ShareThisBOSTON, Davao Oriental — An advocate for environmental protection, Davao Oriental Rep. Nelson Dayanghirang authored a landmark legislation that would further protect the Aliwagwag Falls, which is considered to be the highest waterfalls in the country.
House Bill No. 2455 seeks to make the Aliwagwag Falls located in the municipalities of Boston and Cateel, province of Davao Oriental and the municipality of Compostela, province of Compostela Valley as a protected landscape and its peripheral areas as buffer zone, providing for its management and for other purposes.
It is now pending at the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
Dayanghirang, the House Vice Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, is optimistic that his proposal would get the nod of his colleagues.
Aliwagwag Falls is the highest waterfalls in the country, measuring 1,110 feet tall or 388 meters high. The cascade has 13 rapids and looks like a stairway with 84 steps of varying heights. This towering waterfall is regarded as one of the most beautiful falls not only in Mindanao but in the entire archipelago as well. It is situated in the middle of a virgin forest.