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Pantabangan Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Pampanga River located in Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija province of the Philippines. The multi-purpose dam provides water for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation while its reservoir, Pantabangan Lake, affords flood control. The reservoir is considered one of the largest in Southeast ...
The multi-purpose dam is situated at the confluence of Pampanga River's two headwaters, namely the Pantabangan and Carranglan Rivers in the municipality of Pantabangan. [1] It stretches above the dam site for 21 kilometres (13 mi) to where Carranglan River originates in the Caraballo on the north, and for 18 kilometres (11 mi) to where ...
Poverty incidence of Pantabangan 10 20 30 40 2006 34.10 2009 21.84 2012 19.48 2015 24.92 2018 16.01 2021 19.66 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Hotels, restaurants, and leisure Pantabangan has since saw a rise in numerous accommodation and lodging establishments such as hotels, motels, inns, and resorts near the Pantabangan Lake, making it a popular ecotourism site. Some notable places ...
Pantabangan Dam: Built as a dam for Pampanga River for electricity and irrigation. Pantabangan: Filipino September 10, 1974 Penyaranda: Became a separate municipality, 1851. Formerly part of Gapáng as Masipong. Peñaranda: Filipino 1940 Pook Na Kinamatayan ni Doña Aurora Aragon Quezon: Death place of Aurora Aragon Quezon Site Site
At the higher sections of the basin, dams — especially the Pantabangan Dam in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija — provide irrigation for farms in the province of Nueva Ecija. At the lower sections of the basin, where the Pampanga delta lies, the Pampanga River system divides into small branches, crisscrossed with fishponds to form a network of ...
Joanna Cindy Miranda — A Filipina model and host from Rizal, Nueva Ecija, who won the Binibining Pilipinas-Tourism 2013 crown and will represent the country in Miss Tourism Queen International in Lhasa, Tibet in the first week of September 2013. Paolo Ballesteros — (born November 29, 1982, in Cabanatuan, is a Filipino actor, TV host and ...
Protected areas in the Philippines encompasses 4,620,000 hectares (11,400,000 acres) of terrestrial areas and 3,140,000 hectares (7,800,000 acres) of marine areas. [1] They are managed according to the following classifications described in Section 4 of the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 (NIPAS Act).
The Angat Dam and Reservoir is also a major source of hydroelectricity for Metro Manila and surrounding provinces, contributing some 200 megawatts to the Luzon grid. [4] The watershed is a popular birdwatching site and is a biodiversity hotspot containing most of the remaining closed-canopy forests in Central Luzon. [2]