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The Pagsanjan Gorge National Park is a national park and tourist zone located in the province of Laguna in the Philippines, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast of Manila. It protects an area of 152.64 hectares (377.2 acres) around a series of gorges on the Bumbungan River which leads to Pagsanjan Falls .
Pagsanjan Falls, also known as Cavinti Falls (local name: Magdapio Falls), is one of the most famous waterfalls in the Philippines. Located in the province of Laguna , the falls is one of the major tourist attractions of the region.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
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Pagsanjan (pronounced PAG-sang-han), officially the Municipality of Pagsanjan (Tagalog: Bayan ng Pagsanjan), is a municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,327 people. [3] Pagsanjan is the tourist capital of Laguna and is the home of the Bangkero Festival held every March.
Its old name, Pinagsangahan, which literally means branching, was changed to Pagsanjan during the Spanish Colonial Era. [4] The Bumbungan River originates from the Sierra Madre mountains, in the highlands of Cavinti, flowing through Pagsanjan and ending in Lumban where it drains to Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the country.
Pagsanjan Arch also known as Puerto Real or Arco Real is a historic town gate of Pagsanjan, Laguna, Philippines built from 1878 to 1880 under the supervision of Fray Cipriano Bac. The arch was built by the people of Pagsanjan to express gratitude to their patroness, the Our Lady of Guadalupe , from protecting the town from bandits in 1877.
The facade of Pagsanjan church is a three-level early Renaissance styled facade with a semicircular arched main entrance, choir loft window and a three-story bell tower. [1] A side chapel near the altar houses an image of San Juan Diego , a replica of the tilma of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and a stone relic from Tepeyac Hill , Mexico City in ...