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La Mesa Watershed Reservation
The La Mesa Watershed Reservation is a protected area that preserves the only major watershed in Metro Manila, Philippines. Also known as the ''Novaliches Watershed'', it contains the last remaining rainforest of its size in Metro Manila surrounding the La Mesa Dam and Reservoir, the primary source of potable drinking water for 12 million residents in the Manila metropolitan area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Senate Bill No. 157 )〕 The park is under the joint administration, supervision and control of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System. It was established in 2007 through Proclamation No. 1336 issued by President Gloria Arroyo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Proclamation No. 1336, s. 2007 )〕
==Geography==
The La Mesa Watershed encompasses an area of in the northern fringes of Quezon City, Caloocan and Rodriguez, Rizal. It is situated on a flat-topped hill or mesa at the foot of the southern Sierra Madre mountain range west of the Marikina Valley. It is about north from the center of Quezon City in Diliman, and some northeast from the center of Manila in Rizal Park.
The highest elevation in Quezon City is in the watershed's northern tip at above sea level.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Safe cities – Quezon City, Philippines )〕 It centers on the La Mesa Dam and Reservoir in Novaliches, an artificial lake which was created in 1929 as part of Manila's Ipo–Novaliches–San Juan water system under the American colonial government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System General Information )〕 The surrounding forest contains more than of nature trails and serves as the lungs of Metro Manila, providing it with clean air.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La Mesa Watershed Ecopark )〕 It also contains the ecological park known as the La Mesa Eco Park. This park located at the southern edges of the watershed in East Fairview is administered by the Quezon City Parks Development and Administration Department and was opened in 2003.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gardens and Parks )〕
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