[7] Bud Bongao is composed of six limestone pillars that form six of its peaks, which serves as view points for the islands and locations they are named after.

[6] These peaks are Bongao, Pajar, Sibutu (summit), Simunul, Tambisan, and Tinondakan.

[1] Mount Bongao hosts one of the last remaining moist forests in the Sulu Archipelago.

[6] The red dragonfly, orange albatross, mangrove blue flycatcher, Philippine pitta are found on the mountain.

[8] Bongao and its surrounding islands—Sanga-Sanga, Simunul, Tawi-Tawi—are also home to the vulnerable Tawi-Tawi forest rat and the Philippine slow loris.