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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]
The Rio Grande de Mindanao, also known as the Mindanao River, is the second-largest river system in the Philippines.Located on the southern island of Mindanao, with a total drainage area of 23,169 km 2 (8,946 sq mi), [2] draining the majority of the central and eastern portion of the island, and a total length of approximately 373 km (232 mi).
The Cagayan River, also known as the Río Grande de Cagayán, is the longest river [3] [1] and the largest river by discharge volume of water in the Philippines. It has a total length of approximately 505 kilometres (314 mi) and a drainage basin covering 27,753 square kilometres (10,715 sq mi). [ 2 ]
The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 9 ] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area.
The Bay River (Filipino: Ilog ng Bay), also known as the Sapang River and the San Nicolas River, is a river system in Bay, Laguna, Philippines.It is one of 21 major tributaries of Laguna de Bay and is the more southern of two small rivers that hem the town proper of Bay.
The Cagayan River, also known as the Cagayan de Oro River, is one of the rivers draining the northern central part of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The river has its headwaters in the Kalatungan Mountain Range and Kitanglad Mountain Range found in the central part of the province of Bukidnon .
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The Davao River is the third largest river by drainage basin in the southern Philippines on the island of Mindanao. It drains an area of over 1,700 square kilometres (660 sq mi) with a total length of 170 kilometres (110 mi).