What is Mountain Province?
[[File:Mountain in Philippines.svg|thumb|Mountain Province shown in red within the map of the [[Philippines]].]] [[Image:Flag of Mountain Province.png|thumb|150px|Flag]] [[Image:Seal of Mountain Province.png|thumb|90px|Seal]] '''Mountain Province''' is a [[Provinces of the Philippines|province]] in the [[Philippines]], located in [[Luzon]]'s [[Cordillera Administrative Region]]. The provincial capital is [[Bontoc, Mountain Province|Bontoc]]. The name of the province is often shortened to Mt. Province by locals. The name comes from being in the [[Cordillera|Cordillera Central mountain range]] on [[Luzon]] island. Mountain Province was the historical name for a larger province, established in 1908 and later split into Mountain Province, [[Benguet]], Kalinga-Apayao, and [[Ifugao]] in 1966.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/report00integoog|title=Report|last=Philippines Dept. of the Interior|date=1908|publisher=Government Printing Office|others=University of Michigan|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0OsAAAAIAAJ|title=Taming Philippine Headhunters: A Study of Government and of Cultural Change in Northern Luzon|last1=Keesing|first1=Felix Maxwell|last2=Keesing|first2=Marie Margaret|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-2110-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=PHILIPPINE LAWS, STATUTES AND CODES - CHAN ROBLES VIRTUAL LAW LIBRARY|url=https://www.chanrobles.com/republicacts/republicactno4695.html|access-date=2023-12-12|website=www.chanrobles.com}}</ref> The Mountain province is full of [[Nature|natural beauty]] and is famous for it's [[Mummification|mummy]] [[Cave|caves]] with naturally preserved bodies and hanging coffins.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r0EOAQAAMAAJ|title=Fast Facts about Philippine Provinces|last=Lancion|first=Conrado M.|date=1995|publisher=Tahanan Books|isbn=978-971-630-037-6|language=en}}</ref> == Location == [[File:Maligcong Rice Terraces.jpg|thumb|Maligcong Rice terraces in the Mountain Province