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Mount Bintuod

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Location
  
Luzon

Region
  
Cagayan Valley

Elevation
  
1,935 m

Province
  
Nueva Vizcaya

Parent range
  
Sierra Madre

Country
  
Philippines

First ascent
  
Unknown

Mountain range
  
Sierra Madre

Municipality
  
Alfonso Castañeda

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Similar
  
Mount Guiwan, Mount Santo Tomas, Mount Tapulao, Mount Amorong, Mount Binuluan

Mount Bintuod is a mountain in the Sierra Madre range in the municipality of Alfonso Castañeda in Nueva Vizcaya province. It is probably the highest peak in the Philippines longest mountain range with a first GPS-based measurement of 1,915 meters above sea level, from an expedition in April 2012. There are no records of the first ascent, but local tribe people have long established paths.

Map of Mount Bintuod, Dupax Del Sur, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines

In some maps this peak is misidentified as Mount Dalimonoc, an actually lower peak adjoining Bintuod to the west.

However, locals report hunting to have reduced wildlife in recent years, thus game is rare now.

The forested peak can be reached in a two days one night return hike from Barangay Lipuga, Alfonso Castañeda, Nueva Vizcaya. This rural area of the Philippines is traditional land of the Bugkalot or Ilongot tribe and was only opened to a road via Carranglan, Nueva Ecija in 1997 when a hydropower dam was constructed in the Casignan River of the same valley.

References

Mount Bintuod Wikipedia