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Origins and Geographic Features of the Philippines (Prof. Rey Carlo Gonzales)
Summary:
The Philippine is located in Asia and the southeastern portion of Asia. It’s bound in the north by
Taiwan, in the West by the West Philippine Sea, in the east by the Pacific, and in the South by the
Celebes Sea. The Philippines is home to 7,107 Islands but the number actually fluctuates and so it’s really
much closer to a recent count of 7,641 Islands. The reason for this is that sometimes the islands
submerged because of climate change, or they discover new islands, or they could be taken from us.
Approximately, it is 1,000 square miles from north to south. The land surface is 114,830 square miles.
The size and diversity of the features of the Philippines translates into things like cultural diversity,
biodiversity, presence of subcultures and cultures and the strong maritime culture.
Professor Rey Carlo Gonzales discussed the different theories about how the Philippines came to be.
Such theories are; the Continental Drift Theory, The Land Bridge Theory, The Faulting and Folding
(Diastrophism) Theory, the Volcanic Origins Theory and lastly The Last Continent of Mu. He also
discussed the Mythological Origins of the Philippines such as; the Idea of Divine Creation, A Quarrel
Between Divinities and The Atlas-Type Narrative.