Butuan City has the Country's Oldest Living Tree (Bitaog Tree)
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(DSC02706) 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. About 200 tourists visit daily the village of Caloc-an 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. The Bitaog tree, however, is much younger compared to the oldest known tree in the world, a Great Basin bristlecone pine located in California's White Mountains and is popularly known as the Methuselah tree. It is believed to be more than 4,700 years old. (Taken from http://bookofpinoy.blogspot.com/2008/02/ oldest-tree-in-philippines.html)
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