An ethnic group of the Philippines located in the Cordillera region, or their language, known for their mountain agriculture and indigenous customs.
From the native language and indigenous self-designation of the Apayao people. The term became standardized in English through Philippine colonial administration and modern ethnographic literature.
The Apayao have maintained unique agricultural practices in mountain terraces for centuries, and their oral histories preserve knowledge about monsoon patterns and sustainable farming that modern climate scientists are now studying. Indigenous knowledge systems are often centuries ahead of Western science.
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