Boliney, officially the Municipality of Boliney ( ilo, Ili ti Boliney; tgl, Bayan ng Boliney), is a 5th class

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in the

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of Abra,

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 4,551 people. Boliney is bounded to the north by

Sallapadan Sallapadan, officially the Municipality of Sallapadan ( ilo, Ili ti Sallapadan; tgl, Bayan ng Sallapadan), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 6,389 people. Geo ...

Bucloc Bucloc, officially the Municipality of Bucloc ( ilo, Ili ti Bucloc; tgl, Bayan ng Bucloc), is a 6th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,395 people. Geography According ...

, and Daguioman, to the east by

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and the provinces of

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and

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, and to the west by of

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and

Manabo Manabo, officially the Municipality of Manabo ( ilo, Ili ti Manabo; tgl, Bayan ng Manabo), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 11,611 people. Etymology The nam ...

Geography

According to the

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, the municipality has a land area of constituting of the total area of Abra.

Barangays

Boliney is politically subdivided into 8

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s. These barangays are headed by elected officials: Barangay Captain,

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, whose members are called Barangay Councilors. All are elected every three years.

Climate

Demographics

In the 2020 census, Boliney had a population of 4,551. The population density was . The municipality's population consists of the Cordillera sub-tribes, namely Masadiit of the

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Tribes, Belwang of the Igorot and Balatoc of the Kalinga tribe. Descendants of the other Tinguian sub-tribes are also represented in Boliney such as Binongan, Banao, Maeng, Ammotan (now called Muyadan of Manabo).

Economy

The main source of livelihood of the people of Boliney comes from their

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s. But most of their rice lands were either seriously damaged or totally lost due to the landslides, mud piles, and by the killer quakes in 1990 and 1992. They get most of their rice now from Bangued, while other mountain municipalities supplied some of the rice needs of some nearby lowland municipalities. Rehabilitation have been on the communal facilities such as roads, trails, irrigation systems, footbridges and rice fields by the Masadiit Farmers Cooperative Inc. (MFCI) with the fund amounting to from the Presidential Management Staff and by the Inter NGO Disaster Relief Services (INDRS) with the fund amounting 292,516.00, from

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Government

Boliney, belonging to the lone congressional district of the province of Abra, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the councilors are elected directly by the people through an election which is being held every three years.

Elected officials

Transportation

Boliney is situated from the capital town of

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, and can be reached by road which was completed in 1974. Prior to this, it was accessible only by hiking a long mountain trail. After 1974, the road was extended by about before reaching Danac, the farthest barangay. The present-day road is now as far as the

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; however, the rest of the road has been abandoned.

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