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Drains water from Marilao, Meycauayan and as far as the northwestern side of the La Mesa Dam area. Two other rivers, the Meycauayan River and Polo River that drains Malabon and Valenzuela dump their water here. Another great rivers, the Santa Maria River and Balagtas River meet up with the Marilao River in the Obando area before reaching Manila ...
18 Major River Basins in the Philippines. Rivers in the Philippines are grouped into 18 major river basins. Of these, the Cagayan, the country's longest river, [1] has the largest drainage basin, followed by the Mindanao, the Agusan, and the Pampanga. [2]
Poverty incidence of Meycauayan 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 2006 4.20 2009 4.51 2012 1.71 2015 5.84 2018 5.17 2021 12.62 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The City of Meycauayan is the economic, industrial, commercial, financial and educational center of southern Bulacan. The city is known for its jewelry and leather industries. For years, Meycauayan has been the hub of jewelry production in ...
The Rosgen Stream Classification is a system for natural rivers in which morphological arrangements of stream characteristics are organized into relatively homogeneous stream types. [1] This is a widely used method for classifying streams and rivers based on common patterns of channel morphology. [ 2 ]
Obando is politically subdivided into 11 barangays.Each barangay consists of 7 puroks and some have sitios.There are 8 urban and 3 rural barangays. Barangays Binuangan (ancient "Binwangan" mentioned on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, which is the oldest written document of Philippines inscribed in Indianized script, dating back to 900 CE) and Salambao are located along the Paliwas River ...
In the early times, Punturin was a pure, virgin forest with hills surrounding its vast landscape. Creeks enclosed some of the areas which are directly connected to the Meycauayan River. The name of the place originated from the word “Maraming Puntod” which means an abundance of hills because of its enveloping terrain.
In practice, the River Continuum Concept is used today mainly for environmental assessment of rivers. River studies that assess riverine biological communities and have determined the species composition of an area can then be compared with the ideal species composition from the River Continuum Concept. From there, any variations in species ...
The river obtained its name from tulya or clam due to the abundance of such shellfish in the area. [49] Tullahan is a part of the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando river system of central Luzon . [ 50 ] It is now considered biologically dead and one of the dirtiest river systems in the world.