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Callao Cave, the Glossary

Callao Cave is one of 300 limestone caves located in the Barangays of Magdalo and Quibal in the municipality of Peñablanca, about northeast of Tuguegarao City, the capital of Cagayan province within the Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape in the western foothills of the Northern Sierra Madre Mountains on Luzon island in the Philippines.^[1]

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Caves of the Philippines
Landforms of Cagayan
Paleontology in the Philippines
Sierra Madre (Philippines)
Tourist attractions in Cagayan

Aeta people

Aeta (Ayta), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon island in the Philippines.

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Asia–Pacific

The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.

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Barangay

A barangay (abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as a barrio (Bo.), is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward.

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Cagayan

Cagayan, officially the Province of Cagayan (Probinsia ti Cagayan; Provinsiya na Cagayan; Provinsiya ya Cagayan; Isnag: Provinsia nga Cagayan; Ivatan: Provinsiya nu Cagayan; Lalawigan ng Cagayan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region, covering the northeastern tip of Luzon.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Circadian rhythm

A circadian rhythm, or circadian cycle, is a natural oscillation that repeats roughly every 24 hours.

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Decay chain

In nuclear science, the decay chain refers to a series of radioactive decays of different radioactive decay products as a sequential series of transformations.

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Department of Environment and Natural Resources

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Kagawaran ng Kapaligiran at Likas na Yaman), abbreviated as DENR, is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment in natural resources, specifically forest and grazing lands, mineral resources, including those in reservation and watershed areas, and lands of the public domain, as well as the licensing and regulation of all natural resources as may be provided for by law in order to ensure equitable sharing of the benefits derived therefrom for the welfare of the present and future generations of Filipinos.

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Edible bird's nest

Edible bird's nests, also known as swallow nests (p), are bird nests created from solidified saliva by edible-nest swiftlets, Indian swiftlets and other swiftlets of the genera Aerodramus, Hydrochous, Schoutedenapus and Collocalia, which are harvested for human consumption.

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Flowstone

Flowstones are sheetlike deposits of calcite or other carbonate minerals, formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave.

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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947), often referred to as PGMA or GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician who served as the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.

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Governor-general

Governor-general (plural governors-general), or governor general (plural governors general), is the title of an office-holder.

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Guano

Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.

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Helictite

A helictite is a speleothem (cave-formed mineral) found in a limestone cave that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth.

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Homo floresiensis

Homo floresiensis also known as "Flores Man") is an extinct species of small archaic human that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago.

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Homo luzonensis

Homo luzonensis, also known as Callao Man and locally called "Ubag" after a mythical caveman, is an extinct, possibly pygmy, species of archaic human from the Late Pleistocene of Luzon, the Philippines. Callao Cave and Homo luzonensis are Paleontology in the Philippines.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel and the ankle) and the phalanges (toes).

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National Museum of the Philippines

The National Museum of the Philippines (Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas) is an umbrella government organization that oversees a number of national museums in the Philippines including ethnographic, anthropological, archaeological, and visual arts collections.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Palawan (island)

Palawan is the largest island of the province of Palawan in the Philippines and fifth-largest by area and tenth-most populous island of the country, with a total population of 994,101 as of 2020 census.

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Peñablanca

Peñablanca, officially the Municipality of Peñablanca (Ili nat Peñablanca; Ili ti Peñablanca; Bayan ng Peñablanca), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines.

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Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape

The Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape (formerly known as the Callao Cave National Park) is a protected area and national park in Peñablanca, Cagayan. Callao Cave and Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape are tourist attractions in Cagayan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callao_Cave

Callao Cave, the Glossary

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See also

Caves of the Philippines

Landforms of Cagayan

Paleontology in the Philippines

Sierra Madre (Philippines)

Tourist attractions in Cagayan

References