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Locator map of the Chocolate Hills. Greatest concentration of the hills (dark brown) are in Sagbayan, Batuan, and Carmen while lesser concentration (light brown) are in Bilar, Sierra Bullones, and Valencia. The Chocolate Hills form a rolling terrain of haycock-shaped hills—mounds of a generally conical and almost symmetrical shape. [5]
Chocolate Hills in Carmen, Bohol. Carmen is located in the heart of Bohol Island. The Chocolate Hills, composed of 1,776 cone-shaped karst hills, are a major geographic landmark in Carmen. The origin of its name comes from the fact that the hills turns brown in the hot summer days. Carmen is 59 kilometres (37 mi) from Tagbilaran.
The Chocolate Mountains form the northeast boundary of the Salton Trough extending as a narrow range some 80 miles (130 km) southeast from the Orocopia Mountains to the Colorado River valley. [ 2] The mountains are located about 30 miles (48 km) west of the Chocolate Mountains of Arizona, but the two ranges are not connected.
Many legends also surround the Chocolate Hills of Bohol. One popular tale involves a giant falling in love with a mortal woman, and when she died, his teardrops turned into the hills.
Opened. 2019. (2019) Closed. March 14, 2024. (2024-03-14) The resort which is subject to controversy was Captain's Peak Garden and Resort in the barangay of Libertad Norte in Sagbayan. [8] The property associated with the resort was first listed in Bohol's Register of Deeds on August 28, 1996 – a year prior to the Ramos declaration.
Near Carmen, the Chocolate Hills are more than 1,200 uniformly cone-shaped hills named for the grass growing on the hills that turns brown in the summer, making the landscape look like chocolate mounds. They are hills made of limestone left over from coral reefs during the Ice Age when the island was submerged. The Chocolate Hills are ...
The Chocolate Mountains of Arizona, USA, are located in the southwestern part of the state east of the Trigo Mountains and southwest of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains are located about 30 miles (48 km) east of the Chocolate Mountains of California, but the two ranges are not connected. The range in Arizona lies in a southwest ...
The Rajah Sikatuna Protected Landscape is an important bird area being home to over 120 bird species, many of which are endemic to the Philippines, which include the endangered streaked reed warbler and Philippine cockatoo, as well as the Philippine hawk-eagle, Visayan broadbill, Samar hornbill, Mindanao bleeding-heart, Philippine eagle-owl, Philippine oriole, Philippine frogmouth, azure ...