Maria Cristina Falls in the philippines
Maria Cristina Falls is a waterfall of the Agus River on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It is sometimes called the "twin falls" as the flow is separated by a rock at the brink of the of City of Majestic Waterfalls, because of the presence of more than 20 waterfalls in the city. Maria cristina falls is located 9.3 kilometers away southwest of the city proper at the boundaries of Barangays Maria Cristina, Ditucalan, and Buru-un.Maria Cristina is also known for its natural grandeur, the 320 - feet (98 meters) high waterfall is also the primary source of electric power for the city's industries, being harnessed by the Agus VI Hydroelectric Plant. Maria Cristina is also become the attraction of the local tourist and also to the foreigners that visited the Mindanao. In the legend of Iliganon ancestors, Maria Cristina has a story about her lover San-i. Maria Cristina is the adopted daughter of Datu Talim. Because of its possessed beauty, she was loved and fancied by the Datu and treated her like his own daughter. As the time comes, Maria Cristina had grown to be a very beautiful woman and because of that Datu Talim became more popular. Lots of people like Maria Cristina and wanted to court her but Datu Talim was so protective. But since he love Maria so much, he could not say no it. Maria needs to be happy also. A young man name prince San-i who happen to be very sincere in courting the Maria, a brave, smart and talented young man and is a pure royal blood. Maria Cristina fall in love with the prince and felt so much happiness whenever they are together which lead the two to get married. So prince San-i together with his father visited Datu Talim and asked the hands of Maria. And because Datu Talim wish nothing but the happiness of Maria, he agreed and the grand wedding ceremony were set. While both parties are all busy preparing for the wedding, the lovers meet each other and talked about their future together. But unknown to both of them, there was a witch who was already in love with prince San-i and get very jealous to Maria Cristina. The witch wanted to stop the wedding and she could not think of anything but to curse the prince and Maria that their wedding will not going to happen. Two nights before the scheduled wedding of Maria and Prince San-i, Maria remembered her mother which she had not seen for a long time. She went to the place where she and the prince used to see each other and there she cried a lot because she longed to see her mother. Even though prince San-I had already promised to her that they will visit her mother after the wedding, still she could no help herself in missing her mother. She closed her eyes and played in her thoughts the memories she had together with her parents when she was still a child. At that time, the ugly witch who was in love with the prince came through her back and Maria thought it was her fiance and upon opening her eyes she was surprised when she saw the ugly woman. "Did you know that San-i is mine?" Your wedding to him is not going to happen. Go ahead, continue to shed your tears," the witch said. Maria cried even more because she didn't realize that in her happiness together with prince San-i, an outraged heart is in despair. "On the day of your marriage, you will never be seeing San-i anymore. You took him away from me. Go ahead continue to shed your tears, few hours before your wedding ceremony, you will become a mountain. Your tears will flow to the village and towards the sea," according to the witch who was very angry. The wedding ceremony had arrived and the families of both parties were surprised because Maria Cristina didn't arrive at the wedding. They tried to look for her and after a few hours of searching, they noticed something new in the village, there was a new mountain that shed a tears. It's tears flow towards the city and form a river. "Where is Maria Cristina, what will happen to their wedding?" asked the villagers. "Hahaha! That weeping mountain is no other than Maria Cristina. I cursed her because she tooked San-i away from me. The stream of her tears will continue towards the city and will become a river," the witch said. Datu Talim together with all the villagers was so angry, they ran over to the witch and wished to kill her but the witch ran faster to the woods and since then, the ugly witch never showed her face to the village. Since then, the weeping mountain were named as Maria Cristina Falls.