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Mining. Not in My Backyard

March 30, 2009

posted March 20, 2009 | daplinsabaybayon.blogspot.com 

History
Located in the Northeastern part of Mindanao, Cantilan is the second town from the border of the two Surigao provinces and is about 65 kilometers north of Tandag City, the capital of Surigao del Sur. It faces Lanuza Bay in the Pacific Ocean and is backed westward by the ore and used to be timber rich Diwata Mountains. Its boundaries are Carrascal to the North, Madrid to the South and Santiago, Agusan del Norte to the west. It has a total land area of 24,010 hectares, 71% of which is forested land and 29% classified as alienable and disposable land (A &D) of which 5,264 hectares is devoted to agriculture. It is a 4th class community and derives income mostly from rice farming, copra production and fishing from its 44 hectares of municipal water. Cantilan, Madrid and Carrascal as a group is identified as the food basket of the province. Cantilan and its neighboring towns is also the old home of Kantilan, the Philippine eagle, which was found injured in a falcata plantation in Cabangahan. READ FULL ARTICLE>>>


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