Las Navas

The people warmly met him as a high-ranking Official of the Spanish Armed Forces with full respect and high regard to the Government.Generally, the people speak Waray-Waray language as a common dialect, while English and Pilipino is used only as medium of instructions in schools and other types of communications.Poverty incidence of Las Navas Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] The municipality is basically an agricultural area with rice production as a major activity.The road and Las Navas bridge were formally inaugurated by President Gloria Mcapagal Arrroyo on June 16, 2009.Before President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo inaugurated the Las Navas Bridge connecting the municipality to the national road system, Las Navas used to be an isolated municipality and was mainly accessible through water navigation along the Catubig river with the use of motorized wooden boats and bancas.Within the municipality, travel between baranggays closer to the poblacion is now made possible through motorcycles and pedicabs using the local farm-to-market road system.For far-flung baranggays that are not connected to the local farm-to-market road network, small motorboats and bancas are still used today for travel from the barangays to the poblacion.Girlie Drugstore is the only operational pharmacy in the area, located at La Purisima Street, Poblacion.Fifteen kilometers upstream on Catubig River from poblacion, the most famous waterfalls in Northern Samar, known as the "Pinipisakan Falls", majestically towers as the main tourist attraction of the municipality.Pinipisakan Falls was formally designated as a top provincial tourist attraction on August 18, 2009, with the SINP-DENR present for the groundbreaking and inauguration of the place as an ecotourism destination.The Our Lady's Nativity Church was also recently renovated and has a postcard-pretty neo-European facade that attracts multiple selfies every day.
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