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The Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines were created over 2000 years ago by the Ifugao people and are still used today, demonstrating remarkable ancient engineering through a complex irrigation system of stone terraces that provide fertile land for food production.

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Molas

The Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines were created over 2000 years ago by the Ifugao people and are still used today, demonstrating remarkable ancient engineering through a complex irrigation system of stone terraces that provide fertile land for food production.

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ACHIEVEMENT OF PHILIPPINES DURING ANCIENT TIMES

Banaue rice terraces, system of irrigated rice terraces in the mountains of north-central Luzon,
Philippines, that were created more than 2,000 years ago by the Ifugao people. Although located
in several villages, they are collectively known as the Banaue rice terraces. In 1995 various
sections of the terraces were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, described as “a living
cultural landscape of unparalleled beauty.”

Many ancient wonders aren’t great monumental buildings at all, but remarkable engineering
feats designed to provide food or safety for people. These rice terraces are 2000 years old, and
located 1500 ft above sea level. The terraces offered the ancient people of the area a vast tract of
land for food production, and they designed a complex irrigation system to keep the fields fertile.
Many of the rice fields are still in use by local people today. The structure's original builders use
stone and mud walls to carefully carved and construct terraces that could hold flooded and pond
fields for the cultivation of rice. They also established a system to water these plots by harvesting
water from mountaintop forests. This rice terraces have big impact to the ancient people
especially in igorot group to grow rice.The Ifugao peoples also retain water by constructing walls
and dikes made of compact soils and stones, conserving soil from erosion and creating wet fields
for intensive rice cultivation. Furthermore, these communities have created many rice varieties to
meet the different water regimes and temperature conditions of the mountainous landscapes.
Typically, each family plants more than three rice varieties from which they harvest the seeds for
the next season. While the rice terraces were important to the Ifugao economy, they also served
a cultural function, requiring intensive cooperation among the people

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