Wawa Dam
Wawa Dam, also known as Montalban Dam, is a gravity dam constructed over the Marikina River in the municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines. The slightly arched dam is situated in the 360-metre high Montalban Gorge or Wawa Gorge, a water gap in the Sierra Madre Mountains east of Metro Manila.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Dam
- Description: dam in Montalban Gorge, Rodriguez, Rizal
- Also known as: “Lower Wawa Dam”, “Montalban Dam”, and “Old Wawa Dam”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pamitinan Cave and Pamitinan Protected Landscape.
Pamitinan Cave
Cave
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pamitinan Cave is a limestone cave in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountain range near Wawa Dam in Rizal, the Philippines. It is located in the Pamitinan Protected Landscape, in the barangay of San Rafael, municipality of Rodriguez. Pamitinan Cave is situated 340 metres northwest of Wawa Dam.
Pamitinan Protected Landscape
Nature reserve
Photo: Camillebea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Pamitinan Protected Landscape is a Philippine protected area of approximately 609 hectares in the Sierra Madre mountain range, just 34 kilometres northeast of Metro Manila.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rodriguez and San Mateo.
Rodriguez
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rodriguez, officially the Municipality of Rodriguez and still commonly known by its former name Montalban, is a municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines.
San Mateo
Town
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Mateo is a town in Rizal, Philippines. It is considered the gateway to the northern part of the province. San Mateo is situated 9 km southwest of Wawa Dam.
Wawa Dam
- Category: gravity dam
- Location: Rodriguez (Montalban), Rizal, Calabarzon, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
14.7281° or 14° 43′ 41″ northLongitude
121.19166° or 121° 11′ 30″ eastElevation
118 metres (387 feet)Inception
1909Height
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
7Q63P5HR+6MOpenStreetMap ID
way 28921776OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tagalog—“Wawa Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wawa Dam”
- Central Bikol: “Dam nin Wawa”
- Filipino: “Wawa Dam”
- Persian: “سد واوا”
- Tagalog: “Dike ng Wawa”
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