Manila Bay is a natural harbour which serves the Port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines. Strategically located around the capital city of the Philippines.
Manila Bay is one of the most historic parts in the Philippine archipelago. Here are some historic and interesting facts about Manila Bay.
Manila Bay is one of the most historic parts in the Philippine archipelago. This beautiful natural harbor serves the Port of Manila. It is considered to be one of the best natural harbors in Southeast Asia and one of the world’s finest harbors.
Here are some historic and interesting facts about Manila Bay.
1.) Manila Bay, with an entrance of 19 km wide, is the Philippine gateway for socio-economic development.
2.) This historic water formation has an area of 1,994 km2 and a coastline of 190 km and with an average depth of 17 m.
3.) It is situated in the western part of Luzon and is bounded by Cavite and Metro Manila on the east, Bulacan and Pampanga on the north, and Bataan on the west and northwest.
4.) Remarkable islands on the include Corregidor, Caballo Island, El Fraile Island and Carabao island.
5.) There are two harbors in Manila Bay – the North and South Harbor. North Harbor, which is smaller, is used four inter-island shipping and the South Harbor is used for large ocean-going vessels.
6.) The Manila Bay Sunset is one of the most beautiful sunset views in the world.
7.) Manila Bay is the sanctuary of several Migratory birds such as the Chinese Egret and Black-winged Cuckoo-shrike.
8.) These birds and a large number of migratory birds use the intertidal mudflats, saltpans and fishponds during winter.
9.) There are 99 species of birds that were observed at various monitoring sites along the bay area.
10.) Originally, there are 54,000 hectares of mangroves in the bay. Only 794 hectares of mangroves remain at present due to land reclamation projects.
These are just some few interesting facts about how good the old manila bay is.
But today what is the real condition of manila bay?
Lets talk about how manila bay is today.
I know that everyone already know that manila bay today is not as clean as the old manila bay is because the manila bay today is one of the countries problem.
If you surf online about how manila bay is today you’ll be sad and disappointed.
I couldn’t imagine that this time would come that the condition of manila bay will be just like this too dirty and hard to fix to be like the old condition used to be.
But i know that we are all guilty to this subject matter this happens because of all of us and not just us but also the ocean offenders like Pier 18 is one of the reasons and an example of one of the things that has contribution on what happens in the bay today.
Pier 18 is an Illegal waste disposal facility that contribute largely to the pollution that contaminates the bay.
According to rappler (2018) Today, this is the state of Manila Bay:
As you can see on the pictures this is what is the state of manila bay right now. What do you feel? Do you somewhat feel sadness? Do you want to contribute some little help? If you want to just click on the website below and simply register to help on saving to conserve the manila bay! 🙂
http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/ph/getinvolved/Take-action-online/save-manila-bay/#.W599k9ycHIU
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