Aliwagwag Protected Landscape

Aliwagwag Protected Landscape
Aliwagwag Falls
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Aliwagwag Falls as seen from the road (2018)
Location in the Philippines
Location	Davao de Oro and Davao Oriental, Philippines
Nearest city	Bislig
Coordinates	7°44′35″N 126°17′56″E / 7.74306°N 126.29889°E / 7.74306; 126.29889
Area	10,491.33 hectares (25,924.6 acres)
Established	April 5, 2011
Governing body	Department of Environment and Natural Resources

The Aliwagwag Protected Landscape is a protected area that preserves a major drainage catchment in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao in the Davao Region. It contains the headwaters of the Cateel River in the southern Diuata Mountain Range which provides the water source and irrigation for surrounding rice fields and communities in Davao de Oro and Davao Oriental provinces. It was named after the remote rural village in the municipality of Cateel where Aliwagwag Falls, the country's highest waterfall, is located.^[1]

The protected landscape is part of the Philippines' National Integrated Protected Areas System and was established in 2011 through Proclamation No. 139 issued by President Benigno Aquino III.^[2] It was initially a component of the 1,927,400-hectare (4,763,000-acre) Agusan–Davao–Surigao Forest Reserve declared in 1931 through Proclamation No. 369 by Governor-General Dwight F. Davis which underwent several amendments over the years to open up a few areas in the mineral rich watershed to mining.^[3][4]