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LAND USE AND SETTLEMENT PATTERN ENVIRONMENT

Land Use and Settlement Pattern Environment have a major impact on natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. Land use information can be used to develop solutions for natural resource management. Furthermore, having a land use planning can help the researchers to evaluate park resources, documents and recommends programs for managing and conserving these resources, discusses key planning issues, indicates relevant policies, and offers proposals for future recreational and service facilities to provide for the range of public recreational needs in the park.

Here are some of the natural environments that Paco Park has:

* Paco Park is a 4,114.80 square meter recreational garden area. * Once Manila’s municipal cemetery during the Spanish colonial period. * This oval-shaped, domed chapel which are said to be a Romanesque style; was the burial place for Spanish governors, captains, generals, prelates and some members of the elite during the Spanish era in the Philippines. * What's a typical to this former Spanish cemetery is that a massive circular wall surrounds it. * There are five levels of vaults actually but now it’s just only three because of the flood so that the government raised them. * Top the third level is a walkway that connects the inner walls of the park. * At the center of the cemetery is a circular fountain. * Open-air amphitheater that have set the stage for many occasions. * Top of the walls were made into pathways for promenades.

TRANSPORTATION

* Calesa (kalesa) * Calesa came from the Spanish word “wheels”. * Philippine life and culture will never be the same without the Kalesa. * It is part of Philippine history and its importance can never be ignored. Despite the challenges of modernization, the Kalesa will always provide a unique mode of transport that is environmentally friendly. * How to get there:

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