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The Ifugao Rice Terraces are mountain fields in the Philippines, carved into steep slopes to grow rice with shared water systems.

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UNESCO calls them a living cultural landscape. They are agriculture, engineering, memory and cooperation at once: terraces, irrigation, soil knowledge and ritual maintained across generations. Food begins long before it reaches a plate.

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Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Ifugao Pirinç Terasları, Filipinler’de dağ yamaçlarına kurulmuş, su kanallarıyla beslenen basamaklı pirinç tarlalarıdır.

UNESCO bu alanı yaşayan bir kültürel peyzaj olarak tanımlar. Teraslar yalnızca tarla değildir; mühendislik, sulama bilgisi, toprak yönetimi, ritüel ve ortak emeğin birleşimidir. Pirinç burada bir ürün olduğu kadar kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılan bir düzenin parçasıdır.

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UNESCO describes the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras as a living cultural landscape blending physical, socio-cultural, economic, religious and political environments, built and passed down across generations. Source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/722/

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