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The Wawa River (Tagalog: Ilog Wawa; Cebuano: Suba sa Wawa) is a river located in Caraga, in northeastern Mindanao, the southern Philippine island. Its headwaters traverse the municipalities of Sibagat, Bayugan, and Esperanza (all within the province of Agusan del Sur). The Wawa River is a tributary of the larger Agusan River.
Wawa Dam, also known as Montalban Dam, [1] is a gravity dam constructed over the Marikina River in the municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines. [2] The slightly arched dam is situated in the 360-metre (1,180 ft) high Montalban Gorge or Wawa Gorge, [3] a water gap in the Sierra Madre Mountains, east of Manila.
The Battle of Wawa Dam (Filipino: Labanan sa Dam ng Wawa), also known as the Seizure of Wawa Dam (Filipino: Pag-agaw sa Dam ng Wawa), was the side action during the Battle of Manila, yet the longest continuous combat during the Liberation of the Philippines, to secure the vital water sources east of the capital from February 20 – May 31, 1945, and was the critical battle that neutralized the ...
The Bocaue Pagoda Festival, also known as the Bocaue River Festival, is an annual religious celebration in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. It is best known for its river procession dedicated to the Catholic relic , the Holy Cross of Wawa ( Tagalog : Krus sa Wawa ).
Wawa River, a tributary of the Marikina River, in the Rizal province of the Philippines Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
The town is strategically located along a river which played a vital role in trade and transportation during the precolonial era. Wawa was already a prosperous settlement when Spanish colonists took control of the town in the year 1561, from then on calling it Guagua, which is a Hispanised form of the original name. Indeed, archeological ...
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Sibagat River and Wawa River and its surrounding areas were also declared a nature reserve by establishing the Sibagat-Wawa Forest Reserve (SWFR) as proclaimed by virtue of Philippine Presidential Proclamation No. 308 dated September 3, 1964 for wood production, watershed management, soil protection, and other forest uses containing an area of ...