Rising to 2,880 m above the plateaus of central Bukidnon, Mount
Kalatungan is the highest peak of the Kalatungan Mountain Range and among the five
highest in the Philippines - a stratovolcano with no recorded eruption, but classed by
PHIVOLCS as potentially active. The whole range is the ancestral domain of the
Manobo and Talaandig peoples, who call its forested crown
Idsesenggilaha, a sacred place, and in 2012 had it recognised as an Indigenous
and Community Conserved Area under their own stewardship.
The range runs 38 km east-to-west across the province and shelters a mossy,
cloud-fed forest - at least 342 plant and 129 animal species, including the
critically endangered Philippine eagle, the Philippine warty pig and the
flying fox. West of the summit the ridge carries on to Mount Makaupao
(~2,814 m), and the range's cloud forests feed the headwaters that drain toward the
Pulangi and Muleta rivers below.
Like its taller neighbours Kitanglad and Dulang-dulang to the north, Kalatungan is
a place of dawn seas of cloud - the summit ridge rising clear while the
valleys stay drowned in white. Press the button below to raise the cloud deck. Terrain
is real NASA SRTM elevation draped with Esri World Imagery; the summit ridge is refined
with a denser mesh and z15 imagery. The cloud deck is stylised.