Batad Rice Terraces Quiz: Amphitheater Fields and Ifugao Water
This Batad rice terraces quiz climbs into a remote Ifugao village encircled by a giant bowl of fields. Play 10 interactive questions on stone retaining walls, the muyong woodlots that store water, bamboo pipes and canals, heirloom tinawon rice, Tappiya Falls, the hike in from the saddle, UNESCO listing in 1995 and new research on how old the terraces really are.
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Province
Which Philippine province is Batad in?
Shape
What shape do the Batad terraces form?
Walls
What are most Batad terrace walls built of?
Forest
What is a muyong?
Water
How is water shared between terraces?
Rice
What is tinawon rice?
Falls
Which waterfall lies near Batad?
Access
How do most visitors reach Batad village?
UNESCO
When were the Philippine Cordillera terraces listed by UNESCO?
Age
What have recent studies suggested about many Ifugao terraces?
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Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions
- Q1: Which Philippine province is Batad in?
Answer: Ifugao
It is in the Cordillera mountains of Luzon.
- Q2: What shape do the Batad terraces form?
Answer: An amphitheater
Fields curve around a bowl-like valley.
- Q3: What are most Batad terrace walls built of?
Answer: Stone
Many other Ifugao terraces use earth walls.
- Q4: What is a muyong?
Answer: A family-owned forest woodlot above the fields
Trees catch and store rainwater.
- Q5: How is water shared between terraces?
Answer: Through canals and bamboo pipes
Water flows down from field to field.
- Q6: What is tinawon rice?
Answer: An heirloom variety grown once a year
Its cycle follows Ifugao ritual.
- Q7: Which waterfall lies near Batad?
Answer: Tappiya Falls
A trail drops down through the terraces.
- Q8: How do most visitors reach Batad village?
Answer: By hiking down from a saddle
There is no road into the village center.
- Q9: When were the Philippine Cordillera terraces listed by UNESCO?
Answer: 1995
Batad is one of five listed clusters.
- Q10: What have recent studies suggested about many Ifugao terraces?
Answer: They may be a few hundred years old, not 2,000
Radiocarbon dates point to after about 1600.
Stone Walls, Woodlots and Shared Water
Batad sits in a steep valley in Ifugao province, where rice terraces wrap around the slopes like the seats of an amphitheater. Unlike many Ifugao terraces held up by earth, most Batad walls are built of stone. The cluster is one of five sites in the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, listed by UNESCO in 1995.
Water is the heart of the system. Families keep muyong, private forest woodlots above the fields, whose trees capture rain and feed springs. Canals and bamboo pipes carry that water down from terrace to terrace, so each field drains into the next. Farmers grow tinawon, an heirloom rice planted once a year.
Batad has no road to its center, so visitors hike down from a saddle point, then on to Tappiya Falls. The terraces were long said to be 2,000 years old, but radiocarbon studies suggest many were built a few hundred years ago, possibly as people moved into the uplands after Spanish arrival.
What This Quiz Teaches
Fans of farming landscapes will enjoy these questions.
- How the bowl is shaped
- What the walls are made of
- How water is shared
- Which rice is grown
- How old the terraces may be
Did You Know?
- Homestays line the terrace edges.
- Ifugao carvers make wooden bulul figures.
- Harvest falls in mid-year.
- Walking the walls needs good balance.
- Local guides lead hikes to the falls.
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