Share on facebook
Facebook
Share on twitter
Twitter
Share on email
Email

Giant cock building enters Guinness World Records

• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO

The 115-feet tall structure in the shape of a chicken at Campuestohan Highland Resort in Talisay City, Negros Occidental is now in the Guinness World Records.* Campuestohan photo

The rooster structure of Cano “Guapo” Tan at Campuestohan Highland Resort in Talisay, Negros Occidental, has made it to the Guinness World Records.

The 115-feet tall structure has been formally declared by the Guinness World Records, “the largest building in the shape of a chicken.”

The facility will be inaugurated on Saturday after a 9 a.m. mass. It has 15 rooms, a sky deck and has15 steps. Its construction took about 456 days to complete.

Fighting cock or game fowl breeding is the second largest industry in Negros Occidental, next to sugar. It has provided livelihood to thousands of locals and sustained the province when the sugar industry suffered a crisis. So, he designed the structure in the shape of a chicken to recognize the industry’s contribution to the province, Tan said.

Out of the 55,000 applicants in the Guinness World Records this year, only 5,000 were approved. Their chicken was one of those, he said.

Tan believes that the building in the shape of a chicken is the first and only in the Philippines and even considered an icon of the country. Nobody else was able to achieve this, he said, adding that he could also be the only private individual to do it.

Meanwhile, Tan said they will be adding another attraction in Campuestohan, the longest chasing slide, measuring 150 meters long. It will be another first.

He is happy and satisfied with everything he has done at Campuestohan Highland Resort, which he opened in 2012, Tan said.

“It is my dream to leave a legacy to the people of Negros,” he added.*

ARCHIVES

Read Article by date

February 2025
MTWTFSS
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728 

Get your copy of the Visayan Daily Star everyday!

Avail of the FREE 30-day trial.