Cordillera- a name

given by the Spanish

Conquistadors when they
first saw the mountain
ranges. Meaning "knotted
rope", the Spanish term
refers to the jumbled rolls
and dips of this long-
range traversing the
northern part of Luzon
Island.
Cordillera Central- is a
massive mountain
range situated in the
northern central part of
the island of Luzon, in
the Philippines.
CORDILLERA CENTRAL
It is divided into six provinces and
seven ethno-linguistic groups:
Abra (Tingguian),
Apayao (Isneg),
Benguet (Kankanaey and
Ibaloi), Ifugao (Ifugao),
Kalinga (Kalinga, Isneg),
Mountain Province (Kankanaey).
 Cordillerans ('people
from the mountains')-
group of indigenous
people of Cordillera.
They are called as
“Igorot”.
The Cordilleras

The region is
dubbed as the
“Watershed Cradle
of North Luzon”.
Hosts 6 major rivers that provide
continuous water for irrigation
and energy for northern Luzon.
Chico River
Ahin River
Siffu River
Abra River
Amburayan River
Agno River
It is the
country's
only land-
locked region.
Landlocked means that
the land is surrounded by
other land and it has no
shore or anything else
landlock means not alot
of water but surrounded
by mountains.
The Cordilleras
 Major Festivals
 Panagbenga or Baguio Flower
Festival
 the Ulalim Festival in Kalinga
 Lang-ay Festival in Mountain
Province
 Banaue Imbayah Festival
 Tabuk Matagoan Festival.
Industries
 Mining
 The region is abundant with mineral
reserves. Includes metallic ores such as
gold, copper, silver, zinc, and non-
metallic minerals like sand, gravel and
sulfur.
 Agriculture
 Vegetable crop production is well
developed in Benguet
 Rice production in Ifugao and Abra
 Corn production in Mountain Province
and Kalinga
 Tourism
ABRA PROVINCE
 Capital-
Bangued
Known as the "Natural Dye
Capital of the Philippines“
Natural dyes are extracted from
the barks, leaves, fruits, and
roots of these plants, and used
to color
food, beverages, textiles, cosm
etics, furniture, and
pharmaceutical products.
Abra Major Industries:
 Bamboo and Rattan craft making,
 The natural dye industry
 Loom weaving
 Embroidery
 Other popular industries are piggery
and poultry, garment craft, and
needlecraft
 Abra
Tourist
Attractions
Don Mariano
Marcos Bridge
along the Abra Kalinga
National Road - third
longest bridge in the
Philippines
DON MARIANO MARCOS BRIDGE
Tangadan
Tunnel -a 40-meter
tunnel along the
Abra-Ilocos Sur
National road
TANGADAN TUNNEL
Don Teodoro Brillantes
Family Museum
It is a private museum which
houses the collections and
mementos of the Brillantes
family with a strong
manifestation of the Spanish
culture.
DonTeodoro Brillantes
Family Museum
Abra River
 This is the biggest, longest and
most popular river among the
numerous rivers criss-crossing
the valleys of the province. It is
where all rivers and streams
congregate together. This is a
perfect place for swimming and
fishing.
ABRA RIVER
ABRA RIVER
Sibud-Sibud Cave is
located along the
newly constructed
road of
Tineg, Abra, Philippine
s.
Tugot ni Angalo
Translated as “Footprints of Angalo”
(the Adam in Abra mythology)
Found in Kabaruyan, San Quintin.
a perpetual monument of Angalo.
The people believe this is a real giant
footprint in San Quintin, around fifteen
meters long, five meters wide and ten
feet deep. On a clear day, it can be
seen visibly even from a distance.
Abra: Festival
Arya Abra
 Celebrated every March 9
 Celebrates the creation of the
province Cupped by a grand
cultural parade depicting Abra in its
historical stages starting, from the
early pre-Spanish era to the
present times.
 APAYAO PROVINCE
Basic Facts
Capital: Kabugao
Total Land Area:
4,351.23 km2
Total Population:
103,633
Political Division: 7
Municipalities, 133
baranggays
Language Spoken:
Ilocano, Isneg and
Tagalog
Dubbed as “Cordillera’s Last
Frontier for Nature Richness.”
 Here,underground rivers, majestic
waterfalls, magnificent lakes hug a
unique land that is replete with
captivating caves, picture-pretty
parks, and exotic wildlife.
Major Industries
Furniture
Garment craft
Food processing
Gifts and house wares
Agricultural support
 ApayaoTourist Attractions
 Apayao River
 The unpolluted waters of Apayao
River render fish and wildlife visible
along its banks. Along the river can
be found an array of picture-pretty
waterfalls that are varying in sizes.
Traversing six Apayao
municipalities, from Calanasan to
Luna, Apayao River is navigable by
The Lussok Crystal Cave is
located in Luna, Apayao
Philippines. It is a perfect
example of the beauty of the
natural wonders of the country.
With its 3 room cave that holds
various stalagmite
formations, it’s a must see for
anyone visiting Apayao
Apayao: Tourist Attractions
 Lizardo Brooks
 Picturesque Lizardo
Brooks is located in the
municipality of Pudtol.

 Malabisin Lake and

Underground River
 A wealth of underwater
beauties await you in
scenic Malabisin. It is
located in Paco Valley.
Apayao: Tourist Attractions
 Spanish Church
 located at Barangay
Mataguisa in Pudtol is
considered to be one
of the oldest in the
Philippines.
 Spanish Church
Ruins
 The site of these
church ruins is located
at Barangay Emilia in
Pudtol.
Apayao: Festivals
 Annual Apayao Day Celebration (February
14)
 Cultural and sports activities as well as pageants.

 Say-Am-Talip-Tadoc
 A festival featuring ethnic songs, dances, and rituals.

 Pudtol Town Fiesta (every last

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of May)
 Agro-trade fair, pageant, and sports activities.
BENGUET
PROVINCE
Well-known for its mummy caves
which contain naturally mummified
bodies.
Political Subdivision:
 1 independent city
 13 municipalities
 140 barangays
Major Industries
 Agriculture
 Mining
 Tourism
 Benguet is the homeland of several
tribes, collectively referred to as the
Igorot.
 Ibaloi in the southeast and the Kankana-ey in
the northwest
Benguet: Baguio City
 Independent city within Benguet
 Regional Center of CAR
 Founded by the Americans in 1900 at
the site of an Ibaloi village known as
Kafagway.
 The name of the city is derived from
the word bagiw in Ibaloi meaning
“Moss”
Benguet: Baguio City
Basic Facts
 Total Land Area 57.51 km²
 Total Population: 318,676
(2010)
 Political Division: 120
Baranggays
 Languages Spoken:
○ Ibaloi
○ Kankana-ey
○ Tagalog
○ English
○ Pangasinense
○ Ilocano
Benguet: Baguio
City
How To get there?
 By Air: via Loakan Airport
 By Land: The three main access
roads leads to Baguio from the
lowlands:
○ Kennon Road
○ Aspiras-Palispis Highway (previously
known as Marcos Highway)
○ Naguilian Road, also known as
Quirino Highway.
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 Baguio Cathedral
 The rose-colored Baguio Catholic
Cathedral, located on top of a hill in
the heart of the city, is one of the
more familiar and most visited
landmarks of Baguio.
 one of the most photographed
buildings in the city.
 Baguio Country Club
 One of the oldest clubs in the
Philippines
 Originally Built as an exclusive
playground to the elite and
vacationing Americans.
 An accommodation Facility that offers
cottages and rooms
 Home of the Baguio Country Club
Rasin Bread
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 BenCab Museum
 Located in
Tuba, Benguet
 houses our National
Artist Ben Cabrera's
art collection
 This is also where
BenCab lives and
where his actual
workshop is located.
 Exhibits include
exciting contemporary
artists in Manila.
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 Burnham Park
 Baguio City's premier
park.
 Named in honor of its
planner and
architect, Daniel
Burnham.
 Contains a Man-made
Lake in the middle
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 Camp John Hay
 Originally a recreational
camp for American
soldiers.
 It has become a popular
destination for people
who wish to see the pine
forests in the city. It also
boasts of a sprawling
country club with a full
18-hole golf
course, Restaurants and
Shopping Centers
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 The Mansion
 Used as residence of the
president whenever he
or she is in Baguio for
their official visits and
engagements.
 The elaborate main gate
of the Mansion is said to
be a replica of that at
Buckingham Palace in
London.
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 Mines view Park
 One of the most popular and
most visited parks in the city.
 The observation deck of the
park offers a breathtaking
panoramic view of Benguet's
gold and copper mines
 Has stalls selling native
handicraft such as wood
carvings, locally made silver
products and
jewelry, baskets, brooms, sw
eaters, blankets, and a
variety of other items. There
are also canteens, snack
stores, and street vendors
selling food and beverages.
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 Philippine Military Academy
 The premier military institution of the country
and is the training ground for future officers of
the Armed Forces of the Phillippines.
 The 373-hectare compound in Loakan which is
ten kilometers south of downtown Baguio City.
Here it found its permanent home in a fort
named after the young hero of the battle of
Tirad Pass, Gen. Gregorio Del Pilar.
 Fort Del Pilar is one of the most visited and
photographed places in Baguio City.
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions
 Baguio Public Market
 The market is located right at the lower
end of Session Road and behind the
Maharlika Center. It is here where they
buy different souvenirs typical of Baguio.
There are numerous other products and
handicrafts sold at the Baguio public
market which are brought in from other
nearby provinces.
Baguio City: Tourist Attractions

Session Road
 The main thoroughfare of the
city and the center of Baguio's
commercial establishment.
Baguio City: Festival
Panagbenga Festival
 A month-long Flower Festival in Baguio
 Held during the month of February, created
as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way
to rise up from the devastation of the 1990
Earthquake.
KALINGA PROVINCE
Prince of the Highlands

 Declared as the Whitewater

Rafting Capital of North
Philippines
 Characterized in the
western portion by sharp
crested interlinking peaks
of the steep
slope, isolated flat
lands, plateaus, and
valleys.
 The eastern portion has
generally rolling, gradually
sloping foothills. With
interlocking wide tracks of
flat lands and flood plains
along its main drainage
system.
 Dubbed as the “Prince of
the Highlands” in the
Philippines.
Kalinga
 Major Industries
 Loom weaving
 rattan basketry
 banana chips processing
 animal feeds production
 rattan furniture
 gold jewelry manufacturing
 coffee pre-processing
Kalinga: Tourist Attractions
 Mt.
Mating-oy Dinayao (Sleeping
Beauty)
 These fabled mountain ranges that
border the municipalities of Tinglayan
and Tanudan take the form of a sleeping
lady supinely lying at its back.
 A vantage view of the profile can be seen
from Sungang or Basao.
Kalinga: Tourist Attractions

Tinglayan Rice
Terraces
These rice terraces appear
like an amphitheater along
the whole mountain slopes.
Lubo and Mangali Rice
Terraces
They surround the villages of
Lubo, and the best time to
view them is during the
planting season and when
the rice is already ready for
harvest.
 Mabilong Weavers
Village
 The center of
Kalinga’s ethnic
weaving industry. As
the village is situated
along the
road, souvenirs can
be bought straight
from the weavers.
Kalinga: Festivals
 Ullalim Festival / Kalinga Day (Feb 13-16)
 A highlight of the province’s founding
anniversary, this cultural festival showcases the
life of the Kalingas through sports, crafts, and
indigenous food.
 Salidummay Festival
 Features the ethnic songs, dances, and rituals of
the municipality of Lubuagan, Kalinga.
Mountain
Province
Mountain Province
 Known as the “Weaver’s
Paradise” due to the presence
of various weaving centers
 This was a province that
practiced the traditional
parliamentary/participatory
form of governance as
evidenced by the presence of
the Dap-ay/Ato, a traditional
form of governance led by the
respected elders in the
community.
Known for hanging coffins
 Major Industries
 The furniture industry
 Bamboo and rattan
 Backstrap weaving
Mountain Province: Tourist
Attractions
 Ato/Dap-ay
 Traditionally, a place where the council of
elders hold various ceremonies, meetings, and
happenings, which may be religious, social, or
political in nature.
 It is a public structure used as a dormitory by
the bachelors, widowers, young boys, and
visitors in the village.
 A fireplace is built at the center and a wooden
pole stands opposite it where heads of animals
butchered and sacrificed are hung.
Hanging Coffins
Coffins arranged in high
steep rock formations.
Sagada Caves
 The town sits in a limestone
valley riddled with over 60 known
caves. The Sagada caves
feature shimmering underground
streams with golden or silvery
stalactite and stalagmite
formations and cool natural pools
inside. Sumaging, the
largest, can be explored by
anyone with a local guide.
 Mountain Province: Tourist
Attractions
 Bontoc Village Museum
 Located within the Catholic Sisters’
Convent and Saint Vincent's Elementary
School.
 it features a range of artifacts crafted by
the Igorots for domestic purposes and
traditional celebrations or practices.
 Inside the museum, one could appreciate
the distinct richness of the Igorots' way of
life

 Blackstrap and Loom Weaving

Houses
 Loom weaving is done in Sabangan and
Sagada. Samoki, a village in
Bontoc, specializes in backstrap weaving.
Various colorful woven materials like
knapsacks, placemats, bags, and purses
are among the popular products.
Mountain Province:
Festivals
 Mountain Province Foundation Day (April
7)
 An- agro-industrial trade, tourism, and cultural
affair with tribal dances and songs in full regalia.
 Begnas
(January, June, April, September, Novem
ber)
 Ethnic offering of thanksgiving for a bountiful
harvest, where pigs or chicken are butchered for
the family or clan members to partake of.
 Chom-no or Chonno
 The grandest and most expensive wedding
celebration, which usually happens once in four
or five years, where the number of carabaos
butchered reflect the economic status of the
family; accompanied by much dancing and
singing.
 IFUGAO PROVINCE
 Basic Facts
 Capital: Lagawe
 Total Land Area:
2,628.2 km2
 Total Population:
180,711
 Political Division: 11
Municipalities, 175
Baranggays
 Languages Spoken:
English, Ifugao, Iloc
ano and Tagalog
Ifugao
 Ifugao is home to a thriving
ancient culture and host to
the famous rice terraces.
 The famous terraces had
been inscribed in UNESCO’s
World Heritage List in 1995
as “a continuing cultural
landscape”
 The Ifugao native huts could
probably be among the
world’s first prefabricated
houses that do not use a
single nail or metal to fasten
their parts.
Major Industries
 Farming
 trading industry (gift, toys &
house wares)
 Services
 Manufacturing (garments &
textiles)
 Food & beverages.
Ifugao
 How to Get There:
 By Land:
 By bus via Auto
Bus, Dangwa Tranco
Bus, and KMS Bus
from Manila
 from Baguio City:
through Ohayami
Bus, Dangwa Tranco
Bus, and KMS Bus.
 Ifugao: Tourist

Attractions
Banaue Rice Terraces
 Dubbed as the "Eight Wonder of the World," the
Banaue Rice Terraces start from the base of the
mountain range and reach up to several thousand
feet high. It is said that their length, put end to
end, would encircle half of the globe.
 Made 2,000 years ago, these rice terraces
manifest the engineering skill and ingenuity of the
sturdy Ifugaos.
 Streams and springs found in the mountains were
tapped and channeled into irrigation canals that
run downhill through the rice terraces.
Batad Rice Terraces
Located at Barangay
Batad in Banaue, these
rice terraces are
shaped like an
amphitheater.
Bangaan Rice Terraces
The rice terraces cluster
and village both showcase
the typical Ifugao
community, where the
livelihood activities are
within the surroundings
Ifugao: Tourist Attractions
 Mayoyao Rice Terraces
 These rice terraces can be
found in Mayoyao, 44
kilometers away from
Poblacion, Banaue. The
poblacion of Mayoyao lies in
the midst of these rice terraces

 Hapao Rice Terraces

 More of Ifugao's world-famous
stone-walled rice terraces can
be found in the municipality of
Hungduan..
 Philippine War Memorial Shrine
 The enormous memorial shrine was built
to commemorate the end of World War II.
 A concrete pyramid-type structure that
resembles an oversized Ifugao native
house, it depicts historical events, from
Filipino opposition to Spanish rule to the
Death March, and the role of the Ifugao
and American troops in the defeat of
General Yamashita.
Ifugao: Festivals
 Banaue Imbayah
 The Imbayah ethnic sports festival is a
unique three-day affair that is
celebrated only once every four years.
 Activities include an ethnic parade
portraying the evolution of the Ifugao
culture. This is followed by ethnic
games.
 Gotad ad Kiangan
 The festival, held in Kiangan, is actually a part
of the Ifugao prestige rites.
 Traditionally involves a festive celebration filled
with singing, dancing, and drinking wine.
 Gotad ad Hingyon
 It is one special day in twelve feasts that are
celebrated by the Ifugao royal class to please
their gods.
 Modern Ifugaos celebrate Gotad in April include
cultural parades, ethno-modern sports, and a
booth competition where the best of Ifugao
crafts are displayed.