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The Sierra Madre is the longest mountain range in the Philippines. Spanning over 540 kilometers (340 mi), it runs from the province of Cagayan down to the province of Quezon in a north-south direction on the eastern portion of Luzon , the largest island of the archipelago.
This coincided with "Save Sierra Madre Day", initially started following the onslaught of Typhoon Ketsana in 2009. The mountain range, which serves as a natural barrier protecting much of eastern Luzon from tropical cyclones, has been the subject of destructive human activity , most notably the recent construction of the Kaliwa Dam in the ...
Evacuation orders were in place, as of 8:30 a.m. PT on Wednesday, for La Canada Flintridge, Altadena, Sierra Madre and Cloverleaf Canyon, according to Cal Fire. Evacuation warnings were in place ...
The Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park is the largest protected area of the Philippines covering the northern range of the Sierra Madre mountains of eastern Luzon. [1] The park is located in the eastern part of the province of Isabela in Cagayan Valley (Region II) containing a total of 359,486 hectares (888,310 acres). [2]
The Spanish name sierra madre means "mother mountain range" in English, and occidental means "western", these thus being the "Western mother mountain range". [1] To the east, from the Spanish oriental meaning "eastern" in English, the Sierra Madre Oriental range or "Eastern mother mountain range" runs generally parallel to the Sierra Madre Occidental along eastern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
Typhoon Man-yi, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pepito, was a powerful and long-tracked tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines in early November 2024. . Closely following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoons Kong-rey, Yinxing, Toraji and Usagi, Man-yi became the sixth consecutive tropical system to affect the country in less than a
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The Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) is the second-largest eagle in the world found primarily in the Sierra Madre mountain range of Luzon. [5] [6] Primary lowland rainforests of the Philippines have been heavily deforested, and the Philippine eagle needs this area to breed, as well as nesting in large trees and hunting within the trees.