Argao at 400

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For visitors with a streak of adventure, a trek to Bugasok falls in Barangay Conalum, one of Argao’s mountainous villages, is a must.
A national treasure, Bugasok can be reached by walking upriver along forested cliffs and solid boulders. One may be blessed to see unique birds and fauna. (View photos of Bugasok [...]

Rosario Sarmago, at 78, is by all counts old but she lives in a house that is even older, in the town of Argao in Cebu.
Having survived for over a hundred years, her ancestral home, built during the Spanish period, has stood witness to the love and lives of four generations of Sarmagos.

One has only to step inside the old walled complex in Argao to admit its claim of 400 years of township is not without basis. One has only to gaze at the massive stone archway called the Ganghaan sa Hari o Puerta Real (Entrance Way of the King) to know the place reeks of history. [...]

Although still a second class municipality in the province of Cebu, Argao leads other local governments in implementing the full computerization of business processes.
Argao Mayor Edsel Galeos said that with the system in place, he only has to open his computer after 5 p.m. and he would already know how much the town has spent [...]