Geography:
Philippines is an archipielago of 7, 707 islands that form a 300.000 Km² land. It is divided into three main groups: Luzon at the north side, Biscayans, in the middle and Mindanao in the south.
The Philippines are very rich in vegetation. It has a rain forest with a great variety of epiphytes and saprophytes. There’s also numerous conifers, bamboos, and palms that can reach the 2 thousand meters in altitude. It has a huge set of ferns, vines and colorful flowers.
Culture:
The History of the Philippines shows a lot of influences, cultures and races who settled and mixed in the archipelago. When Spain conquers Philippines, they teach them their religion, built numerous schools, universities and hospitals and create new cities. Then, after the Hispano- American war, the United States took Philippines as a colony and decides to Christianize the island although this was Catholic for many years.
Agruculture:
The colonies were part of an Atlantic trading network that linked them with England, Africa, and the West Indies. The pattern of commerce, called the Triangular Trade, involved the exchange of products from colonial farms, plantations, fisheries, and forests with England for manufactured goods and the West Indies for molasses. Some of the products the Philippines have were sugarcane, coconuts, rice, corn, bananas, cassavas, pineapples, mangoes; pork, eggs, beef; fish.
Natural Resources:
The Philippines is rich in natural resources. It has fertile, arable lands diverse flora and fauna, extensive coastlines, and rich mineral deposits. The country‘s six major crops are rice, corn, sugarcane, coconut, abaca and tobacco. Half of the country is a jungle, in which numerous minerals such as cooper and nickel can be found. Another important natural resource is the sea. There are 2,400 fish species found in the country and marine products that include corals, pearls, crabs and seaweeds.
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