Palakpakin Lake

Palakpakin Lake has an area of 43.5 hectares and a shallow seven-meter depth. It has a calculated volume of water in storage of 1.6 million cubic meters. It is nestled among coconut tree plantations with mountains rearing against the background.

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History

A few kilometers north of the city proper was a village had become known then for its ancient tree which had a hollow trunk. The villagers had it that on moonlight nights they could see a beautiful, red-haired lady washing her long hair with the hollow trunk serving as her wash basin. The tree was called Palakpak. There was also a river nearby where a big fish appeared each night that the beautiful lady was around. The villagers would not dare catch it, beleiving that it must be her pet.

One day a stranger came to the village. He tried to solve the mystery of the red-haired lady and the big fish. And so one moonlight night he waited for her appearance. Seeing the lady in her pristine glory, the stranger approached her. All of a sudden there was a thunder and lightnin,g. The earth quaked with terrible intensity, while the river swelled alamingly into a lake.

Both the beautiful lady and the big fish were gone , but in there place was a lake that nurtured large quantity of shrimps which when cooked turned red. The material well-being of the villagers having been uplifted, they since then had affectionately called their village Palakpakin, and their principal source of livelihood, Hipong Palakpakin.