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The Banaue Rice Terraces (Filipino: Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banawe) are terraces that were carved into the mountains of Banaue, Ifugao, in the Philippines, by the ancestors of the Igorot people. The terraces are occasionally called the " Eighth Wonder of the World ".
The Ifugao Rice Terraces reach a higher altitude and were built on steeper slopes than many other terraces. The Ifugao complex of stone or mud walls and the careful carving of the natural contours of hills and mountains combine to make terraced pond fields, coupled with the development of intricate irrigation systems, harvesting water from the ...
Ifugao rice terraces. The time of rice cultivation for the Ifugao people has been the center of a largely contested debate that consequently defines the Ifugao culture, deciding whether the rice terraces are actually over two thousand years old as first accounts argue from Western sources, or were made more recently as argued by local sources ...
Ifugao people in their traditional clothing A traditional Ifugao house with the Batad rice terraces in the background Fabric weaved from Ifugao Based on the 2000 census survey, the Ifugao comprised 67.91% (109,659) of the total provincial population of 161,483.
An Ifugao Terraces Commission was created in 1994 and was superseded by the Banaue Rice Terraces task force, which was closed in 2002. UNESCO has listed the Batad Rice Terraces and Bangaan Rice Terraces as a World Heritage Site since 1995, under the designation, Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras. [23]
Ifugao Rice Terraces: Site Site The highest, best built, and most extensive stone-walled terraces. Covers nearly 400 square kilometers. Banaue English 1940 Ang Labanan sa Mayoyao The Battle of Mayoyao Event Event Last battle between the Japanese and combined Filipino and American forces before Gen. Yamashita's surrender in Kiangan, Ifugao.
Rice terraces in Hungduan. Punnuk is a traditional tug of war from the Philippines practiced by the Tuwali-speaking people who live in Hungduan, Ifugao. [1] The competition, held in Hapao River, is observed after the completion of harvest. [2] It formally puts to a close the farming cycle, and signals the beginning of a new one. [3]
Nagacadan Rice Terraces; The Nagacadan Rice Terraces is a UNESCO Heritage Site and one of the many rice terraces in the province of Ifugao. The rice terraces cluster manifest a distinct feature - the fields are in ascending rows of terraces bisected by a river. Kiangan Shrine