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A river called Canturing runs through the site that became Maasin City in Southern Leyte, and it gave the city its name. Spanish soldiers once stopped there looking for drinking water and asked local people, in Spanish, what village this …
Islands, reefs and rock formations under protection, about 40 kilometres west of Catarman. The area covers the island municipality of Biri and the rest of the Balicuatro Islands, plus the coast of Lavezares, Rosario and San Jose, whose first letters …
A Catholic parish church at the centre of the city, and the National Shrine of Saint Joseph. It belongs to the Archdiocese of Cebu, and its parish covers the barangays of Guizo, Centro, Looc, Cambaro and Mantuyong.
A nature conservation centre with birds, lizards, snakes and crocodiles, started in 2001 and the first of its kind in Central Visayas. It breeds the Philippine crocodile and the sailfin lizard, both endangered. Its best known animal is Lapu-Lapu, an …
A two-storey bahay na bato painted Mediterranean blue, one of the heritage houses of Carcar. The ground floor may date from the 1880s. Don Mariano Mercado, the American-era mayor of the town, added the hardwood second floor in 1906 to …
The church of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent Ferrer. April 5, the anniversary of his death, is his official feast day, and pilgrims come to venerate him. The activities that day are religious ones only.
A president of the Philippines lived here: Carlos P. Garcia built the house in 1953 and 1954, on the lot of the older Jorolan house, and kept it as his provincial home. He came from Talibon, on the far side …
A park across from Pagadian City Hall, with a fountain that dances to music. The fountain usually starts at 6:00pm.
A peak with a view across the twin cities of Dipolog and Dapitan, climbed by a stairway of 3003 steps. Catholic devotees go up it every year for the Katkat Sakripisyo, their penitential rite in Lent.
The town church, built in 1871 for Saint James the Greater, the patron saint of Dapitan. The interior walls are about one metre thick and still original, although the altar and the interior have been renovated several times. Inside is …
A flat coral island of 78 hectares with white sand beaches, ringed by 70 hectares of reef and sandy areas. It is an island barangay of Dapitan, and 692 people lived there at the 2020 census. The island lies 12.9 …
The third largest lake in Mindanao, after Lake Lanao and Lake Mainit, with a surface area of 61.34 square kilometres. It lies low, an average of 4.5 metres above sea level, and is made of marshy basins fed by the …
The cave where the Maitum jars were found: earthenware burial jars shaped like people, with full or partial faces. A National Museum team dug here in 1991 and again in 2008. The team leader, Eusebio Dizon, said jars of this …
Four large church bells stand at the top of a hill in Barangay Malaubang. Bishop-Prelate Patrick Cronin bought them for the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, but at 7 tons they were too heavy and too large for its …
A small freshwater crater lake on Mount Leonard, a stratovolcano also known as Leonard Kniaseff. The mountain stands in the Leonard Mountain Range, 60 kilometres northeast of Davao City. The lake fills a caldera left when one of the biggest …
A rock formation in Cortes holding three lagoons. The name comes from laswit, the local word for splash: when the water is high, above all in the Amihan season, the waves hit the rocks and fall back over them like …
A wooded hill at a bend in the Masao River, above Butuan Bay and the ground where ancient Butuan stood. Many hold it to be the place where Magellan and his men said the first Catholic Mass on Philippine soil …
The widest and most navigable river in Mindanao. People who live along its banks honour their patroness Senora Santa Ana (Saint Anne) every last Sunday of July, in the Abayan festival. The old Ramon Magsaysay Bridge crosses the river in …
A hill in sight of the city proper, walked up by families during Holy Week for penance and devotion. Climbers use it at other times of the year, and the top gives a wide view of Agusan del Norte and …
A group of 43 caves at Barangay Vinapor, one of the places people go to in Carmen. The town is also a diving stop, with sites at the Punta Diwata Reefs and the Balete Wall. Barangay Vinapor holds two resorts …
The southernmost peak in the Philippines: six limestone pillars that stand as its six summits. Local people call it Bud Bongao and hold it sacred. Two Islamic preachers who followed Karim ul-Makhdum are believed to lie under the Tampat Rocks, …
A mosque with a pink facade, which is why most people call it the Pink Mosque. It stands in the town of Datu Saudi Ampatuan. Then-Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom paid for the building and put it on his family's land. Christian …
A mountain above Barangay Kusiong, green because grass covers most of it. The hike from the foot to the summit takes two hours.
A town museum about the Lami-lamihan festival, the celebration that gave the city its name. Lami-Lamihan means merrymaking and conference together. When Spanish explorers asked the Yakan what the place was called, the Yakan thought they were asking about the …
A minor basilica dedicated to Saint Anne, beside the Taguig River in Barangay Santa Ana, the old town of the city. It faces Plaza Quezon, where a statue of Manuel L. Quezon was raised while he was president.
A small zoo in Potrero, with caged animals, an aquarium and gardens. Manny Tangco founded it around 1989. The animals carry the names of politicians, actors and other public figures, and they include Bengal tigers, lions, bears, deer, orangutans and …
The mother church of Makati, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and standing in Poblacion, the old heritage barangay. In front of the facade is Plaza Cristo Rey, which used to be the San Pedro de Macati cemetery. The National …
A beach town on a natural harbour, and the usual way into Oriental Mindoro from Luzon. The harbour shelters ships, yachts and bancas from typhoons blowing in off the Pacific, and in November 2004 the bay joined the UNESCO-affiliated Club …
A church of 1690 in Luna, declared a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines. Its titular is Saint Catherine of Alexandria. It is also the shrine for the image of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception …
An aquarium and park that opened in 2025, the first of its kind in Ilocos Sur. It shows a wide range of marine life, including stingrays and coral reefs.