Mount Data
{{Short description|Mountain in Cordillera Central, Philippines}}
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| photo = Mount Data view from Tadian highway (Tadian, Mountain Province; 12-03-2022).jpg
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| elevation_m = 2310
| prominence_m = 18
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| parent = Cordillera Central
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| country = Philippines
| state = Cordillera Administrative Region
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| region = {{unbulleted list | Benguet | Mountain Province }}
| region_type = Province
| range = Cordillera Central
| coordinates = {{coord|16|53|0|N|120|50|48|E|type:mountain_region:PH_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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Mount Data is a mountain located in the Cordillera Central mountain range rising to a height of {{convert|2310|m}} in the north of Luzon Island, Philippines.{{Cite web |title=Mount Data |url=https://www.protectedplanet.net/mount-data-national-park |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422202632/https://www.protectedplanet.net/mount-data-national-park |archive-date=April 22, 2018 |access-date=April 22, 2018 |website=Protected Planet}} It is about {{convert|100|km}} north of Baguio on the borders of the provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province along the Halsema Highway.{{Cite book |last=Grele |first=Dominique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHg9IuNyQpwC&pg=PT77 |title=100 Resorts in the Philippines: Places with a Heart |last2=Jouve |first2=Lily Yousry |date=2003 |publisher=Encyclea |isbn=971-91719-7-9 |edition=2nd |location=Mandaluyong City |page=77}}{{Cite web |title=Mt. Province Travel Information |url=http://www.asiatravel.com/philippines/mprovince/mprovinceinfo.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010507075933/http://www.asiatravel.com/philippines/mprovince/mprovinceinfo.html |archive-date=May 7, 2001 |access-date=February 22, 2019 |website=Asia Travel}} The mountain and surrounding area has been declared a national park since 1936. In 1940 the park was expanded to {{convert|5513|ha}}.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8XNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT71 |title=Land and Cultural Survival: The Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Asia |date=2009 |publisher=Asian Development Bank |isbn=978-971-561-801-4 |editor-last=Perera |editor-first=Jayantha |location=Mandaluyong City |page=71}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TY1FDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA720 |title=Shifting Cultivation Policies: Balancing Environmental and Social Sustainability |date=2017 |publisher=CABI |isbn=978-1-78639-179-7 |editor-last=Cairns |editor-first=Malcolm |location=Oxfordshire |page=720}} The slopes of the mountain are covered with pine forests and mossy oak forests.
The national park hosts five major rivers: the Chico, Ahin, Siffu, Abra, and Amburayan rivers. The Agno River also originates from Mount Data and flows through Benguet.{{Cite news |date=July 6, 2015 |title=Cordilleras Lose 500 Hectares of Forest Cover Yearly–Alvarez |work=Business Mirror |url=https://businessmirror.com.ph/2015/07/06/cordilleras-loses-500-hectares-of-forest-cover-yearly-alvarez/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123141801/https://businessmirror.com.ph/2015/07/06/cordilleras-loses-500-hectares-of-forest-cover-yearly-alvarez/ |archive-date=January 23, 2022}} The reserve is also a watershed, which serves towns in Mountain Province, Buenget, and Ifugao.{{Cite news |last=Quitasol |first=Kimberlie |date=June 13, 2016 |title=DENR Rejects Mt. Data Downgrade from Protected Park |work=Inquirer.net |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/790314/denr-rejects-mt-data-downgrade-from-protected-park |url-status=live |access-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202170850/https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/790314/denr-rejects-mt-data-downgrade-from-protected-park |archive-date=December 2, 2020}}
The mountain is the site of the Mount Data Peace Accord of 1986 between the government of the Philippines and the Cordillera People's Liberation Army.{{Cite news |last=De Mesa |first=Karl R. |date=September 20, 2011 |title=Cordillera Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Peace Accord |work=GMA News Online |url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/232874/news/regions/cordillera-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-peace-accord/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123141757/https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/regions/232874/cordillera-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-peace-accord/story/ |archive-date=January 23, 2022}}
Fauna
Mount Data is formerly known for its great biological diversity and is a place that has long been in the attention of biologists. In 1895, the Englishman John Whitehead gathered a vast collection of mammals and birds from the mountain. This mammal collection was then donated to the British Museum. A research by zoologist Oldfield Thomas showed that many unknown species inhabit the area. Half a century later, a large collection of small mammals was collected by an expedition led by the Filipino biologist Dioscoro S. Rabor.{{Cite web |last=Heaney |first=Lawrence R. |last2=Balete |first2=Danilo S. |last3=Sarmiento |first3=Joel |last4=Alviola |first4=Phillip |date=July 4, 2006 |title=Losing Diversity and Courting Disaster: The Mammals of Mt. Data National Park |url=http://www.haribon.org.ph/?q=node%2Fview%2F355 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713031523/http://www.haribon.org.ph/?q=node%2Fview%2F355 |archive-date=July 13, 2007 |access-date=June 13, 2007 |website=Haribon Foundation}} Some of these mammals are Carpomys melanurus (short-footed Luzon tree rat) and Carpomys phaeurus (white-bellied Luzon tree rat). In addition to several rare species of mammals, there are also some bird species like the Collocalia whiteheadi (Whitehead's swiftlet), which was only known then from a specimen that was caught during the expedition of John Whitehead on the mountain.{{Cite book |last=Heaney |first=Lawrence R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JqijCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 |title=The Mammals of Luzon Island: Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna |last2=Balete |first2=Danilo S. |last3=Rickart |first3=Eric A. |date=2016 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-1-4214-1837-7 |edition=illustrated |location=Baltimore, Maryland |pages=5–7 |author-link=Lawrence R. Heaney}}
Carpomys melanurus (greater dwarf cloud rat) was first found on Mount Data in 1896.{{Cite web |last=Field Museum |date=May 2, 2008 |title=Dwarf Cloud Rat Rediscovered After 112 Years |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080501154209.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211171953/http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080501154209.htm |archive-date=February 11, 2021 |access-date=August 2, 2020 |website=ScienceDaily}}
See also
References
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