Pakaradyan Festival

Pakaradyan Festival

One of the most unique traits of Sarangani has to be the fact that it is one of the youngest provinces in the country, yet at the same time, one of the oldest. Youngest because it is just 26 years old, which created as an independent province in 1992 from South Cotabato’s coastal municipalities.

Oldest because it is host to the more than 2,000 year-old anthropomorphic man and burial jars unearthed in the remote Pinol and Ayub Caves in Maitum town. Now on display at the National Museum, it is described as an “exceptional archaeological assemblage and unparalleled in Southeast Asia”.

The Municipality of Malapatan in Sarangani Province will open on Tuesday, June 19, the 13th Pakaradyan Festival which coincides with its 49th foundation anniversary with the theme “Mapya Malapatan, Resilient, Inclusive”.