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The Chocolate Hills is an unusual geological formation in the island Province of Bohol in the Philippines . The hills are the most famous tourist attraction on the island and consists of at least 1,268 individual mounds. The hills are scattered throughout the Municipalities of Carmen , Batuan , and Sagbayan . What makes them intriguing is their mostly uniform molehill shape and size ranging from 30 to 50 meters high. The hills are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, giving the hills their name. A popular local myth for the hills' origin states that two giants fought with stones and sand against each other over a period of several days. A more romantic tale is that of Arogo, a strong and young giant who fell in love with Aloya, a mortal girl. She died within the palm of the giant's hand and the tears that fell supposedly turned into the hills. Geologist s have long debated about the formation of the hills. The most accepted theory, and the one that is written on a bronze plaque at an observation hill, is that the hills are eroded formations of a type of marine limestone that sits on top of hardened clay. In 1988, the government of the Philippines declared the Chocolate Hills a National Geological Monument because of its unique formation. Currently two hills have been developed for tourism, one in Carmen, the very interior of Bohol, and the more recent one in Sagbayan, known as Sagbayan Peak. |
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