Baungon, Bukidnon
Baungon is a metropolitan area municipality in the province of Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It has 32 868 inhabitants ( census of 1 May 2010 ) living in 16 barangays. It belongs to the second class of income communities in the Philippines and is described as a partially urbanized.
It is located about 132 km northwest of Malaybalay City. Your neighboring municipalities are Cagayan de Oro in the north, libona in the Northeast, the South and Lantapan Talakag in the West.
The topography of the parish is described as mountainous with large canyon -like valleys, in the southeast are parts of the community in Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park. In it was formerly considered to be extinct Rafflesia Schadenbergiana, the largest flower of the Philippines, rediscovered at the foot of the 2,899 meter high Mount Kita Glad Kalanganan at Sitio, Barangay San Vicente in 2007. The plant was first described by the German damage Mount Cook expedition on Mount Parag in 1882 for the first time. Your local name is colon Busaw, the indigenous tribe of Higaonon lives in this area.
The river flows through Bubunawan the territory of the municipality, he is a tributary of the Cagayan River, between the Barangay Kiliog and the center of the municipality of the 100 meter high waterfalls can be admired, where the hydropower plant is Bubunawan If operated. It produces seven megawatts of electricity. The Minsulahog cave is located in the area of Sitio Massin, Barangay Nicdao, it is drained by the river Tumalong. The cascade of Lungobon waterfalls are located in Sitio Kalanganan in Barangay San Vicente.
Barangays
- Balintad
- Buena Vista
- Danatag
- Kalilangan
- Lacolac
- Langaon
- Liboran
- Lingating
- Mabuhay
- Mabunga
- Nicdao
- Imbatug
- Pualas
- Salimbalan
- San Vicente
- San Miguel
Swell
- X (Northern Mindanao ) Information about Baungon at the Philippine Bureau of Statistics
- Tourism Baungon page on the website of the provincial government
Cities: Malaybalay City | Valencia City
Communities: Baungon | Cabanglasan | Damulog | Dangcagan | Don Carlos | Impasug -ong | Kadingilan | Kalilangan | Kibawe | Kitaotao | Lantapan | libona | Malitbog | Manolo Fortich | Maramag | Pangantucan | Quezon | San Fernando | Sumilao | Talakag
- Location in the Philippines
- Bukidnon