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hit the area, tectonic movements caused the underground water to be diverted leaving the whitish mounds dry and causing them to turn gray. At present, this mountain at Sitio
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and Santa Cruz River in the Upper Magat River Basin. This once snow-white mountain of
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spanning an area of 6,675.56 hectares (16,495.7 acres) in the municipalities of
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