Proclamation No. 186, s. 2002

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES PROCLAMATION NO. 186

DECLARING THE MOUNTAIN RANGES OF NORTHWEST PANAY PENINSULA SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF NABAS, MALAY, BURUANGA, PROVINCE OF AKLAN AND MUNICIPALITIES OF LIBERTAD AND PANDAN IN THE PROVINCE OF ANTIQUE AS PROTECTED AREA PURSUANT TO R.A. 7586 (NIPAS ACT OF 1992) AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE NORTHWEST PANAY PENINSULA NATURAL PARK

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and pursuant to the powers vested upon me by law, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Philippines, do hereby set aside and declare the Mountain Ranges of Northwest Panay Peninsula located in the Municipalities of Nabas, Malay and Buruanga, Province of Aklan and the Municipalities of Libertad and Pandan in the Province of Antique as Protected Area under the category of Natural Park, subject to private rights and without prejudice to the.rights of the Indigenous People as provided for in R.A. 8371, DENR Administrative Order 93-02, and other related rules and regulations, if any there be, as described in DENR NIPAS Map No. R-6-05.

Technical Description

The Natural Park begins at BLLM No. 7 PSC-08, Libertad Antique to corner No. 1, is North $2°37’E, 3,326.4 meters.

Thence 874° 34°W 1,389.91 m. tocorner 2; Thence N74° 23’°W 1,671.82 m _ tocorner 3; Thence S64° 12°W 2,112.89m tocorner 4; Thence N54° 59°W 1,306.72 m _tocorner 5; Thence N47° 07’°W 1,572.37 m to corner 6; Thence N36° 09’°W 1,331.49m _ tocorner 7; Thence N43° 16’E 1,743.57m _tocorner 8; Thence N40° 18’E 1,049.46 m ___ tocorner 9; Thence N11° 45°W 766.12m to corner 10; Thence NO7° 26’E 1,735.65 m to corner 11; Thence N30° 53’W 669.43 m to corner 12; Thence N31° 50’E 1,188.35 m to corner 13; Thence N87° 15’E 2,298.33 m _ to corner 14;

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Thence N15° 19°E 1,171.69m to corner 15;

Thence $84° OVE 2,398.01 m to corner 16; Thence N87° 54E 805.44m ___ tocorner 17; Thence S48° 23’E 2,356.49 m _ to corner 18; Thence $50° 18’E 1,269.20 m _ _ to corner 19; Thence S58° 49°E 1,424.64m to corner 20; Thence S78° 0S’E 2,152.13 m to corner 21; Thence S51° 59°E 1,238.41 m __ to corner 22; Thence $30° 12’E 2,266.24m ‘to corner 23; Thence S0S5° 39°E 1,685.54m to corner 24; Thence $22° 26°W 1,764.83 m_ _ to corner 25; Thence $53° 35°W 1,081.73 m_ _ to corner 26; Thence N86° 42’W 533.23 m _ to corner 27; Thence $10° 33°W 1,117.38m to corner 28; Thence S79° 32°W 962.01m _ to corner 29; Thence N57° 20°W 1,807.07 m _ to corner 30; Thence N64° 49°W 1,535.10m to corner 31; Thence N74° 48’°W 2,453.48 m tocorner 1, the point of

Beginning containing an approximate area of Twelve Thousand and Nine and 29/100 (12,009.29) hectares, more or less, subject to the actual ground survey.

The Northwest Panay Peninsula Natural Park shall be under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and shall be managed in accordance with the provisions of the NIPAS Act of 1992.

IN WITNESS WHEREOPF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of April , in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and two.

ALBERTO G. ROMULO uaa

Executive Secretary LIBRARY BCODE002052

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