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1776 pyramids in Philippines
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The Chocolate Hills are an unusual geological formation in Bohol,Philippines. According to the latest accurate survey done, there are 1,776 hills spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometres (20 sq mi). They are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, hence the name.
During the dry season, the grass-covered hills dry up and turn chocolate brown. This transforms the area into seemingly endless rows of "chocolate kisses".
Grass species found to thrive on the hills are Imperata cylindrical and Saccharum spontaneum and several Compositae and ferns. Trees grow on the base of the hills and are lush and verdant rings around the almost bare cone-shaped hills resulting in its awesome natural beauty.
The Chocolate Hills is a rolling terrain of haycock hills - mounds of general shape which are conical and almost symmetrical. Estimated to be at least 1,268 individual mounds to about 1,776, these cone-shaped or dome-shaped hills are actually made of grass-covered limestone.
The domes vary in sizes from 30 to 50 metres (98 to 160 ft) high with the largest being 120 metres (390 ft) in height. Bohol's "main attraction," these unique mound-shaped hills are scattered by the hundreds throughout the towns of Carmen, Batuan and Sagbayan in Bohol.
The most acceptable geological theory of the hills is that the hills were the result of thousands of years of weathering of marine limestone. Others say that the hills were formed ages ago by the uplift of coral deposits or that they erupted from the sea in a massive geologic shift, and the action of rain water and erosion for the past thousand years put in the finishing touches.
http://www.theworldgeography.com/2011/01/two-wonders-of-philippine-islands-bohol.html
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MOUNTAIN
Hi im Robert and i used to live there and i am happy to say that this place will always be home to me.
/Robert
(2013-05-18 08:10)
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chocolate hills-reflection of stars
If the experts are clever enough to examine the hills formation, they might find that some formations of certain group of hills are reflections of constellation of stars that might reveal when, who and why these hills were made.
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(2012-09-09 06:30)
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Hill
Apgjmj.Tmt haltp
/Ajaykumar
(2012-06-25 16:04)
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HELL
VERY NICE AND INCREDIBLE HILL
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(2012-06-12 11:03)
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Mounds
Got some big moles in this country!
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(2012-06-05 15:18)
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ddd
these remind me of cow shits
/.35, 013, 14, 23, 36, 366, 453, 5., 5344, 5435, 559+, 56, choche, gov, injun tone, injun71, injun71,tone, vjuvki
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