Mount Data is a mountain located in the Cordillera Central mountain range rising to a height of in the north of

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. It is about north of

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on the borders of the provinces of

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and

Mountain Province Mountain Province (; ; ; ; ; ) is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc while Bauko is the largest municipality. Mountain Province was formerly referred to as Mountain ...

along the

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. The mountain and surrounding area has been declared a

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since 1936. In 1940 the park was expanded to . 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. The reserve is also a watershed, which serves towns in Mountain Province, Buenget, and

Ifugao Ifugao, officially the Province of Ifugao (; ), is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Lagawe and it borders Benguet to the west, Mountain Province to the north, Isabela t ...

. 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.

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

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. A research by zoologist

Oldfield Thomas Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist. Career Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for ...

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. 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. ''Carpomys melanurus'' (greater dwarf cloud rat) was first found on Mount Data in 1896.

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