Greetings everyone, Manticao Misamis Oriental in Mindanao Philippines have many different kinds of wonderful views, sceneries just like Mountain, Plains, and most of all the River. In this article I created today, I will share some of the wonderful place at the river. Even if this is popular and a simple travel I've done but it keeps myself relaxing and have a peaceful mind and heart by exploring the place. Lots of people have been here at the river and some of them are came from far away places just like cities and other urbanized areas. But before I proceed to my Main topic, First I tell the exact location of the river.
Location of Manticao River:
Manticao river is located at the heart or at the middle of the mountainous places of Manticao. From Barangay Poblacion, we must travel at about 1 hour if we want to walk, but if we take travel using any passenger vehicle, it takes only 20 minutes. This river is serve as a boundary line between the two Barangays:
- Poblacion
- Paniangan
All of this place are part of Manticao, Misamis Oriental. This place is surrounded with many tall trees,.mountains, Cliffs and tons of gravel.
This river contains a crystal-clear water and it is perfect for swimming here in the midst of hot weather due to summer season. Because of the clearness of the water, the water bed,sands, stones and fish can be seen under. Even if the intense heat continues here, still there are plenty of water flowed down going to the sea. Different kinds of rocks including its sizes, shapes, colors and designs are also seen here. Some of it are slowly showed up in the surface because of the water level keep decreasing. The only thing we heard if we try to visit here are tweeting of birds, Wind blows at the leaves of the trees and bamboos and splashing of water from the river.
Algae plants grows under water is very normal in times of summer season. Fish, crabs and shrimps hide here and also includes the shells like SUSO. This kind of plants helps the river to keep always cool and the fish will not died because of the heat. Algae plants releases oxygen that helps to the aquatic animals. Almost all of the place are already covered with algae plants, there are also some small water lilies floated at the water.
This are some of the trees can be seen and found near at the river. It grows in the cliff for many years already. The vine of some of the trees here holds and cling together, some of the roots are showed up because of the big floods happens here at the place. There are lots of birds and other wild animals can be seen and heard here, it gives a shady and cool place because of its leaves blowing by the wind. The roots of this trees also hold together tightly in the cliff and it helps the soil of being not eroded.
This is a kind of mud hole were crabs, fish and shrimps hide. Some of the people who went for fishing searched for this kind of hole, and they will checked it if there are aquatic animals hiding in the place. Some of the place are already covered with algae or Lumot in Local term.
There are tons of stones here, in fact most of the residents here are using this as a landscape decorations. This was once a watery place but as many months has past, it was completely dried up and the stones showed up at the surfaces.
There are some hidden stories behind of this river, one of this is the big and ancient trees like Molavie already submerged at the water for many years already. These are some ancient molave trunks sunken in the river. There are lots of floods happens here but this trunks keeps remain here. This is a big part of the history because according to the geographic personel, they examine that this tree was already beem here 750 years ago.
This river contains lots of wonderful views and sceneries, a perfect place to do adventure and peaceful place to live. Thank you for visiting my post, have a nice day everyone.