PHILIPPINES

Archipelago One of the largest archipelagos in the world

Archipelago group of islands
Islands 7,100 +
Land Area 30,000 hectares
Unnamed islands
Major Islands Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Samar, Leyte, Panay, Negros, Cebu, Mindoro,
Masbate, Bohol (93.5)
North Bashi Channel
East Pacific Ocean
West South China Sea
South Sulu Sea

1. LAND RESOURCES (NATURAL RESOURCES)
a. Alienable and disposable lands lands that can be privately owned or whose ownership
can be transferable
b. Forests
Classified Public Forests
Forest reserves (15.85 million hectares)
Timberland (you can cut down trees)
National park/ Bird sanctuaries
Military/ Naval reservation
Civil reservation
Fishpond development
Unclassified Forests (2,000,000 hectares) (0.47%)

TYPES OF FOREST (NATURAL RESOURCES)
Dipterocarp (red lauan and tangile) (1990s wood product production declined)
Coniferous (cones)
Mangrove (grown on water)
Brushland (cogon)

NON-FOREST (NATURAL RESOURCES)
(12.47 million hectares)
a. Agricultural crops
Food crops (rice and corn)
Commercial crops (coconut and sugarcone)
b. Livestock
c. Poultry

FISHERIES RESOURCES (NATURAL RESOURCES)
Kinds of fish 2,500
Pandaca Pygmaea smallest fish
Butanding biggest fish
Clams and snails 5,000

Kinds of fishing
Coastal or Municipal fishing 4.8km from the coast of our territorial water
Deep sea fishing commercial fishing vessel activity carried out in open seas
Aquaculture brackish water and fishponds

MINERAL RESOURCES (NATURAL RESOURCES)
Metallic gold, silver, chromite, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel and zinc
Nonmetallic sand, gravel, salt, silica sand
Mineral Fuel Petroleum, fossil fuels (oil and natural gas), coal, geothermal energy

2. PHYSICAL RESOURCES
Physical resources man-made structures and equipment constructed to increase the
productive capacity of an economy. (FIXED CAPITAL ASSETS)
Capital formation replacing old things with new ones
Physical Capital something loses it productivity through depreciation
Depreciation normal wear and tear of physical capital

3. HUMAN RESOURCES
Power of humans to produce goods and services
Labor physical exertion of muscles to produce power
Qualities education, health, well-being, age
Labor force 15 and above who are economically active
0 to 14 not yet productive
15 64 productive
65 and above no longer productive
Labor Force Participation rate those who are ACTUALLY economically active