The Pamitinan Protected Landscape is situated in the sitio of Wawa within the jurisdiction of the barangay of San Rafael in the mountainous eastern section of Rodriguez, formerly the municipality of Montalban. It is centered on the high water gap carved by the Marikina River in the southern Sierra Madre of northern Rizal province. The Montalban Gorge, also known as Wawa Gorge, has been a popular tourist destination since the Colonial Era and was widely regarded as one of the most remarkable natural features of Oriental scenery in the early 1900s. It is ringed by a series of marble boulders, limestone crags and up to tall white rock walls. The gorge separates the high Mount Pamitinan on the north from the high Mount Binacayan on the south with the Wawa Dam and Marikina River running between them.