Travel #1 Davao Oriental Philippines 😊

Hi Steemians,
this is my travel with my family to my home country in Philippines. This is in Davao Region southern Philippine island.

Aliwagwag Falls
Cateel, Davao Oriental

The Aliwagwag Protected Landscape is a protected area that preserves a major drainage catchment in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao in the Davao Region. It contains the headwaters of the Cateel River in the southern Diuata Mountain Range which provides the water source and irrigation for surrounding rice fields and communities in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley provinces. It was named after the remote rural village in the municipality of Cateel where Aliwagwag Falls, the country's highest waterfall, is located.

Aliwagwag is situated in the Eastern Mindanao Biodiversity Corridor which contains one of the largest remaining blocks of tropical lowland rainforest in the Philippines. It covers an area of 10,491.33 hectares and a buffer zone of 420.6 hectares in the hydrologically rich mountainous interior of the municipalities of Cateel and Boston in Davao Oriental as well as a portion of the municipality of Compostela in Compostela Valley.

The protected landscape is composed of lowland forests, with some areas of montane and mossy forests around the peaks of the mountains. A small Mandaya community who practice slash-and-burn agriculture and plantation farming can also be found in the park's lower slopes.

Aliwagwag is accessible via the new Compostela??"Cateel Road that runs through the park and near the waterfall connecting northern Davao Oriental with Compostela. It is located just 24 km west from the Cateel Poblacion.

Aliwagwag occupies an important bird and biodiversity area in the Upper Cateel River Basin of the Agtuuganon??"Pasian mountains. Its forest is home to the Philippine eagle as well as several other threatened and endemic bird species such as the Mindanao eagle owl, Visayan miniature babbler, little slaty flycatcher and Lina's sunbird. The park also hosts the Philippine hawk-eagle, Philippine dwarf kingfisher, spotted imperial pigeon, giant scops owl, and Hombron's kingfisher. It is also home to the tallest trees in the Philippines, the Philippine rosewood, known locally as toog. In the waters of the upper Cateel River, a rare species of fish can be found called sawugnun by locals which is harvested as a delicacy.

Considered as the highest waterfalls in the country, Aliwagwag Falls is a series of 130 cascading waterfalls that looks as majestic as it is described and has 1,100 Feet.

This place is just really Heaven!

What do you think about my home country?

Thanks for reading
And thanks to my Nikon D7100 @seejc