On Top of Mt. Pulog

Benguet is a plateau, a mass of elevated land. She has great special agricultural potentiality on account of this fact. All the rivers of Benguet drain into te China Sea, whereas the drainage of ther Mountain Provinces is mostly to the Pacific Ocean.

It is as interesting fact also that Benguet is dotted with hot springs at least one of which os found in almost every municipality. The Halsema Mountain Road, 95 kilometers of which are in Benguet, traverses the province from south to north and is almost entirely asphalted. The highest point of Philippine Highways (7,400 feet above sea level) is on Mount Paoay, at Km. 50 of the Halsema Mountain Road.

Mountains rise from the table land itself. The second highest mountain in the Philippines, Mount Pulog, 75 feet lower than Mount Apo, is in Benguet. Other high mountains are Tabayok, Panutoan, Osdung, Paoay, Pack, Singakalsa, Sto. Tomas, Data amd Ugu, rising thousands of feet above sea level. The area is cut up by numerous valleys, among may be mentioned La Trinidad, Sablan Galiano, Bued, Agno, Amburayan, Tuboy and upper Abra, after whom are named the corresponding rivers draining this systems.

Mummies of Kabayan, these are the famous and intriguing treasures of the municipality of Kabayan. Preserved through the ages by a process known only to the elders, the mummies are indications of the respect the tribe had for their dead. These mummies are usually housed in almost inaccessible caves in high cliffs but several have been brough down to the municipal hall for exhibition.

Mt. Pulog, located within Kabayan's boundaries. Pulog means "bald" in the Ibaloi dialect towers 9,925.85 feet above sea level making it the second highest mountain peak in the country, subservient to Mindanao's pride, Mt. Apo.

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