Region 7:

CENTRAL VISAYAS
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● Also known as
“CENTRAL VISAYAS”
Region
● Located at the heart
of the archipelago
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● Includes the
following provinces:
● Cebu
● Bohol
● Negros Oriental
● Siquijor
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Bohol
● Capital: Tagbilaran City
● Known for its beaches,
resorts, attractions and
historical landmarks.
● It is the home of the
world-famous
Chocolate Hills
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● Philippine Tarsier –
considered the second-
smallest primate in the
world, is indigenous to
the island.
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● Cebu
●Capital: Cebu City
●is considered 'the
heart of Philippine
commerce and
history‘
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● Portuguese explorer,
Ferdinand Magellan,
erected a cross to claim
the islands for the King of
Spain
●Where he was killed by
Chief Lapu Lapu
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● Negros Oriental
●Capital: Dumaguete
City
●Prominent American
colonial architecture
●Apo Island — a
popular dive site
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● Siquijor
● Capital: Siquijor City
● The Spaniards called
Siquijor Isla del
Fuego or “Island of
Fire,” because the
island gave off an eerie
glow
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● The island was first
sighted by the
Spaniards in 1565
during Miguel López de
Legaspi's expedition
● Reputation as a place
of magic and sorcery
CULINARY
FESTIVALS
 BUGWAS FESTIVAL

● The festival is San Juan’s

way of celebrating a
bountiful and abundant
harvest in honor of their
patron saint, St. Augustine
● Siquijor
BODBOD FESTIVAL

● 3rd week of December

● Gives emphasis to this
native delicacy made of
glutinous rice, coconut
milk, sugar and salt, the
Bodbod.
● Negros Oriental
Famous Regional
Dishes
Famous Regional Dishes

APAN-APAN
•shrimp appetizer with
kangkong, onion,
tomatoes, and bagoong
alamang
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SAGAKSAK
●yam snack
BINIGNIT
● yam snack in
coconut milk
BUDBOD PILIPIT
●sticky rice snack
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PUTONG PINALUTAN
●Rice cake
MASAREAL
●Peanut snack
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KALAMAY HATI
● Coconut milk candy
jam
KINATLOAN
● Egg doughnut
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TORTA VISAYA
● Tuba pastry
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SINUGBA
● Fish, chicken, or
meat is barbecued
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BAM-I
● Bam-I might have the same
ingredients with other noodle
dishes like Pancit Canton,
Pancit Bihon, and Sotanghon
Guisado, but the combination
of flour sticks and vermicelli
noodles makes this noodle
dish unique.
 Famous Regional Dishes
ARROZ A LA
VALENCIANA
●Central Visayas
version of the the
paella; rice and meat
or seafood dish
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