The Dinadiawan River Protected Landscape is a

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

covering the stretch of the Dinadiawan River from its headwaters in the Sierra Madre mountain range to its mouth on the

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coast of the village of Dinadiawan in

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province,

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. The park covers an area of and includes its surrounding forested mountains, waterfalls and springs in

Dipaculao Dipaculao , officially the Municipality of Dipaculao (; ), is a municipality in the province of Aurora, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 33,131 people. The municipality is home to the Dinadiawan River Protected ...

municipality. It is composed of of forested area, of grassland, of forested shrubland, of cultivated area, and of the Dinadiawan River. Its forest cover consists primarily of

dipterocarp Dipterocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India, Indochina, Indo ...

trees like ''

tanguile The following table associates tree species, wood name and wood colour. The Dipterocarp timber classification system was developed by Colin Fraser Symington (1905-1943), a forester at the Malayan Forestry Service, and H. E. Desch, who researched c ...

'', '' mayapis'', white lauan, red lauan and ''

bagtikan The following table associates tree species, wood name and wood colour. The Dipterocarp timber classification system was developed by Colin Fraser Symington Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * Colin (film), ''Colin'' (film ...

''. It serves as a habitat of wild fauna such as the

Philippine deer The Philippine deer (''Rusa marianna''), also known as the Philippine sambar or Philippine brown deer, is a vulnerable deer species endemic to the Philippines. It was first described from introduced populations in the Mariana Islands, hence t ...

Philippine long-tailed macaque The Philippine long-tailed macaque (''Macaca fascicularis philippensis'') is a subspecies of the crab-eating macaque, known in various Philippine languages as ''matching''/''matsing'' or the more general term ''unggoy'' ("monkey"). It is endemic ...

Philippine warty pig The Philippine warty pig (''Sus philippensis'') is one of four known species in the pig genus ('' Sus'') endemic to the Philippines. They have tufts of hair on the top of their head and on the lower sides of their jaws, as well as four warts on t ...

, spotted wood kingfisher and

pygmy swiftlet The pygmy swiftlet (''Collocalia troglodytes'') is a species of Swift (bird), swift in the family Apodidae. It is Endemism, endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. At under , it is the world's smallest ...

. First established as a watershed forest reserve with an area of through Proclamation No. 918 issued by President Corazón Aquino in 1992, the protected area is now a declared Protected Landscape under the National Integrated Protected Areas System with the issuance of Proclamation No. 278 in 2000 by President

Joseph Estrada Joseph Ejercito Estrada (; born Jose Marcelo Ejercito; April 19, 1937), also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor, who served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 until his resignation in 2001. ...

. The park is one of five protected areas in the province of Aurora.

References

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