PHOTOS | The houses built to survive floods

BY COLOMBO TIMES ON December 07, 2023 - 5:08 PM

In 2012, the Agusan Marshlands, where the Manobo indigenous community lives in the southe Philippines, were hit by a terrible typhoon.

The area is a wetland area with rivers, lakes and swamps.

It is said that even a 33-feet-high three-storey house built here will get flooded.

That is why they have built their houses according to the concept of floating houses in the water.

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A woman steers her traditional boat through a lake in the Philippines (Credit: Gab Mejia)
The floating houses of the Manobo indigenous people in Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marshlands (Credit: Gab Mejia)
The community
Manobo children play in their parents
The Agusan Marshlands are increasingly being tu ed into farmland such as palm oil plantations and rice paddies due to the drying climate (Credit: Gab Mejia)
Floating houses, chapels and animal pens in the marshlands are built on modular rafts that adapt to the rise and fall of the water (Credit: Gab Mejia)

(colombotimes.lk)