GO CAGAYAN NORTH!!!

THE PHILIPPINES' TOP DESTINATION

Cagayan North offers a wide array of tourist attractions that lure tourists to come back for more. Aside from being geographically located at the topmost part of the Philippines, there is more to Cayagan North that makes it the Philippines' top destination.

MIRACULOUS OUR LADY OF PIAT. Known for the locals as "Apo Baket"," Our Lady of Piat continues to unite and bring hope to people, and attract thousands of pilgrims every year at the Basilica of Our Lady of Piat - the Pilgrimage Center of the North.

CENTURIES-OLD CHURCHES. Seventeen(17) Spanish-era churches with outstanding architectural details are all over the province, including Alcala's St. Philomene Church (1881), awide brick structure, and Rizal's San Raymundo de Penaforte Church, the only cultural heritage site declared by the NCCA.

BUNTUN BTIDGE. Built in 1968, it is known as the longest bridgeover fresh water in the country, measuring 1.4 km. long.

CALAYAN RAIL. (GALLIRALUS CALAYANENSIS). A new bird species, locally called "Piding", dark-brown-bodied with orange-red bill and legs; believed to be found nowhere elsein the world but on the secluded island of Calayan.

HUMPBACK WHALES. The Babuyan Channel has the highest number of sightings of cetacean species in the country - fourteen (14) whale and dolphin species which are believed to mate and reproduce in this part of the province.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES. Cagayan North's rich prehistoric past is evidenced by remains of extinct rhinoceros and tortoises; Lal-lo Shell Midden site (considered one of the largest in South-East Asia, if not the world); earliest evidence of rice in SE Asia found in a pottery in Solana; and other excavated material which indicate the prescence of humankind in the area as far back as 500,000 years ago.

SAMBALI. The Sambali is Cagayan North's biggest and longest running festival celebrated in Piat. Now considered the carrier festival of the province, local streetdancers clad in dazzling costumes and choreographed movement hold aloft the image of Our Lady of Piat, the patrones of the Valley.

OLDEST BELL IN THE FAR EAST. Sancta Maria Bell, the oldest bell in the far east, was forged in the year 1595. It is currently housed at the San Jacinto de Palonia Parish Church in Camalaniugan.

NUEVA SEGOVIA. Lal-lo, the real Nueva Segovia of the North, is one of the first four cities in the country.

CAVE CAPITAL OF THE PHILIPPINES. Most number of caves: over 200 caves in Penablanca alone, of which the seven-chambered Callao Cave is the most renown.

LONGEST COASTLINE. Cagayan North has the longest coastline among all provinces in the Philippines, measuring 700 kilometers from the Pacific side on the east to the Babuyan seaon the West, including the islands of the Babuyan channel.

MAGAPIT SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Built in 1978 by Japanese Engineers, the Magapit Suspension Bridge in Lal-lo is considered first suspension bridge in Asia.

>>> Special thanks to Office of the Governor, Province of Cagayan