Yvonne Zaulda- Alicia,Isabela

 

Alicia (a.k.a. Angadanan Viejo) is now a 1st class municipality in the province ofIsabela, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 61,447 people in 11,413 households.
The town sits on a vast area of predominantly flat and fertile land in the Cagayan Valleythat surrounded by the Caraballo Mountains to the south, the Great Sierra Madre to the east and the Cordillera Mountain Range to the west. It is the largest rice producer in the entire Cagayan Valley and has the largest irrigated rice field in the whole Region II of the Philippines.
Alicia, the old town of Angadanan, is known for the Pagay Festival and its famous historical landmark, the Our Lady of Atocha Church completed and inaugurated in 1849 which was officially declared by the Philippine Department of Tourism as one of the national religious tourist destinations in the Philippines