ABOUT LAGUNA

LAGUNA, PHILIPPINES, 30 kilometers south of Manila, a province named after the biggest lake in the Philippines and the second biggest lake in Asia.  Laguna de Bay, is really a lake, not a bay, but due to its size, some 900 square kilometers, it had earned the name Bay.  It provides the residents of the province that inhabit the lake from east, west, and south of it.  It feeds numerous rivers and receives flows from numerous rivers too.  Hence, "Ilog" or river in English is abundant around. 

It could be said that this is the lake that defined the region "Tagalog" which was derived fro m the words, "taga Ilog" or "from the river"

The province has 29 towns.  It is considered the richest and most beautiful province of the whole Philippines.  It's history and culture is rich.  The province is bordered by the Sierra Madre mountains in the east, Mt. Banahaw and Mt. Makiling in its mid section.  It is has rich plains irrigated by the rivers that flows from the mountains, that also provides hot springs that defined laguna as the resort capital of the Philippines.  It's adjacent neighboring provinces are Quezon on the east, Batangas on the south, Cavite on the west and Rizal on the north.

Lansones, a grape sized fruit with leathery skin that turns yellow when ripe has translucent cloves that is more sweet  than sour is very popular.  Wooden shoes, cakes, coconuts are plentiful, rice fields, "tuba" and "lambanog", local wine and liquor respectively are best when they are made from Laguna.  "Buko pie" , a pie made from young coconuts is being heralded as the American equivalent of (if not better) Apple pie.

It goes without saying that language spoken is Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, but foreigners could communicate in English anywhere.  Laguna is busting in its' seems due to progress and the government is trying hard to keep up.  Pollution and traffic jams is all but too common these days due to the industrial boom of the 90's.

It could be said that this is the lake that defined the region "Tagalog"

Pagsanjan Falls in Laguna

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