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5 unusual facts about Ilocos


Dominion Bus Lines

It operates a 24/7 service for passengers and freight (known as "waybill") between Metro Manila and northwest Luzon (the Ilocos corridor).

GV Florida Transport

It expanded more with the acquisition of Autobus Transportation's Ilocos line.

G.V. Florida Transport started its Ilocos Route when they acquired F. Franco Transit and B. Trans.

Inocencio Aniceto Transportation

It operates a 24/7 service for passengers between Metro Manila and northwest Luzon (the Ilocos corridor).

Partas

It operates a 24/7 service for passengers and freight (known as "waybill") between Metro Manila and northwest Luzon (the Ilocos corridor), with services also running to Baguio City and the Central Luzon plains (Pampanga and Nueva Ecija provinces).


F. Sionil José

The Ilocos: A Philippine Discovery by James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly magazine, Volume 267, No. 5, May 1991

Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat

On Dec.24, 2009, an Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat, BRP Nueva Vizcaya (SARV 3502), along with BRP Pampanga (SARV 003)and MT Tug Habagat (TB-271) was deployed to Cavite to conduct search and rescue operations when MV Catalyn B, a wooden hull motorized vessel collided with the fishing vessel FV Anatalia and sank some 2.8 nautical miles northwest of Limbones Island at 2:25 a.m.

The Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat is a series of four vessels in active service of the Philippine Coast Guard.

Ilocos Sur

In 1854, the province of La Unión was created out of the towns that had heretofore belonged to Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan.

Joselito Agustin

Joselito Agustin (1976 – 16 June 2010), also known as Aksyon Lito, was a Filipino journalist who worked for the DZJC radio station in Baccara, Ilocos Norte, on the island of Luzon, Philippines.

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

The bahay na bato (Tagalog, literally meaning great houses made of stone) which have stone foundations on the first floor and are made of wood on the second floor(constructed thus to withstand earthquakes), were transplanted from Manila (Tondo, Binondo and Quiapo), Quezon City, Pampanga, La Union, the Ilocos and Cagayan

San Juan, Ilocos Sur

Because it produces most of the goods made of buri leaf in the province, it is sometimes called the Buri Capital of Ilocos Sur.


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