The Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. Highway or simply the Sayre Highway is a four-to-six lane, , primary national highway that connects
Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
Cagayan de Oro (abbreviated CDO and officially the City of Cagayan de Oro; ; Binukid: ''Ciudad ta Cagayan de Oro''; ; ) is a highly urbanized city in the region of Northern Mindanao, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a popu ...
to
Kabacan, Cotabato
Kabacan officially the Municipality of Kabacan ( Maguindanaon: ''Inged nu Kabakan'', Jawi: ايڠد نو كباكن; ; ; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Cotabato, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 77, ...
. It traverses the provinces of
Misamis Oriental
Misamis Oriental (; ; ), officially the Province of Misamis Oriental, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province located in the Regions of the Philippines, region of Northern Mindanao in the Philippines. The provincial capital, as well as its ...
,
Bukidnon
Bukidnon (), officially the Province of Bukidnon (; ; ; Bukid language, Binukid and Higaonon language, Higaonon: ''Probinsya ta Bukidnon''), is a landlocked Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Northern Mindan ...
and
Cotabato
Cotabato, formerly and still commonly referred to as North Cotabato and officially the Province of Cotabato, is a landlocked Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Soccsksargen Regions of the Philippines, regi ...
.
The highway's name was Route 3 but was changed to Sayre Highway, in honor of
Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr., the U.S. Philippine High Commissioner who spearheaded its construction.
It extends southward through central Mindanao for a distance of about , linking the northern and southern arms of Route 1 (Digos–Butuan Highway). This section of the Philippine national highway was constructed during the
American occupation of the Philippines
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.
The parts of the highway are composed of National Route 10 (N10), a spur route of Asian Highway 26 in the north; and National Route 943 (N943) in the southern portion of the
Philippine highway network
The Philippine highway network is a network of highway, national roads owned and maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and organized into three classifications according to their function or purpose: national primar ...
.
Route description
Intersections
References
Roads in Misamis Oriental
Roads in Bukidnon
Roads in Cotabato
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