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The Agno River, also known as the Pangasinan River, is a river on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Traversing the provinces of Benguet , Pangasinan , and Tarlac , it is one of the largest river systems in the country, with a drainage area of 5,952 square kilometres (2,298 sq mi).
The reserve is one of six protected areas located in the 623,318.69-hectare (1,540,254.0-acre) Agno River Basin, the third largest river system in Luzon and the Philippines' fifth largest. [14] [16] It is a sub-catchment of the Agno River which drains into Lingayen Gulf from its headwaters at Mount Data further north.
18 Major River Basins in the Philippines. Rivers in the Philippines are grouped into 18 major river basins. Of these, the Cagayan, the country's longest river, [1] has the largest drainage basin, followed by the Mindanao, the Agusan, and the Pampanga. [2]
The Bued River is a river in the island of Luzon in the Philippines with a total length of 80 km (50 mi). It covers primarily the provinces of Benguet and Pangasinan, and a few parts of La Union. The river originates from the city of Baguio and joins with the Angalacan River in the municipality of Mangaldan, Pangasinan to form the Cayanga River.
The Upper Agno reserve protects the northernmost 45.94 km (28.55 mi) section of the Agno River from the Mount Data National Park in Buguias to Binga Dam in Itogon. [13] It is located to the east and north of the city of Baguio in the southern Cordillera Central mountains and covers the catchment area between the ridges of the Central and Polis ranges.
The San Roque Dam, operated under San Roque Multipurpose Project (SRMP) is a 200-meter-tall, 1.2-kilometre (0.75 mi) long embankment dam on the Agno River.It is the largest dam in the Philippines and sixteenth largest in the world (see List of largest dams in the world).
The United States EPA developed the DSSAM Model to analyze water quality impacts from land use and wastewater management decisions in the Truckee River basin, an area which include the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nevada as well as the Lake Tahoe basin. The model [24] satisfactorily predicted nutrient, sediment and dissolved oxygen parameters in ...
River Basin Management Plans are a requirement of the Water Framework Directive [1] and a means of achieving the protection, improvement and sustainable use of the water environment across Europe. This includes surface freshwaters (including lakes, streams and rivers), groundwater, ecosystems such as some wetlands that depend on groundwater ...