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Mount Halcon (Filipino: Bundok Halcon) and (Spanish: Monte Halcón) is the highest mountain in Mindoro.According to the new data released by Oriental Mindoro peakvisor as of 2022, it has an elevation of 2,616 metres (8,583 ft) above sea level, higher than the previous estimates of 2,586 m (8,484 ft) although no official survey has yet confirmed this.
Illustration of a member of Los Halcones beating with a bamboo stick a demonstrator fallen on the ground, in the repression of 10 June 1971 in Mexico City.. The Halcones (Spanish: Falcons) were a Mexican paramilitary group created during the tail end of the 1960s and led by Colonel Manuel Díaz Escobar, the deputy director of the General Services of the Federal District Department.
CASA C-202 Halcón, transport aircraft used by the Spanish Air Force; Fábrica de Armas Halcón, Argentinian defense company . Halcón M-1943, submachine gun manufactured by the company
Mindoro Mountain Range is the largest and longest mountain range in the island with a total length of 200 km (120 mi) north-south and 58 km (36 mi) width east–west. Mount Halcon , at 8,484 feet (2,586 meters), is the island’s highest point and is located in Oriental Mindoro.
The design was conceived in Italy by Giovani Angelucci, who later moved to Mexico City to create the first prototype, and the company Horizontec was born in 2014.
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The main character, Sam Gribley, in the children's novel My Side of the Mountain, is a falconer. His trained falcon is named Frightful. William Bayer's novel Peregrine set in the world of falconry, about a rogue peregrine falcon in New York City, won the 1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery.
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the peregrine, [3] is a cosmopolitan bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.A large, crow-sized falcon, it has a blue-grey back, barred white underparts, and a black head.