Porac
Porac, officially the Municipality of Porac, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines.
Porac, officially the Municipality of Porac, is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 147,551 people.
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Worth seeing in and around Porac
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pio Chapel
San Vicente Ferrer Chapel, commonly known as Pio Chapel, is a Roman Catholic chapel located at Barangay Pio, in Porac, Pampanga. It is under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of San Fernando.
3.7 km · church in Pampanga, Philippines · Wikipedia - 02Santa Catalina de Alejandria Church
Saint Catherine of Alexandria Parish Church, commonly known as Porac Church, is a 19th-century Baroque Roman Catholic church located at Barangay Poblacion, Porac, Pampanga, Philippines. The parish church is currently under the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of San Fernando.
200 m · church in Pampanga, Philippines · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Santa Catalina de Alejandria Church
- 02Mount Pinatubo
Inevitably associated with the town, the volcano is the biggest draw in the area, particularly its crater lake and the lunar landscapes created along its gullies following the 1991 eruptions.
- 03Dara Falls
Its name was shortened because its last syllables are also the Filipino word for pubic hair.
- 04Pio Chapel
- 05Miyamit Falls
A waterfall on the Mount Pinatubo massif.
- 06Tutulari Avatar Gorge
A gorge named in part because it resembles the setting from the film Avatar (the one with blue aliens).
From Wikivoyage: Porac, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Sandbox
Alviera (At the vicinity of SCTEX Porac Exit), info@alviera.ph.
From Wikivoyage: Porac, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Nasi Ya
Angeles-Porac-Floridablanca-Dinalupihan Road, Jalung, nasiyaporac@yahoo.com.
- 02Wings City
Angeles-Porac-Floridablanca-Dinalupihan Road, Purok 1, Santa Cruz, wingscityporac@gmail.com.
From Wikivoyage: Porac, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Porac
- Airports
- Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 13 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 42 km · Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 81 km
- Olongapo → Porac39 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · ₱120–160
- Manila (Pasay) → Porac76 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · ₱220–295
- Laoag City → Porac348 km · quickest by road, 9h 1m · ₱960–1,280
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Porac
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Porac. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThose using public transportation usually switch vehicles in Angeles and take jeepneys traversing the Angeles-Porac-Floridablanca-Dinalupihan Road.
- Get inThere are also jeepneys running from Guagua to Porac via Santa Rita and from San Fernando via FVR Megadike and Bacolor.
From Wikivoyage: Porac, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Porac – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Porac
Porac is 10 km from Angeles City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.