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Carcar City Cebu
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Your
Destination Travel Guide to Carcar City Cebu Philippine |
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The
City of Carcar is 40.5 kilometers southeast of Cebu
City. Its boundaries are the Municipality of San
Francisco in the north, the Municipality of Sibonga in
the south, the Bohol Strait in the east and the
municipalities of Aloginsan and Barili in the west.
Carcar City has a population of 100,632 people. The
Heritage City of Cebu, Carcar is home to various Spanish
to American period structures. Carcar is
administratively subdivided into 15 barangays namely
Bolinawan, Buenavista, Calidngan, Can-asujan, Guadalupe,
Liburon, Napo, Ocana, Perrelos, Poblacion I, Poblacion
II, Poblacion III, Tuyom, Valencia and Valladolid. |
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Balay na Tisa in Carcar City |
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Carcar's interesting history dates back to the
pre-Spanish colonial period. the town originated
from a seaside settlement called Sialo. The
settlement was at the mouth of the Minag-a River and
the natives early contact with the Chinese traders
who frequent the place to barter goods in exchange
for farm produce.
When the Spaniards came in the middle of the 16th
century, Sialo became the town of Valladolid, named
after a town in Spain. The town's progress made it a
target of raids of moro marauders, driving villagers
to the uplands. Soon, a new settlement was
established in a site, which came to be known as
Kabkad, from the word Kabkaban, a species of hardy
fern that was aboundant in the place. Later on, a
Spanish priest changed the name to Carcar, after a
small town in the province of Navarro in Northern
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Carcar
is known as "Little Marikina in the South" because of
the bustling shoe-making industry in barangays Poblacion
3, Liburon, Valladolid and Perrelos. Carcar is known for
native delicacies such as sweetened rice crispies called
ampao, the sweet bocarillo made of young coconut meat
and the famous Carcar-made chicharon.
The Carcar plaza alone hosts several Heritage
structures, the Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria
dominates the area. Within the complex various
structures stand. Walking towards Sta. Catalina street
one will surely be astonished with the quaint houses and
their distinctive architectural details. Must see
destinations in Carcar include St. Catherine of
Alexandria Church, the Theotokos Shrine in Perrelos, the
Mainit-Mabugnaw National Park in Guadalupe and the old
residential houses of the Noel and Leocadio-Justine
Barcenilla families.
Getting there to
Carcar City in Cebu Province
Mini-busses, aircon and non-aircon buses as well as
vehicles-for-hire or VHire that leave for Carcar every
hour are available at the Cebu South Bus Terminal. Upon
reaching the town, tricycles, trisikads and motorcycles
called habal-habal take tourists and locals around the
town. |
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Click
here for the
Historical Background of Cebu
Philippines |
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See also the
Flight Schedules of
Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Air Philippines
from Cebu to Manila, Bacolod, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro,
Kalibo, General Santos, Puerto Princesa, Zamboanga and
Davao and vice versa. |
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