MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 274, April 23, 2000 ]

DECLARING AMRO RIVER WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE, SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF CASIGURAN AND DILASAG, PROVINCE OF AURORA AS A PROTECTED AREA PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT 7586 (NIPAS ACT OF 1992) AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS AMRO RIVER PROTECTED LANDSCAPE

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the power vested upon me by law, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, do hereby set aside and declare Amro River Watershed Forest Reserve consisting of a parcel of land situated in the Municipalities of Casiguran and Dilasag, Province of Aurora, as Protected Area under the category of Protected Landscape, subject to private rights and without prejudice to the rights of the indigenous peoples as provided for in R. A. No. 8371, DENR Administrative Order 93-02 and other related rules and regulations, if any, as described in DENR NIPAS Map RO-4-A 15;

Beginning at a point marked “1” on the map which is located at the center of NIA dam with geographic coordinates of 16° 20? 13.86 latitude and 122° 05? 59.49 longitude, thence;

Thence N 79° 02W 1,280.9 m. to corner 2;
Thence S 82° 32W 938.1 m. to corner 3;
Thence S 59° 53W 603.7 m. to corner 4;
Thence S 88° 09W 548.3 m. to corner 5;
Thence S 81° 28W 555.4 m. to corner 6;
Thence S 55° 49W 605.4 m. to corner 7;
Thence S 15° 20W 465.0 m. to corner 8;
Thence S 02° 52W 573.1 m. to corner 9;
Thence S 10° 59E 522.0 m. to corner 10;
Thence S 54° 48W 605.8 m. to corner 11;
Thence S 34° 47W 564.9 m. to corner 12;
Thence S 43° 42W 760.8 m. to corner 13;
Thence Due South 722.94 m. to corner 14;
Thence S 18° 13W 774.0 m. to corner 15;
Thence N 89° 05W 596.2 m. to corner 16;
Thence N 85° 01W 597.3 m. to corner 17;
Thence S 27° 55W 719.2 m. to corner 18;
Thence S 79° 32W 1,087.8 m. to corner 19;
Thence N 84° 01W 597.2 m. to corner 20;
Thence N 76° 02W 597.2 m. to corner 21;
Thence N 52° 04W 694.2 m. to corner 22;
Thence N 60° 04W 694.4 m. to corner 23;
Thence N 03° 08E 936.7 m. to corner 24;
Thence N 13° 36E 939.2 m. to corner 25;
Thence N 03° 21E 742.2 m. to corner 26;
Thence N 06° 18E 692.7 m. to corner 27;
Thence N 05° 02E 693.0 m. to corner 28;
Thence N 54° 17E 613.7 m. to corner 29;
Thence N 51° 19E 1,013.3 m. to corner 30;
Thence N 79° 14E 897.5 m. to corner 31;
Thence S 88° 00E 725.9 m. to corner 32;
Thence N 10° 28E 986.7 m. to corner 33;
Thence N 46° 21E 884.7 m. to corner 34;
Thence N 39° 19E 854.5 m. to corner 35;
Thence N 50° 19E 711.9 m. to corner 36;
Thence N 45° 20E 709.1 m. to corner 37;
Thence N 63° 06E 1,072.6 m. to corner 38;
Thence N 13° 36E 548.8 m. to corner 39;
Thence N 17° 46E 793.8 m. to corner 40;
Thence N 20° 53E 746.0 m. to corner 41;
Thence N 28° 04W 742.2 m. to corner 42;
Thence N 44° 20E 758.4 m. to corner 43;
Thence S 77° 00E 726.2 m. to corner 44;
Thence S 42° 58E 828.3 m. to corner 45;
Thence S 22° 59E 419.9 m. to corner 46;
Thence S 07° 00E 522.1 m. to corner 47;
Thence S 55° 59E 445.2 m. to corner 48;
Thence S 44° 58E 419.7 m. to corner 49;
Thence S 88° 57E 725.9 m. to corner 50;
Thence S 68° 59E 521.7 m. to corner 51;
Thence S 51° 59E 572.9 m. to corner 52;
Thence S 09° 34W 572.4 m. to corner 53;
Thence S 04° 47W 420.1 m. to corner 54;
Thence S 03° 50W 521.9 m. to corner 55;
Thence S 27° 55W 618.1 m. to corner 56;
Thence S 04° 59E 573.2 m. to corner 57;
Thence S 17° 59E 471.0 m. to corner 58;
Thence S 22° 59E 624.2 m. to corner 59;
Thence S 31° 50W 919.0 m. to corner 1;

Containing an area of Six Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-One and 08/100 (6,471.08) Hectares, subject to actual ground survey.1aшphi1

This area shall be under the administrative jurisdiction of the DENR and shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of the NIPAS Act of 1992 and its implementing rules and regulations.

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 23rd day of APRIL, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand.

(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary


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