 46º 37" W., 541.1 m. to point 12;
Thence S. 46º 37" W., 1,370.2 m. to point 13;
Thence N. 84º 39" W., 864.2 m. to point 14;
Thence N. 70º 45" W., 778.1 m. to point 15;
Thence S. 77º 23" W., 706.7 m. to point 16;
Thence N. 26º 26" W., 845.7 m. to point 17;
Thence N. 45º 04" W., 1,138.3 m. to point 18;
Thence N. 70º 18" W., 758.8 m. to point 19;
Thence N. 57º 16" W., 694.6 m. to point 20;
Thence S. 89º 00" W., 1,179.4 m. to point 21;
Thence S. 59º 09" W., 785.4 m. to point 22;
Thence N. 85º 11" W., 825.4 m. to point 23;
Thence N. 38º 07" W., 601.1 m. to point 24;
Thence N. 86º 15" W., 652.8 m. to point 25;
Thence N. 35º 10" W., 690.1 m. to point 26;
Thence N. 48º 38" W., 913.5 m. to point 27;
Thence N. 30º 32" W., 551.3 m. to point 28;
Thence N. 23º 04" W., 702.9 m. to point 29;
Thence N. 72º 56" E., 1,040.3 m. to point 30;
Thence N. 78º 57" E., 695.5 m. to point 31;
Thence N. 12º 39" W., 433.6 m. to point 32;
Thence N. 30º 57" W., 760.6 m. to point 33;
Thence N. 07º 29" W., 710.8 m. to point 34;
Thence N. 50º 53" E., 1,229.7 m. to point 35;
Thence N. 12º 07" E., 530.3 m. to point 36;
Thence S. 62º 47" E., 1,172.9 m. to point 37;
Thence N. 79º 28" E., 1,073.1 m. to point 38;
Thence N. 38º 53" E., 1,158.3 m. to point 39;
Thence N. 58º 56" E., 1,797.1 m. to point 40;
Thence S. 68º 50" E., 613.2 m. to point 41;
Thence N. 65º 25" E., 433.6 m. to point 42;
Thence S. 69º 19" E., 715.7 m. to point 43;
Thence S. 66º 27" E., 918.0 m. to point 44;
Thence N. 85º 59" E., 887.3 m. to point 45;
Thence S. 43º 56" E., 716.4 m. to point 46;
Thence S. 74º 60" E., 513.4 m. to point 47;
Thence S. 58º 45" E., 1,012.1 m. to point 48;
Thence S. 68º 22" E., 408.7 m. to point 49;
Thence S. 45º 07" W., 376.8 m. to point 50;
Thence S. 56º 07" W., 483.5 m. to point 51;
Thence S. 55º 07" W., 290.1 m. to point 1;

Containing an area of SIX THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE (6,483) 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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