cogon

They live in houses made of bamboo and cogon grass.

The church's cogon roof was replaced with zinc sheets in the late 19th century.

These were created from territory of former barrio Cogon.

It was once built with cogon and bamboo by Augustinian friars around 1788.

It is also dominated by shrubs such as katungaw-tungaw, coronitas and cogon.

Believers built a new church made of bamboo and cogon thatch to refurbish the former.

Ukibara has no arable land and is mostly covered in dense cogon grass.

Its habitat is in dense cogon grassland, and primary and secondary forest.

No one seem to care to at least trim the cogon grass and shrubs growing in the area and make use of the fertile land.

Education was introduced and a bamboo community hall roofed with cogon was erected.

The rest is covered predominantly by Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica).

The basic cogon grass is still preserved as roofs of their houses, thickly constructed to withstand strong winds.

They build their houses of bamboo and cogon, grass both of which grew abundantly in the hills nearby.

The settlement started to flourish and later a church and a town hall were built out of bamboo and cogon grass.

A shopping center, Plaza Marcela, and other commercial establishments are also situated in Cogon.

Quonset huts made of cogon used by the Americans as barracks were used as temporary rooms.

The native did not understand Spanish and believed he was asking what the grass was called, so the owner of the hut answered "Cogon".

For 38 years or so, the people of Tanay suffered their church to be made of bamboo and cogon grass for roofing.

A hermita made of bamboo and cogon grass was put up, and a one-storey primary school building was constructed.

Otherwise, words of local origin are written and spelled in the native manner along Spanish spelling rules (i.e. jendeh, cogon).

Wood was used for trusses to support the roof, which originally was made of cogon grass and was later replaced with nipa.

The community was originally a vast area of Cogon growth interposed with thick forestalls areas stretching into the Zambales mountain ranges.

Growing around are natural materials for handicraft such as wild vines, buri, anahaw, tikiw, bamboo, cogon and talahib.

From one quarter there is a steep sweep of coarse tall cogon [thatching] grass up to the forest which caps the peak.

Many years ago, the place was a vast plain of land with few houses, two roads and a little vegetation including the balite tree and Cogon grass.