PROCLAMATION NO. 269

DECLARING THE BAGANGA WATERSHED RESERVATION SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAGANGA, PROVINCE OF ORIENTAL, ISLAND OF MINDANAO AS A PROTECTED AREA PURSUANT TO R.A. 7586 (NIPAS ACT OF 1992), WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN AS "BAGANGA PROTECTED LANDSCAPE"

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the powers vested upon me by law, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the , do hereby set aside and declare Baganga Watershed Reservation situated in the Municipality of Baganga, Province of , Island of Mindanao as Protected Area under the category of Protected Landscape with a physical peripheral buffer along its boundary, subject to private rights, if any, as described in DENR NIPAS MAP No. RO-11-05.

Beginning at a point marked "1" on the map and on the ground being N 06º20'W, 5,259.40 meters from BLLM No. 1, PLS-1002: ThenceN 64º18'E 248.2 meters to corner 2; ThenceN 64º18'E 249.4 meters to corner 3; ThenceN 64º18'E 243.3 meters to corner 4; ThenceN 85º23'E 300.6 meters to corner 5; ThenceN 85º23'E 162.3 meters to corner 6; ThenceN 00º12'W 273.1 meters to corner 7; ThenceN 00º12'W 272.6 meters to corner 8; ThenceN 00º12'W 274.7 meters to corner 9; ThenceN 00º12'W 270.9 meters to corner 10; ThenceS 40º40'E 293.6 meters to corner 11; ThenceS 12º22'E 458.2 meters to corner 12; ThenceS 11º39'E 48.0 meters to corner 13; ThenceS 16º16'W 214.6 meters to corner 14; ThenceS 00º07'E 85.3 meters to corner 15; ThenceS 45º01'E 104.1 meters to corner 16;

729 ThenceS 80º04'E 119.7 meters to corner 17; ThenceS 00º22'W 331.3 meters to corner 18; ThenceS 4º59'W 110.2 meters to corner 19; ThenceN 80º34'W 163.1 meters to corner 20; ThenceS 9º11'E 117.4 meters to corner 21; ThenceS 32º16'W 149.7 meters to corner 22; ThenceS 30º24'W 156.5 meters to corner 23; ThenceN 57º17'W 81.4 meters to corner 24; ThenceS 54º33'W 123.4 meters to corner 25; ThenceS 73º48'W 199.7 meters to corner 26; ThenceS 24º37'E 91.2 meters to corner 27; ThenceS 73º22'W 102.9 meters to corner 28; ThenceS 38º05'W 68.4 meters to corner 29; ThenceN 82º31'W 157.6 meters to corner 30; ThenceN 11º55'E 239.3 meters to corner 31; ThenceN 43º18'E 140.7 meters to corner 32; ThenceS 87º20'W 137.5 meters to corner 33; ThenceN 77º18'W 138.8 meters to corner 34; ThenceN 05º40'W 157.2 meters to corner 35; ThenceN 89º20'W 270.8 meters to corner 36; ThenceN 53º50'W 260.2 meters to point 1 containing an area of One Hundred Fourteen and 878/100 (114.878) Hectares, more or less, subject to actual ground survey.

The subject area shall remain under the administrative jurisdiction of the DENR and shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of NIPAS Act of 1992 rules and regulations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of April, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand.

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