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Palawan
Palawan (, ), officially the Province of Palawan (; ), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of . The capital and largest city is Puerto Princesa which is geographically grouped with but administered independently from the province. Palawan is known as the Philippines' ''Last Frontier'' and as the Philippines' ''Best Island''. The islands of Palawan stretch between Mindoro island in the northeast and Borneo in the southwest. It lies between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea. The province is named after its largest island, Palawan Island (), measuring long, and wide."Palawan – the Philippines' Last Frontier" ''WowPhilippines''. Acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Princesa
Puerto Princesa (, American Spanish: , European Spanish: ), officially the City of Puerto Princesa (Cuyonon language, Cuyonon: ''Siyudad i'ang Puerto Princesa''; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Mimaropa region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 307,079. It is a city located in the western Provinces of the Philippines, Philippine province of Palawan and is the Cities of the Philippines, westernmost city in the Philippines. Though the seat of government and capital of the province, the city itself is one of 38 Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities, independent cities within the Philippines not controlled by the province in which it is geographically located and is therefore an independent area located within Palawan for its geographical and statistical purposes by the Philippine Statistics Authority. It is the largest city in the province of Palawan and the Mimaropa region. It is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Nido, Palawan
El Nido, officially the Municipality of El Nido (, ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 50,494 people. A Protected area, managed resource protected area,Destination: El Nido Accessed 24, 2008. it is known for its white-sand beaches, coral reefs, and limestone cliffs, as well as for being the gateway to the Bacuit archipelago. History El Nido, also known as Bacuit, has been inhabited by humans since at least 2680 BC, possibly as early as 22,000 years ago. This was confirmed by fossils and burial sites dating back to the Neolithic, Late Neolithic Age that can be found in many caves and excavation sites surrounding the municipality, particularly in Dewil Vall ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palawan Provincial Board
The Palawan Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the Philippine province of Palawan. The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into three districts, the first district sending five members, the second sending four members, and the third district sending one member to the provincial board; the number of candidates the electorate votes for and the number of winning candidates depends on the number of members their district sends. The vice governor is the ''ex officio'' presiding officer, and only votes to break ties. The vice governor is elected via the plurality voting system province-wide. The districts used in appropriation of members is coextensive with the legislative districts of Palawan, with the exception that Puerto Princesa, a highly urbanized city, is excluded in the third district. Aside from the regular members, the board also includes the provincial federation presidents of the Liga ng mg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke's Point
Brooke's Point, officially the Municipality of Brooke's Point (), is a municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 73,994 people. The Pearl of Lao Tzu, formerly considered the world's largest pearl, was found in its waters on May 7, 1934. Etymology Brooke's Point is named after British soldier James Brooke, described as "the first white Rajah" of Sarawak and founder of the Brooke dynasty. It is believed that during one of his voyages, he landed on the tip of an island with a long narrow stretch of land inhabited by Palaweños and Muslims under the Sultanate of Sulu. During American rule, American scouts named the place Brooke's Point. The name has now come under critical review, with some branding the naming of the municipality as "white worship" and the persistence of colonial mentality amidst Filipino sovereignty. Municipal officials have also demanded that the original name of the municipality, Bonbon (som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuyo, Palawan
Cuyo, officially the Municipality of Cuyo (, ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 23,489 people. Its territory includes the western half of Cuyo Island, as well as Bisucay, Caponayan, Cauayan, Imalaguan, Lubid, Manamoc, Pamalican, Pandan, Round, and Quiminatin islands, all part of the Cuyo Archipelago. Cuyo is the oldest town in Palawan which has a culture of its own and was preserved for more than 350 years. During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, Cuyo became the second capital of Palawan after Puerto Princesa from 1873 to 1903.Cuyo , Official Website of the Province of Palawan. Accessed November 9, 2012. From the sea, Cuyo Island's first visible landmark is a lighthouse by the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busuanga, Palawan
Busuanga, officially the Municipality of Busuanga (), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,617 people. History Oral tradition has it, that the entire island of Busuanga was once the realm of a Cuyonon datu named Datu Macanas. The island was once part of the four jurisdictions of Cuyonon datus with the other three being Datu Magbanua who reigned over Cuyo archipelago, Datu Cabaylo who had Taytay and surrounding islands and Datu Cabangon reigning over south of Taytay. The town of Busuanga was created from the barrios of Concepcion, Salvacion, Busuanga, New Busuanga, Buluang, Quezon, Calawit, and Cheey of the town of Coron in 1950. Quezon was reinstated as a barangay in 2000. The history of Busuanga could well be said to date back as early as 3,000 B.C. at the time group of nomadic people were known to make such waves of immigration by way of land-bridges from the Asia mainland, some of whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culion
Culion, officially the Municipality of Culion (), is a municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 23,213 people. Culion consists primarily of Culion Island as well as 41 minor surrounding islands, as part of the Calamian group of islands. It was a former leprosarium, starting in 1906 under the American colonial regime until the American commonwealth of the Philippines era. Although leprosy on the island-town was abolished in the 1980s, it was only in 2006 when it was declared a leprosy-free area by the World Health Organization. The municipality was created by virtue of ''Republic Act No. 7193'' on February 19, 1992. In May 2017, the Philippine National Commission for UNESCO began its initiative to prepare the dossier of Culion's leprosy documentary heritage, which will be nominated in the future in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. In May 2018, the ''Culion Museum and Archives'' was officially nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorino Dennis Socrates
Victorino Dennis Macalinao Socrates (born September 21, 1961) is a Filipino politician who is the governor of the province of Palawan since 2022. Prior to this, he served as vice governor of Palawan from 2013 to 2022. Early life Socrates is a lawyer by profession. He is the son of Salvador Socrates, a former governor of Palawan who died in a plane crash while in office in 2000. His sister, Maria Nancy Socrates, is a vice mayor of Puerto Princesa. Political career He was a member of the House of Representatives representing the 2nd district of Palawan from 2010 to 2013. He also served as mayor of Puerto Princesa from 2001 to 2002, when he lost a recall election A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. Recalls ... against former mayor Edward Hagedorn. Socrates lost reelection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calauit Safari Park
Calauit Safari Park is a wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines which was originally created in 1976 as a game reserve featuring large African mammals, translocated there under the orders of President Ferdinand Marcos during his Martial Law under Ferdinand Marcos, 21-year rule of the country. Today, populations of reticulated giraffe and Grévy's zebra still roam the park, while the populations of waterbuck, common eland, impala, topi, Cape bushbuck, bushbuck, and Thomson's gazelle have died out. But an expansion of the program initiated by local officials in the 1980s to conserve indigenous species has resulted in the successful conservation of Calamian deer, Palawan bearded pig, Philippine crocodile, Philippine porcupine, Binturong, and Philippine mouse-deer. The park is located in Calauit Island, a island in the Calamian Islands chain that lies off the coast of Palawan in the Mimaropa region. History Conceptualization The first historically documented discussions regarding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Mantalingajan
Mount Mantalingajan (or Mantalingahan or Mantaling) is the highest mountain in the island province of Palawan in the Philippines, with an elevation of above sea level, its ranked List of islands by highest point, 68th-highest peak of an island on Earth and List of Ultras of the Philippines, 10th-most prominent mountain in the Philippines. Located in the southern part of Palawan Island that forms the highest part of the Beaufort Mountains Ultramafics geological region, a series of ultramafic outcrops of Eocene origin, of which Mount Victoria (Palawan), Mount Victoria forms the largest contiguous land area. The peak of the mountain is the highest point on Palawan island. The mountain forms the center of the Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL), a National Park, national park covering the entire Mantalingahan Mountain Range. The protected area status of MMPL was proclaimed on June 23, 2009, by virtue of ''Proclamation No. 1815''. The protected area covers an area of . Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagayancillo
Cagayancillo, officially the Municipality of Cagayancillo (), is a municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 6,884 people. Located between the islands of Palawan and Negros in the Sulu Sea, Cagayancillo is the closest settlement to the Tubbataha National Marine Park. The word Cagayancillo is Spanish meaning "Little Cagayan". History The island was known to the first Spanish settlers in the Archipelago simply as ''Cagayan''. They describe this territory as "two low islets about fifteen leagues from the island of Panay". They ruled these islets from the town of Arevalo in Iloilo by sailing south-southeast from this part of Panay, to the open sea. The islands are surrounded by many low reefs. But the Spaniards were able to discover their narrow entry, avoiding potential shipping hazards.Miguel de Loarca, Relacion de las Yslas Filipinas (Arevalo: June 1782) in BLAIR, Emma Helen & ROBERTSON, James Alexander, eds. (190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coron, Palawan
Coron, officially the Municipality of Coron (), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Palawan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 65,855 people. The main population center of the municipality is composed of Poblacion barangays 1 to 6, where the Municipal Building, the Municipal Legislative Building, and the Judicial Hall of the Municipal Circuit Trial Court are located. Its fiesta is held annually on August 28 in honor of Saint Augustine. It is the commercial capital of the Calamian Islands. The municipality is home to the Coron Island Natural Biotic Area, which is listed in the natural category of the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. History The Calamian Islands were originally inhabited by the Tagbanuas, Calmiananen, and Cuyonon tribes. Oral history tells that the Datu Macanas ruled the entire Busuanga Island where present-day Coron town lies. Early on Spanish exploration of the islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
