BANAUE RICE TERRACES

Submitted by evonaf on Thu, 2007-04-12 09:25.
BANAUE RICE TERRACES

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Banaue Rice Terraces

 

Dubbed as the "Eight Wonder of the World," the Banaue Rice Terraces start from the base of the mountain range and reach up to several thousand feet high. It is said that their length, put end to end, would encircle half of the globe. Made 2,000 years ago, these rice terraces manifest the engineering skill and ingenuity of the sturdy Ifugaos. Streams and springs found in the mountains were tapped and channeled into irrigation canals that run downhill through the rice terraces.
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