MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ Proclamation No. 158, August 10, 1999 ]
DECLARING THE DUMANQUILAS BAY SITUATED IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF MALANGAS, BUUG, KUMALARANG, LAPUYAN, MARGOSATUBIG, AND VENCENSO SAGUN, PROVINCE OF ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR AS PROTECTED AREA AND ITS PERIPHERAL AREAS AS BUFFER ZONE PURSUANT TO REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7586 (NIPAS ACT OF 1992), AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS DUMANQUILAS BAY PROTECTED LANDSCAPE AND SEASCAPE
Upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, and pursuant to the powers vested upon me by law, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Philippines, do hereby set aside and declare Dumanquilas Bay situated in the Municipalities of Malangas, Buug, Kumalarang, Lapuyan, Margosatubig and Vencenso Sagun, Province of Zamboanga del Sur as Protected Area under the category of Protected Landscape and Seascape and its peripheral areas as Buffer Zone, subject to private rights and without prejudice to the rights of the indigenous peoples as provided for in R.A. No. 8371, DENR Administrative Order No. 93-02 and other related rules and regulations, if any there be, as described in the DENR NIPAS Map No. R9-10.
The Dumanquilas Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape beginning at a point marked “1 on the map being S 36° 46" W at 21,201.14 meters from BLLM No. “1” – PLS-734;
| Thence |
following the Shoreline Bay South East, West, North East, West Direction to the Mouth of Shoreline Bay and Creek near Mangrove Area |
19,105 meters |
to point 2; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay South Easterly Direction to the Junction of Creek near Mangrove Area |
1,460 meters |
to point 3; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay South Easterly Direction to the Junction of Creek near Mangrove Area |
1,460 meters |
to point 3; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay South Easterly Direction to the Mouth of Creek near the edge of Mangrove and Upland |
948 meters |
to point 4; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay South East and Westly Direction to Junction of Creek |
4,220 meters |
to point 5; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay South West and Northwest Direction to the Mouth of Margosatubig River |
1,730 meters |
to point 6; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northwest and Southwest Direction |
3,190 meters |
to point 7; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northwest and East Direction of Igat Island |
7,750 meters |
to point 8; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay of Igat Island Southeast, Southwest |
13,650 meters |
to point 9; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay of Southwest to Mouth of Creek |
2,490 meters |
to point 10; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Southeast to the Junction of Creek |
2,760 meters |
to point 11; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Southwest |
6,930 meters |
to point 12; |
| Thence |
North 69° 37" West |
19,066.20 meters |
to point 13; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northeast and Southeast |
13,610 meters |
to point 14; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Southeast and North Easterly Direction near the Mangrove area |
10,000 meters |
to point 15; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northeast and Southeast near the Mangrove area |
2,800 meters |
to point 16; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northeast West and Southeast Direction to Mouth of Creek |
6,950 meters |
to point 17; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northeast, West Direction to Mouth of Creek |
735 meters |
to point 18; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Northeast and Southeast Direction to Mouth of Creek |
2,850 meters |
to point 19; |
| Thence |
South 80° 00" East |
3,406 meters |
to point 20; |
| Thence |
following Shoreline Bay Southeast West Direction to the Mouth of the Muduing River and Creek |
2,670 meters |
to point 1; |
point of beginning containing an area of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY EIGHT (25,948.00) HECTARES, subject to actual ground survey.
The Buffer Zone begins at a point marked “1” on the map which is identical to corner No. 13 of Dumanquilas Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape:
| Thence |
S 69° 13E |
19,066.20 meters |
to corner 2; |
| Thence |
S 77° 23E |
742.00 meters |
to corner 3; |
| Thence |
S 06° 17E |
1,058.20 meters |
to corner 4; |
| Thence |
N 77° 29W |
6,866.00 meters |
to corner 5; |
| Thence |
N 73° 29W |
4,756.70 meters |
to corner 6; |
| Thence |
N 74° 40W |
4,400.00 meters |
to corner 7; |
| Thence |
N 52° 32W |
4,427.70 meters |
to corner 8; |
| Thence |
N 15° 31E |
1,321.70 meters |
to corner 1; |
the point of beginning. Containing an approximate area of THREE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FOURTEEN AND 98/100 (3,714.98) HECTARES, subject to actual ground survey.1aшphi1
It shall be under the administrative jurisdiction of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of Republic Act No. 7586, otherwise known as the NIPAS Act of 1992, and its implementing rules and regulations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 10th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety nine.
(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA
By the President:
(Sgd.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary
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