The country's most extensive river systems are the Pulangi River, which flows into the Mindanao River ( Rio Grande de Mindanao ); the Agusan, in Mindanao which flows north into the Mindanao Sea ; the Cagayan in northern Luzon ; and the Pampanga, which flows south from east Central Luzon into Manila Bay.

These are especially hazardous for northern and eastern Luzon and the Bicol and Eastern Visayas regions, but Manila gets devastated periodically as well.

Still more damaging was the 1990 earthquake that devastated a wide area in Luzon, including Baguio and other northern areas.

The longest river is the Cagayan River or Rio Grande de Cagayan in northern Luzon measuring 354 kilometers.

* c 2500 BC Austronesian peoples from Formosa have colonised Luzon in northern Philippines

The final operation of the division was conducted on 23 June 1945, in conjunction with an advance by U. S. ground forces in northern Luzon.

He claimed to have led a 9, 000-man guerrilla force called Ang Maharlika in northern Luzon during the Second World War, although his account of events was later cast into doubt after a U. S. military investigation found that many of his claims were false or inaccurate.

Aparri was then a Japanese trading post established on 1405 because of its location at the northern tip of Luzon.

Having heard of the rich resources in Luzon, López de Legazpi resolved to dispatch two of his Lieutenant-commanders, Martín de Goiti and Juan de Salcedo, to explore the northern region.

The Spanish met strong resistance from indigenous Muslim clans in the Island of Mindanao and animist tribes of central and northern Luzon ; particularly, the Zambal and Igorot Tribes of Zambales and the Mountainous regions of the Cordilleras.

The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U. S. Armed Forces in the Far East ( USAFFE ) to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines.

Wainwright was then held in prison camps in northern Luzon, Formosa, and Liaoyuan ( then called Xi ' an and was a county within Manchukuo ) until his liberation by the Red Army in August 1945.

On 9 January 1945, I Corps successfully landed on the coast of the Lingayen Gulf in Northern Luzon with the mission of establishing a base for future operations to the north and of denying the enemy northern access to the South China Sea.

This advance covered two hundred miles in little over 100 days ; eliminating effective enemy resistance in northern Luzon.

Two ophiolites of similar age ( 44-48 Ma ) forming the basement of the northern Luzon island arc complex.

In fact, fossil finds in the 20th century have shown that B. mindorensis were once found on the northern Philippine island of Luzon during the Pleistocene Epoch.

On June 29, 1583, Juan de Salcedo traced the northern coastline of Luzon and set foot on the Massi ( Pamplona ), Tular, and Aparri areas.

Traveling to the northern part of the island Luzon will bring you not only to beautiful landscapes with amazing rice terraces.

In the past the Ifugao were feared head-hunters, just as other tribes in the mountainous regions of northern Luzon.

The Isneg, also Isnag or Apayao, live at the northwesterly end of northern Luzon, in the upper half of the Cordillera province of Apayao.

Most of the members of the Church are from the northern part of Luzon, especially in the Ilocos Region.

Most members of the Church are from the northern part Luzon, especially in the Ilocos Region where Obispo Máximo Aglipay was born.

In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.

* predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions ( the Sahel ) and central highlands, including the Fulani (; ) ( 14 %); and

* the " Kirdi ", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands ( 18 %).

Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands of its northern cape.

They established bases on the northern highlands of the Ethiopian Plateau and from there expanded southward.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

The Tigrinya live in southern, central and northern highlands of Eritrea, as well Tigray region in neighbouring Ethiopia.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

The country is divided into four geographic regions: A lowland belt running north to south behind the coast ( Lower Guinea ), which is part of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion ; the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands ( Middle Guinea ); the northern savanna ( Upper Guinea ); and a southeastern rain-forest region ( Forest Guinea ).

The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into four main regions: the desert ( west of the Euphrates ), Upper Mesopotamia ( between the upper Tigris and Euphratesh rivers ), the northern highlands of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Lower Mesopotamia, the alluvial plain extending from around Tikrit to the Persian Gulf.

The Central Valley Region is ringed by steep, rugged highlands, with the country's highest point at the Hkakabo Razi located in the northern end of the country.

Pakistan is divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands ; the Indus River plain, with two major subdivisions corresponding roughly to the provinces of Punjab and Sindh ; and the Balochistan Plateau.

Roughly, then, the northern highlands are north of the imaginary east-west line ; the Balochistan Plateau is to the west of the imaginary southwest line ; and the Indus Plain lies to the east of that line.

The northern highlands include parts of the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram Range, and the Himalayas.

Because of their rugged topography and the rigours of the climate, the northern highlands and the Himalayas to the east have been formidable barriers to movement into Pakistan throughout history.

South of the northern highlands and west of the Indus River plain are the Safed Koh Range along the Afghanistan border and the Sulaiman Range and Kirthar Range, which define the western extent of the province of Sindh and reach almost to the southern coast.

These dams, along with a series of headworks and barrages built by the British and expanded since independence, are of vital importance to the national economy and played an important role in calming the raging floodwaters of 1992, which devastated large areas in the northern highlands and the Punjab plains.

While the Jungle are the " heart " of the indigenous populations of Peru, White people are mostly found in the northern highlands and are mostly of Spanish, Italian, British, French, German, Irish and Croatian descent.

At the end of this period a new landscape emerges: the northern Canaanite cities still existed, more or less intact, and became the Phoenicians ; the highlands behind the coastal plains, previously largely uninhabited, were rapidly filling with villages, largely Canaanite in their basic culture but without the Bronze Age city-state structure ; and along the southern coastal plain there are clear signs that a non-Canaanite people had taken over the former Canaanite cities while adopting almost all aspects of Canaanite culture.

From there, the Tais began to radiate into northern highlands and founded the cities of Luang Prabang and Chiang Saen.

The fertile floodplain and tropical monsoon climate, ideally suited to wet-rice ( tham na ) cultivation, attracted settlers to this central area over to the marginal uplands and the highlands of the northern region or the Khorat Plateau to the northeast.

Seasonal divisions are more clearly marked in the northern half than in the southern half of the country, where, except in some of the highlands, seasonal temperatures vary only a few degrees, usually in the range.

Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east-west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains ( llanos ) in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.

Electricity generated by the Caroní was one of the factors encouraging industrialization of the northern part of the Guiana highlands and the lower Orinoco valley.