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Cordillera Central range, spanning Benguet, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya provinces, Luzon · Philippines
Mount Pulag
Mount Pulag is the highest peak on Luzon and the third-highest in the Philippines, rising to 2,928 m across the boundary of Benguet, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya provinces in the Cordillera Central range. It is best known for its 'sea of clouds' phenomenon, in which pre-dawn temperature inversions blanket the surrounding valleys in cloud below a clear summit grassland, and for exceptionally dark skies that make it one of the Philippines' best stargazing spots. Its cold, subpolar-oceanic summit climate — with frost common and among the lowest recorded temperatures in the country — supports a distinctive dwarf-bamboo and mossy-forest ecosystem that is home to all four of the world's cloud rat species found only on this mountain. The mountain and its grasslands are sacred to the indigenous Ibaloi and Kalanguya peoples, who regard the summit area as a resting place for ancestral souls, and the nearby Kabayan mummy caves are a designated Philippine National Cultural Treasure. It was proclaimed Mount Pulag National Park in 1987 and redesignated a protected landscape in 2022.
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