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ITS LAND AND PEOPLE
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As a physical region, the Cordillera
Gran Cordillera Central, to be complete
is a row of great mountain rangesoccupying half of Northern Luzon in the
Philippines. Its rugged mountainous
backbone contains many peaks
exceeding 2,000 meters in height, with
rolling hills and stretches of river valleys
along its flanks.
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Around 230 km long and 120 km
wide, with an irregular shape, themountainous region's estimated
total area is about 17,500 square
km.Thus, the Cordillera is both the
highest and the single largest
mass of mountains in the entire
Philippine archipelago.
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As a recently-defined administrativeregion, the Cordillera is composed of
the six provinces of Apayao, Kalinga,
Abra, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and
Benguet, plus the chartered city of
Baguio. These provinces have a totalland area of almost 18,300 square
km.
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The bulk of the Cordillera
mountain range, as a physicalregion, is covered by this
Cordillera administrative region(CAR). The Cordillera's
foothills extend into a few other
adjacent provinces in the
nearby Ilocos and Cagayan
Valley regions.
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The Cordillera region is very rich
in natural resources. It is
especially famed for its huge golddeposits, pure stands of pine
forest, and rich soils and water
sources that have enabled its
people to sustain agriculture on
mountainside rice terraces.
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Mineral resources; forest
resources; rivers and water
resources; soils and
agriculture
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The Cordillera is more heavily
populated compared to the other
mountainous areas of thePhilippines. Based on the year
2000 census, its six provinces and
one city has a total population of
more than 1,365,000 people.
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As in the rest of the country,
the great majority of theregion's population are
peasants engaged in farming
and other small-scale
production and side
occupations. The next biggestsector is composed of formal
wage workers and informal
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odd-job workers in non-farmoccupations. There is also a
sizeable number of students,
salaried employees, andprofessionals in the few urban
and town centers.
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A big bulk of the Cordillera populationis composed of closely-relatedindigenous peoples. Collectively, our
peoples are popularly known asIgorot. Often we are also grouped intoa number of ethnic or ethno-linguisticidentities, such as Apayao or Isneg,Tinggian, Kalinga, Bontoc,Kankanaey, Ibaloy, Ifugao, and Bago.
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These groupings, while
convenient, do not fully reflect thereal particularities and the extent
of diversity among the region's
peoples. In fact, most of usindigenous peoples identify
ourselves primarily with specific
communties called ili (literally,
home village, hometown, or home
territory).
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Each ili is a self-identifying
community with a specificterritory, which is its ancestral
land. While there are diverse
types, an ili usually consists of
a closely-knit cluster of
villages, or a core village andits outlying hamlets, within a
more or less defined territory.
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Bigger and more diverse
populations are found in
Cordillera's melting pot areas,such as those in urban (or
rapidly urbanizing) Baguio-Benguet and in the foothills
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and valleys adjoining the great
lowlands of Luzon. In theseareas, the original indigenous
communities have given way
to hybrid communities
composed of varied mixtures
of indigenous and migrantpeoples.