| Description |
The mountain terraces in the cordilleras of northern Luzon, Philippines were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list in 1995. The Ifugao terraces are not actually carved out of the mountain side, rather, these are stone or earth walls which have been developed slowly by geological means; as the space between the wall and the mountain side fills up with different layers of rubble, grades of soil and water impervious clay beneath layers of organic soil to present water loss in the paddy fields thus created. |
