Cebu North Road

True to its name, Cebu North Road connects the capital Cebu City to the northern cities and municipalities of Cebu province. Outside Cebu City, it is alternatively called Cebu North Hagnaya Wharf Road.

{{See also|Osmeña Boulevard}}

File:Osmeña Boulevard to Cebu Capitol (Cebu City; 09-07-2022).jpg from the Crown Regency Hotel and Towers complex]]

Cebu North Road begins at its intersection with N. Escario Street as Osmeña Boulevard, fronting the Cebu Provincial Capitol, in Cebu City.{{Cite web|url=https://dpwh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4bc4f2dc3a5644088c57de02108a8fd3|title=Road and Bridge Inventory|website=Department of Public Works and Highways|access-date=June 29, 2023}} It then turns south towards the Fuente Osmeña Circle, where it turns west as General Maxilom Avenue until the road's intersection with M.J. Cuenco Avenue and Imus Avenue, where the road turns northeast toward the former. It then crosses an intersection with Pope John Paul II Avenue/Juan Luna Avenue (N815).

As the road enters Mandaue, it continues as Lopez-Jaena Street. After going underneath the Subangdaku flyover at an intersection with Hernan Cortes Street, it continues as M.C. Briones Street. It then passes a junction with A.C. Cortes Avenue (N82) with a flyover carrying two-way through-traffic above it. After passing a junction with the United Nations Avenue (N841), it continues as the Cebu North Road. It then traverses the municipalities Consolacion, Liloan (where it begins to follow along the western coast of Cebu), and Compostela and the city of Danao.

File:Catmon Municipal Hall (Cebu North Road, Catmon, Cebu; 01-17-2023).jpg]]

At the vicinity of the D.T. Durano Memorial Integrated School past the Danao city proper, the route transitions from N8 to N810. The road then passes through the towns of Carmen, Catmon, Sogod (where it veers away from the western coast to cut through the mountains of Cebu), Borbon, and Tabogon before entering the city Bogo. In Bogo, the road turns west towards San Remigio. At a junction with the Antonio y De Pio Highway (N820) in San Remigio proper, the roads turns north, initially following the northeastern coast of Cebu. It terminates at the Port of Hagnaya, which has ferries linking Cebu island with Santa Fe in Bantayan Island and Cawayan in Masbate.

The entire road historically forms part of Cebu Island's Highway 1 or Route 1 during the 20th century.{{cite map |author = |title =NC 51-7 Cebu City |trans-title = |map = |map-url = |date = |year = 1954 |url = https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/philippines/txu-oclc-6539351-nc51-7-450.jpg |scale = 1:250,000|series = |publisher = Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers |cartography = |page = |pages = |section = |sections = |inset = |edition = |location = Washington D.C. |language = |format = |isbn = |id = |access-date = June 29, 2023 |archive-url = |archive-date =}}{{cite map |author = |title =NC 51-3 Bogo |trans-title = |map = |map-url = |date = |year = 1954 |url = https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/philippines/txu-oclc-6539351-nc51-3-450.jpg |scale = 1:250,000|series = |publisher = Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers |cartography = |page = |pages = |section = |sections = |inset = |edition = |location = Washington D.C. |language = |format = |isbn = |id = |access-date = June 29, 2023 |archive-url = |archive-date =}}

The road's eastern section in Cebu City was historically known as Calle Enrile (in honor of Governor-General Pasqual Enrile y Alcedo) and later Calle de los Martires (for being the site where Katipuneros and civilians were ordered killed after the Battle of Tres de Abril in 1898). On March 23, 1964, it was renamed to M.J. Cuenco Avenue after Cebuano politician Mariano Jesús Cuenco, by virtue of City Ordinance No. 462.{{ cite news |last=Oaminal |first=Clarence Paul |date=September 2, 2013 |title=M.J. Cuenco Avenue, Cebu City |url=https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2013/09/02/1162611/mj-cuenco-avenue-cebu-city |newspaper=The Freeman|accessdate=June 30, 2023 }}

{{PHLinttop|append=Intersections are numbered by kilometer posts, with Cebu Provincial Capitol in Cebu City designated as kilometer zero.}}

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|km=0.88

|road={{Jct|country=PHL|N|8|name1=Osmeña Boulevard/Natalio Bacalso Avenue|road|B. Rodriguez Street / Don Gil Garcia Street}}

|notes=Roundabout

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|km=3.6

|road={{Jct|country=PHL|N|815|name1=Pope John Paul II Avenue, Juan Luna Avenue}}

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|hucicc=Mandaue

|lspan=2

|km=7.2

|road={{jct|country=PHL|N|82|name1=A.C. Cortes Avenue}}

|notes=Crossing traffic is carried by Maguikay Flyover.

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|km=8.27

|road={{jct|country=PHL|N|841|name1=United Nations Avenue}}

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|province=Cebu

|pspan=4

|provdab=Cebu

|location=Liloan

|km=8.22

|road={{jct|country=PHL|N|840|name1=S.A. Lauron Avenue, Cansaga–Tayud Road}}

|notes=

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|provdab=Cebu

|location=Danao

|km=33.45

|place=Route change from N8 to N810

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|provdab=Cebu

|location=San Remigio

|lspan=2

|km=107.05

|road={{jct|country=PHL|N|820|name1=Antonio y De Pio Highway}}

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{{PHLint

|km=109.34

|road={{jct|country=PHL|extra=ferry}} Port of Hagnaya

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Category:Roads in Cebu