page_title: Cordillera Central (Luzon)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Cordillera Central (Luzon) / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Relief map of northwestern Luzon showing the borders of the Cordillera Administrative Region highlighted in black.
context_page_description: The Cordillera Central or Cordillera Range is a massive 320 km long mountain range situated in the northern central part of the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. The mountain range encompasses all provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region, as well as portions of eastern Ilocos Norte, eastern Ilocos Sur, eastern La Union, northeastern Pangasinan, western Nueva Vizcaya, and western Cagayan.
  To the north, the mountain range terminates at the northern shores of Luzon along the Babuyan Channel in Ilocos Norte and Cagayan provinces. At its southeastern part, the Central Cordillera is linked to the Sierra Madre Mountains, the longest mountain range in the country, through the Caraballo Mountains in Nueva Vizcaya province. During Spanish colonial period, the whole range was called Nueva Provincia.
context_section_description: The Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Philippines. It comprises about 1/6 of the whole Luzon island with a total area of 22,500 km² (8,700 sq mi). The highest mountain in the range, Mount Pulag, is also the highest mountain on Luzon Island at 2,922 metres (9,587 ft). It is officially the third highest mountain in the country after Mount Dulang-dulang and Mount Apo on Mindanao Island, the second largest island of the Philippines.
  The mountain range separates the Ilocos plains on the west and the Cagayan Valley on the east. It also affects the weather pattern in the island of Luzon in such it acts as a barrier against the Northeast and Southwest monsoons as well as cyclones crossing the island.
  This is the biggest and highest mountain chain in the Philippines, measuring 320 km (198 miles) long north to south, and 118 km (73 miles) width east to west, and consists of three ranges.  The Malayan Range is located in the northern and western portion of the Cordillera, followed by the Central Range, and then the  Polis Range in the eastern portion.  Mount Data contains the headwaters for Suyoc, which flows into the Abra River, the Chico flows into the Cagayan River, the Asin flows into the Magat River, and Agno River flows into the Lingayen Gulf.
caption: Cordillera Administrative Region (outlined) covers most of the range.
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