What Is The Second Biggest River In The Philippines?
SECOND BIGGEST RIVER IN THE PHILIPPINES – In this topic, we are going to know and identify the second biggest river in the Philippines?
A river is a fresh body of water which flows towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. There are cases where a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water
There are about 412 principal river basins in the Philippines.
The biggest river of them all is the Rio Grande de Cagayan which is obviously located in the Cagayan Valley, but what is the second biggest?
Answer
It is none other than Rio Grande de Mindanao.
Also known as Mindanao River, it is a river which is found on the southern island of Mindanao.
It has its source on the Central Mindanao Highlands near the northern coast of the island, where it is known as the Pulangi River.
It then flows southward across the Bukidnon Plateau, where it is fed up by its tributaries before emerging onto the Cotabato plains.
The Mindanao river then empties into Illana Bay at its mouth at Cotabato City.
Its tributaries include the following:
- Pulangi River
- Simuay River
- Buluan River
- Allah River
- Libungan River
- M’lang River