Maria Cristina Falls

The Maria Cristina Falls is one with a height of 98 m to the most remarkable waterfalls in the Philippines and is a landmark of the city Iligan. This bears the nickname City of Majestic Waterfalls (city of majestic waterfalls).

Geography

The Maria Cristina Falls is part of the Agus River, which - coming from the Lanao Lake - flows into the bay of Iligan. The river divides into two branches, one of which is the water over the Maria Cristina Falls leads, the other can fall over the Linamon waterfall.

The waterfalls are located 8.5 kilometers southwest of the city center of Iligan in Lanao del Norte Philippine province on the island of Mindanao. Besides its natural beauty and its majestic elegance, the Maria Cristina Falls also a main source of energy for industrial and applied around the entire island of Mindanao.

Mythology

There is a legend, as the cases have come to their name. After that there were once two beautiful sisters who lived near the falls. The younger was called Maria, the older Cristina. Both had very much and shared everything with each other. They loved their neighbors as themselves, since the beauty of the word spread, many men, to make them a marriage proposal, but the siblings were all reported back.

Now there was an unfortunate son of a sultan who lived near the Lanao Lake and simply could not find a woman for life. He often traveled around the lake, and one day he came to the falls and saw the two girls there. He fell in love with them, but the sisters did not know which of them he favored. Several days passed, until Mary was aware that she had fallen in love with the young man.

Since she was unclear about the feelings of the Sultan 's son, she despaired, climbed the falls and jumped from the highest point down. As Cristina learned of the death of her sister, she also climbed the falls and followed Maria into death.

When the young man by the Sisters sought, he found the dead body of the girl. He hid the bodies of the two and buried them. Among the cases Then he gave the cases the names of the two girls he had loved, and went away without marrying ever.