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	Philippine Herb Index - PhilippineHerbs.com
		The bark is astringent and in decoction is used as a mouthwash and as a gargle for ulcerations of the mouth.
		Labanos is a vegetable cultivated throughout the Philippines and is one of the main crops of Mt. Banahaw.
		Banahaw, being in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines, is rich in Niyog trees.
	www.philippineherbs.com /philippineherbindex.htm (3527 words)

	Mount Banahaw
		Banahaw was also the headquarter of a group of dissidents headed by the famous local hero, Apolinario de la Cruz or Hermano Pule sometime in 1840-43.
		Banahaw is their sacred mountain: She continuously manifests her protective powers through events that appear miraculous and certainly providential, even though these may be dismissed by outsiders as pure coincidence.
		Banahaw is one of the 22 known active volcanoes in the country.
	www.malapascua.de /Volcanoe-Map/Mount_Banahaw/hauptteil_mount_banahaw.html (5968 words)

	Buddhist Banahaw, Way of Design, Book Two -
		Banahaw is a 2,177-meter dormant volcano that looms over the provinces of Quezon and Laguna, 170 kilometers southeast of Manila.
		She is a living witness to the mysteries of Mt. Banahaw and in one with the spirits of the mountain.
		The Altar of Mt. Banahaw by Troy Bernardo
	www.wayofdesign.com /ebook2/banahaw.htm (740 words)

	BK: "Cult's house desecrate Mt. Banahaw", 4/26/00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		For the wildlife in the forest of Banahaw, it is a rich habitat.
		Banahaw, situated between the provinces of Laguna and Quezon, was declared a National Park of Quezon province on July 16, 1987 by virtue of Executive Order 224 under Republic Act 7586.
		She commented that since Banahaw is a protected area, the construction of the building is prohibited.
	www.bwf.org /bk/2k/04/26_01.html (1214 words)

	Sariaya, Quezon, Philippines
		It is bounded on the north by Mt. Banahaw; on the northeast by Tayabas, Quezon; on the south by Tayabas Bay; on the southwest by San
		Mount Banahaw is a 7,382-foot extinct volcano, famous for its mystical attributes.
		Sariaya is situated on a flat land except for a portion on the north occupying a part of the foot of Mt. Banahaw.
	www.sariaya.net /Sariaya_Quezon.html (1461 words)

	Mt. Banahaw needs ... - May 08, 2003
		Banahaw is southeast of Manila within the municipalities of Lucban, Tayabas, Sariaya, Candelaria and Dolores in Quezon and parts of the municipalities of Rizal, Nagcarlan, Liliw and Majayjay and San Pablo City in Laguna province.
		Cecilia Gascon, an environmental scientist from Lucban, Quezon, reported in one of her writings that saving Mt. Banahaw is the present concern of the scientist community.
		Last Holy Week, Mt. Banahaw was hit by four separate forest fires believed caused by burning candles left unattended by pilgrims.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2003/may/08/text/reg_8-1-p.htm (483 words)

	Filipino Spirituality - Mt. Banahaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Banahaw could be on one such energy spot.
		Huerta, a geographer for Estado Geographica, Mt. Banahaw’s crater used to be occupied by a lake until 1730, when an eruption burst open the southern rim and let the water and lava flow out.
		Banahaw is also called the “vulcan de aqua” because of these numerous springs.
	www.urduja.com /spirit/mtbanahaw.htm (823 words)

	abs-cbnNEWS.com - On The Dot
		Mount Banahaw, a 2,177-meter mountain that traverses the provinces of Quezon and Laguna 170 km southeast of Manila, cuts a blue-green silhouette even on a cloudy afternoon.
		Protecting Mount Banahaw is a tough task because of the limited resources and the vast span of the mountain, Bascos said.
		Among the endemic species that benefit from Banahaw are the common dawn fruit bat, the Philippine long-tailed macaque and the Philippine wild pig.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /images/news/microsites/onddot/dotbanahaw.htm (1802 words)

	Banahaw finds rest for 2 years - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Two years after the ban was imposed, the people of Barangay Kinabuhayan, at the bosom of the mountain, are at peace with their mountain again, saying that the mystery of Banahaw is no longer disturbed.
		In an inspection of Mt. Banahaw conducted last week by the DENR, local government officials and Tanggol Kalikasan staff workers, the group found improvements in the closed areas.
		Sally Pangan, protected area supervisor assigned by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to Banahaw, said in her inspection report that the soil erosion between Barangays Sampaloc 1 and Bugon in Sariaya was due to rampant illegal farming in some parts of the mountain.
	news.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=72547 (1445 words)

	banahaw security agency - discoverquezon.com - your on-line guide to the province of quezon
		BANAHAW INVESTIGATION and SECURITY AGENCY (BISA), INC., named after the majestic and most prominent mountain in Quezon province was conceptualized by seven enterprising individuals.
		It was licensed by the Director General of the Philippine National police in accordance with Republic Act.
		We in BANAHAW, always aiming for excellence in the security industry, the General Manager, Directors, Officers and men work as a team to provide quality service to our clients.
	www.discoverquezon.com /banahawsecurity.htm (324 words)

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		In the world of sports, there are competitive sports, with which people are more familiar, but there are also those events with no formal competition but are considered sports in every sense, we refer to mountain climbing and spelunking or caving.
		Banahaw is a place said to be regularly visited by UFOs.
		Maybe next time, the family should go all the way up to the crater of the dormant volcano where instead of a lake like in Mt. Pinatubo, there is a forest inside the mountain with a lot of strange sights to see, according to our guide.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/03/01/TOUR200403013643.html (777 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Things to Do
		Thousands of pilgrims, the number of which may reach to 30,000, come to this area to fulfill their vows or be healed of their afflictions.
		Having the strength of going up higher at Mt. Banahaw, one can see for himself the crowning glory of the holy mountain’s peak called “Durungawan” — a window place on the mountain’s top where one can gaze at the valleys, towns, and city surrounding the sacred mountain.
		It is a perfect vantage point to view Mt. Banahaw, the islands of Marinduque and Mindoro, as well as the major towns and cities of Quezon, like Lucena, Pagbilao, and Tayabas.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=thingstodo&province=23 (4998 words)

	Capability Building and Strength
		The project highlights is the formal turn-over of the project to the PAMB to ensure the continuation of the Capability Building and Strengthening of Protected Area Management Board of Mts.
		Banahaw and San Cristobal with knowledge and skills on environmental law and the development of policies in the local level that enhance resource conservation and ensure effective environmental law enforcement and help maintain and strengthen cooperative action among LGUs, NGOs, POs, LAs and Academic Institutions around Mts.
		Continues follow-up and lobbying for the Banahaw Bill or HB 2773 for the immediate congress approval.
	www.tanggol.org /projects/banahaw.htm (1143 words)

	Subject 2
		The climb is a long strenous hike, but don't get frustrated, I observed this kind of climbers that will boost your morale, a single leg active man, a 70 yrs old woman, a 5 yr young boy at the peak of banahaw (but those are Pilgrims though).
		Banahaw can be scaled any time of the year though it is best advised especially for beginners and the curious to climb it during the summer season, the negative challenge is the lack of water at Kweba ng Diyos.
		During the Holy Week the place is over-populated (counting to ten of thousands), you will encounter bad smells because of human waste, noisy and climb will be frequently stalled.
	www3.sympatico.ca /unimage_96/banahaw_2.html (403 words)

	Balik Kalikasan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		According to the local folk, the flow of water along the Lagnas river usually depends on the volume of the water from this crater of Banahaw.
		A study done by Noel Duhaylungsod, a pedeogeomorphologist, shows that because of the size of Banahaw's crater, the volume of water it is capable of accumulating and releasing is considerable and can bring on a flood similar to that which devastated Ormoc City in Leyte.
		Jun Lontok, coordinator of the Luntiang Alyansa para sa Bundok Banahaw (LABB) is apprehensive that increasing erosion along the peaks of Banahaw may form artificial dams along the waterways which upon the onslaught of La Niña will give way and cause flash floods.
	www.bwf.org /bk/bk1998/98balik12_4.html (744 words)

	Mount Banahaw Mission...
		Twenty eight (28) Volunteer Oficers and EP of Bravo (DART) Company were placed OPCON to the Bantay Banahaw 2001, supervised by the Local Government of the Municipality of Dolores, Province of Quezon.
		The Group were divided into two Teams, Bravo Rescue Team 1 encamped at "Tatlong Puno Makasim" and Bravo Rescue Team 2 encamped at the rainforest of "Kapatagan", with the temperature to drop at 4 degree celsius, the group was further placed OPCON by the Local Government stationed at the foot of the Mountain "Barangay Kinabuhayan".
		One rescue operation have become a daramitc event for the Team, a thorough experience in applying emergency situational skill, while adopting jungle environment requiring movements in total darkness, associated with heavy rain and coldness.
	www3.sympatico.ca /unimage_96/banahaw_1.html (292 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		Banahaw forms part of the Mount Banahaw-San Cristobal National Park.
		During the Quezon Provincial Watershed Summit in April 2003, the deterioration of the environment in Mount Banahaw, especially the volume of trash left by visitors, became a priority concern.
		A scientific study conducted in the area revealed the presence of coliform which contaminate the waters flowing from the mountain.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=35309 (497 words)

	Manila Standard Today -- Banahaw pilgrimage ban saves fragile environment -- april12_2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		A BAN on pilgrims climbing the mystic mountain of Banahaw will remain in place to allow the degraded flora and fauna to recover, the government announced yesterday.
		Before 2003, when the ban was introduced, thousands of worshippers, some believing the mountain to be “God’s abode,” regularly clambered up the 7,080-foot peak during Holy Week to pray, fast, gather medicinal herbs, or simply to experience its natural beauty.
		When the ban was imposed in June 2003 the deterioration of the environment around Mt. Banahaw, especially the amount of litter left by visitors, had become a concern and a study found that the mountain’s waters were contaminated and its Crystalline Falls drying up.
	www.manilastandardtoday.com /?page=news05_april12_2006 (222 words)

	Filipinos seek millennium light on mountain
		Dela Rosa, 60, is one of thousands of pilgrims who have begun flocking to the 2,250-metre (7,380-foot) Mount Banahaw as Asia's only Roman Catholic country prepares to mark Jesus Christ's crucifixion 2,000 years ago.
		Three hours by car from Manila, Banahaw gained its mystic reputation from 19th century tales about "a sacred voice" that spoke to those who had gone there to seek talismans or pursue pagan beliefs which Spanish colonisers had tried to suppress.
		Manila businessman Cecilio Saguisag said he came to Banahaw six years ago after the Virgin Mary told him to bathe at a waterfall on the mountain.
	www.rickross.com /reference/millennium/millennium17.html (662 words)

	SEAAbstr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Once stigmatized as merely "superstitious," popular pilgrimage to Mt. Banahaw in Southern Luzon has in recent decades come to be seen as a privileged site of Filipino religiosity and of nationalism, due to the locality's historical associations with syncretistic sects and anti-colonial outlawry.
		In addition, the paper brings into view a microhistory of interaction between the locality of Mount Banahaw and Filipino public culture, shedding light on the constitution of tradition as a process with material (rather than simply discursive) and dialogical (rather than simply elitist) aspects and implications.
		Her research interests are social anthropology; popular religion; religious change and the politics of religion; comparative colonialism and post-colonial identities; rationality; historical ethnography; history of anthropology; Southeast Asia specialty: the Philippines.
	www.yale.edu /seas/LahiriShtm.htm (169 words)

	Soldiers, mountain watchdogs hunt for 7 Banahaw trespassers - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Lim said most of mountain visitors this year also avoided paying the 20-peso entrance fee to Mt. Banahaw, imposed by the government since 2004 to help shoulder the cost of mountain protection and rehabilitation programs.
		Sally Pangan, DENR protected area supervisor assigned in Mt. Banahaw, said the 20 mountain trespassers arrested on Tuesday were released after being detained for six hours at the Dolores
		The adults were required to execute a promissory note, saying they will not enter the prohibited areas of Mt. Banahaw again.
	news.inq7.net /breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=72505 (403 words)

	Plan for permanent closure of Mt. Banahaw proposed - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		LUCENA CITY -- With the changes taking place in Mount Banahaw after most of its upper areas have been sealed off to pilgrims and mountaineers for the past two years, concerned groups are thinking of closing the mystical mountain to human intrusion forever.
		Perez said the general opinion was reached during a "Solidarity Night" held on April 15 at the Barangay Kinabuhayan Elementary School.
		Dolores environment and natural resources officer Manny Calayag said the local government was inclined to support the plan to permanently close most parts of the mountain to people.
	beta.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=73535 (595 words)

	Almost like Mt. Banahaw - FEATURES (January 31, 1999)
		Most would immediately think about Mt. Banahaw, but few know that there is another mountain closer to Manila which holds powers of healing.
		As in Mt. Banahaw, faith and superstition intertwine in Nelly Deles-Natal's Mystical Cave, located about 16 kilometers from Quezon City, or about half an hour's drive away on a Sunday.
		The Filipino is also very religious, and it is through this combined faith that he visits places such as the Mystical Cave or Mt. Banahaw to heal himself, not only in the physical sense but also psychologically and emotionally.
	www.travelsmart.net /ph/inquirer/issues/jan99/jan30/fea_3.htm (1354 words)

	Mt. Banahaw NP
		The NGO Luntiang Alyansa ng Bundok Banahaw (LABB) or Mt. Banahaw Green Alliance advocates and implements community-based protection and sustainable natural resource management for the Mt. Banahaw mountain complex.
		PAFID assisted LABB and members from the local community in preparing a 3-D model of the area to be used as a tool for increasing local capacity in land use planning and resource protection.
		Model produced by Luntiang Alyansa ng Bundok Banahaw (LABB) or Mt. Banahaw Green Alliance with technical assistance provided by PAFID and financial support by the Foundation For Philippine Environment.
	www.iapad.org /applications/protected_areas/mbnp.htm (156 words)

	New Creature Discovered In Philippines - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		BANAHAW, a mystical and sacred mountain to many, is also home to a small, mouse-like mammal that experts say may not be found anywhere else in the world.
		Initial examination showed it is not related to any other rodent family or species known to inhabit Banahaw, a mountain that straddles the provinces of Laguna and Quezon, or the rest of Luzon.
		The animal, with a body 8 cm long and a 10-cm tail, was described as having the features of a mouse.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=10325 (1222 words)

	Kinabuhayan Cafe Bed & Breakfast, A sanctuary that reflects the mystical beauty of Mt Banahaw
		It is a sanctuary that reflects the mystical beauty and natural powers of Mt. Banahaw.
		At Kinabuhayan Cafe, the slotted bamboo floor allows for Mt. Banahaw mountain air to come into the room.
		The anahaw roof is light and cool, and does not absorb heat like concrete of steel.
	klar.us /kinabuhayan_cafe (162 words)

	Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil Highest in Antioxidants Tests Reveal
		Banahaw Health Products Corporation's Virgin Coconut Oil is marketed in the US, Europe, and Australia under the brand name "Tropical Traditions," and was the first "Virgin Coconut Oil" exported from the Philippines in 2001.
		When they tested the Virgin Coconut Oil of Mt. Banahaw Health Products Corp., the values for phenolic acid were 13.21 to 13.43 micrograms gallic acid per gram of oil.
		By comparison, the three samples Professor Dia and his students produced in the laboratory for their study published in The Philippine Agricultural Scientist, and the six commercial samples they tested for that study all had a range of 6.29 to 8.38 micrograms gallic acid of phenolic content per gram of oil.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-08-2006/0004412055&EDATE= (848 words)

	Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
		This coconut oil is made on Mt. Banahaw from organic coconuts.
		Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw in Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.
		The volcanic soil of Mt. Banahaw makes these organic coconuts some of the most nutritionally rich coconuts in the world!
	www.low-carbbakery.com /orvicooil.html (455 words)

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