Caraga identifies landslide prone sites

BUTUAN CITY – The Caraga Regional Disaster Coordinating Council through the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD), Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Bureau of Mines and Geo-Sciences has identified 186 high landslide prone areas and 234 moderate landslide susceptible sites in the region.

Most of these landslide prone areas are situated mining and logging areas or former logging and mining sites now abandoned, mostly geologists commissioned by the government to conduct a study.

Caraga region has a total land area of 1,884,697 hectares, representing 6.28 percent of the entire total land area of the country and 18.48 percent for Mindanao.

Of the more than one million hectare – land area, forestlands occupy 591,981,08 hectares, agricultural and open spaces occupy 452,616,41 and mineral lands occupy 488,179.61 hectares.   – Ben Serrano