Awichon Cultural Village

Awichon Cultural Village is a preserved traditional Kalinga settlement in Barangay Upper Uma, Lubuagan, Kalinga Province, Cordillera Administrative Region, northern Luzon. Maintained as a living heritage site, it showcases authentic Kalinga architecture with elevated wooden houses, dap-ay stone gathering circles, and rice granaries. The village is notable for its efforts to preserve Kalinga customs, crafts, and community layout, offering visitors insight into indigenous Cordilleran heritage within a mountainous rural setting.

Visitors can expect a compact hillside village of traditional Kalinga houses built on stilts with wooden walls and cogon roofs, arranged around stone-paved dap-ay and open yards. The setting is rural and mountainous with views of surrounding valleys and terraces. Visitors can walk along stone paths, observe traditional architecture including alang rice granaries, see local weaving and crafts, and learn about community layout and daily life from local guides. The village is a living community, not a theme park.

Lubuagan served as the capital of the former Kalinga sub-province during the American colonial period. Awichon Village preserves the traditional settlement pattern of the Lubuagan Kalinga, retaining indigenous house forms, dap-ay and communal structures that reflect pre-colonial social organization and governance.

The village is a living repository of Kalinga culture, showcasing traditional architecture, communal gathering spaces, and practices such as weaving and rice storage. It functions as a cultural preservation site for Cordilleran identity, demonstrating the community layout, building techniques, and social customs of the Lubuagan Kalinga people.