Mount Pangasugan

Mount Pangasugan
Location within the Philippines
Highest point
Elevation	1,150 m (3,770 ft)
Geography
Location	Leyte
Country	Philippines
Region	Eastern Visayas
Province	Leyte
Range coordinates	10°43′45″N 124°54′30″E / 10.729167°N 124.908333°E / 10.729167; 124.908333Coordinates: 10°43′45″N 124°54′30″E / 10.729167°N 124.908333°E / 10.729167; 124.908333

Mount Pangasugan is a mountain in the province of Leyte in the Philippines. It is approximately 1,150 metres (3,770 ft) tall, and located to the north of the city of Baybay. The mountain is densely vegetated, very steep, and home to a remarkable number of plant and animal species. It has been called "the last forest frontier in Eastern Visayas." Mt. Pangasugan Ecopark is situated in the virgin rain forest of the mountain.

A study by Visayas State University (VSU) in Baybay City, Leyte found many animal species listed by the World Conservation Union in the Red List of Threatened Animals (IUCN Red List), including the Philippine tarsier, Philippine flying fox, Fischer's pygmy fruit bat. New records of the microbat (Hipposideros obscurus), with a length of 5.5 centimeters and body weight of 10 grams, a type of skink (Tropidophorus grayi), and two new species of the Gobiidae fishes (Stiphodon olivaceus and Stiphodon surrufus) were also found by the VSU survey.

VSU’s Natural History Museum collected 43,000 arthropod specimens from 377 families and 500 genera on Mt. Pangasugan. A new species of orchid (Dendrobium milaniae) and a tiger beetle (Thopeutica milaniae) were named in honor of incumbent VSU president Dr. Paciencia Po-Milan, a renowned ecologist.