2010, May 28. Bitaog Tree
Centennial
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Oldest tree now a tourist
destination
The country's oldest tree is now officially a tourist
destination, after the Department of Tourism installed a tourist
center near the 500-year-old Bitaog tree in Magallanes, Agusan del
Norte.
Officials of the provincial government of Agusan del Norte and the
Department of Tourism inaugurated the tourist center to accommodate
some 200 daily visitors in the village of Calocan in Magallanes to
view the tree, which in June 1998, was declared Philippine
Centennial Tree.
Local historian Florante More, who nominated
the Bitaog tree (Calophyllum inophyllum) as the oldest tree in 1998,
said the trunk of the tree measures 290 centimeters in diameter.