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The Chocolate Hills form a rolling terrain of haycock-shaped hills—mounds of a generally conical and almost symmetrical shape. [5] With an estimated 1,268 to 1,776 individual mounds, these cone-shaped or dome-shaped hills are actually made of grass-covered limestone .
The hills in Sagbayan. The Chocolate Hills are 1,776 near-identical conical hills or kegelkarsts [3] which straddles across multiple municipalities in the island province of Bohol; Batuan, Bilar, Carmen, Sagbayan, Sierra Bullones and Valencia. [4] It is a major tourist attraction of the province. The hills have multiple designations.
Near Carmen, the Chocolate Hills are more than 1,200 uniformly cone-shaped hills named for the grass growing on the hills that turns brown in the summer, making the landscape look like chocolate mounds. They are hills made of limestone left over from coral reefs during the Ice Age when the island was submerged. The Chocolate Hills are ...
This unusual formation of hills is found on an island in the Philippines. It's called the Chocolate Hills of Bohol because during the dry season, the grass turns brown and looks like mounds of ...
This strange hill formation is called ‘ the Chocolate Hills of Bohol’ because they look like little dots of chocolate.
Conical hills may form in tropical karst regions, such terrain being known as kegelkarst. A typical example of non-volcanic conical hills are the Chocolate Hills in Bohol on the Philippines . Erosion-formed cones
In 2024, a Facebook post from Captain's Peak Resort went viral for its modification and seeming destruction of parts of the protected area of the Chocolate Hills National park, [16] prompting increased public scrutiny. Investigations revealed more resorts of a similar resorts.
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