The Chocolate Hills are a geological formation in Bohol Province,

Philippines.[1] There are at least 1,260 hills but there may be as many as 1,776
hills spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometres (20 sq mi).[2] They
are covered in green grass that turns brown (like chocolate) during the dry
season, hence the name.
About two million years ago, most of the island of Bohol was underwater,
below a shallow sea. Coral reefs thrived and extensively covered the sea floor.
Over time during stormy days fragments of corals and shells were deposited in
the reefs, forming thin layers surrounding the live coral reefs. Slowly the land rose
causing the coral reef formations to emerge out of the sea.

The Chocolate Hills were carved out from the thin layers of coral and shell
fragments. With rainwater acting on the layers of coral and shell fragments for
ten to hundreds of thousands of years, gullies were deepened and widened to
become streams, lakes were emptied by underground rivers and interconnected
conical hills were formed from the original flat surface.

The Chocolate Hills that you now see are a product of the patient labouring
of rainwater on a thin soluble limestone formation.













Quizana, Catlyn F.
BEED III A

CHOCOLATE HILLS
IN BOHOL PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES