Chocolate Hills
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 120 m (390 ft)
- Native name
- Mga Bungtod sa Tsokolate ( Cebuano )
- Settlements
- Sagbayan Batuan Carmen Bilar Sierra Bullones Valencia
- Rock age
- Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene
- Mountain type
- Range of karst conical hills
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hill
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Bohol
- Image
- Chocolate Hills overview.JPG
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- Commons category
- Chocolate Hills
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
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Encyclopedic overview
The Chocolate Hills (Cebuano: Mga Bungtod sa Tsokolate, Filipino: Mga Tsokolateng Burol, or Mga Burol na Tsokolate) are a geological formation in the Philippine province of Bohol. A minimum of 1,260 hills, and possibly over 1,776, spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers (20 sq mi). They are covered in green grass that turns a chocolate-brown during the dry season, hence the name.
The Chocolate Hills are featured on the provincial flag and seal to symbolize the abundance of natural attractions in the province. The site is on the Philippine Tourism Authority's list of tourist destinations in the Philippines, and it has been declared the country's third national geological monument, as well as being proposed for inclusion in UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chocolate Hills” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.