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unusual facts about Miag-ao, Iloilo



Antonio Ledesma Jayme

This occurred during a time when the Chinese mestizos of Jaro and Molo in Panay Island were forced to search for better business opportunities aside from Iloilo's declining textile industry, brought about by cheap imports from mainland China.

Baye baye

A specialty of Pavia, Iloilo, it is made from grated young coconut mixed with either ground corn kernels or ground pinipig (young rice).

Bulabog Putian National Park

Bulabog Putian National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in the municipalities of Dingle and San Enrique, Iloilo in Panay Island.

CPU TV

CPU Channel is airs and streams provincial wide on Channel 08 on Sky Cable in Iloilo province and via the website of Central Philippine University

Dumangas, Iloilo

Similar to Count Vlad III Dracula of Transylvania in Vampire stories, the most popular characters are the clan of Teñente/ Tenyente/ Tiniente Gimo of the town of Dueñas, Iloilo.

DYFM

Bombo Radyo Iloilo is the flagship AM commercial radio station owned and managed by Consolidated Broadcasting System, Inc. under Bombo Radyo Philippines.

DYPV

The pioneer FM radio station in Pavia, Iloilo first hit the airwaves as Radyo Natin 92.7 way back on January 15, 2002.

Francisco Guilledo

While in Iloilo, he befriended a local boxer and together they migrated to Manila, settling in Tondo.

Iloilo-Negros Air Express

Later, with flights to San Francisco, Shanghai, and India, it became the country’s first international airline service.

It is also being the first Filipino airline to go regional and international offering routes to Hong Kong, Bangkok, San Francisco, Shanghai, and India.

Josefa Iloilo

The Great Council of Chiefs met at the Tradewinds Convention Centre in Lami on 8 March and re-elected Iloilo to another five-year term.

Lex Tupas

He is the youngest son of Iloilo Governor Niel Tupas (formerly a Municipal Mayor of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo; Assemblyman of Western Visayas or region VI; and was also Congressman of the 5th District of the Province of Iloilo) and former Municipal Mayor Myrna Causing Tupas of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo.

Magnolia Ice Cream

The company expanded and modernized in the early 1990s, with three new plants including one in Iloilo, part of a P25 billion investment plan.

Mandurriao Airport

Mandurriao Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Mandurriao, Hiligaynon: Hulugpaan sang Mandurriao), also known as Iloilo Airport during its operation, was the main airport serving the area of Iloilo City and the province of Iloilo in the Philippines.

Melchor F. Cichon

Cichon is also the Head of the Readers Services Section of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Miag-ao, Iloilo.

Miag-ao, Iloilo

The town holds their patronal fiesta in honor of St. Thomas of Villanova (more commonly known as Sto. Tomas de Villanueva) every September 22 that lasts several days.

Negros Revolution

By that time, Aniceto Lacson, a rich landlord of Talisay City had joined the Katipunan, and Juan Araneta, Rafael Ramos, Carlos Gemora, Venura, and other leaders of what would become the revolution of 1898 were negotiating with their comrades in Iloilo and were arming themselves.

Papa Isio

Magbuelas was the son of migrants from Panay, either Antique or San Joaquin, Iloilo, who cleared a small piece of land in the forests of Himamaylan.

People's Reform Party

Arthur Defensor, Sr. ran for the governorship of Iloilo and won the polls, he also caucuses with the Nacionalista Party and Lakas-Kampi-CMD.

Puerto Princesa

Puerto Princesa is accessible by direct flights from the major Philippine cities Manila, Cebu, Davao and Iloilo as well as Busuanga and El Nido and the Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu.

Rural Bank of Marayo

and Banate Iloilo, Rural Bank of Marayo has helped in the development of the town of Banate in Iloilo and its home town in Pontevedra Negros Occidental.

Sergio Osmeña III

He studied his secondary studies at the St. Clement’s College in Iloilo, Ateneo de Manila and Beaumont College in Berkshire, England.

Strong Republic Nautical Highway

The SRNH segment between Manila and Iloilo runs by road to Batangas City, by ferry to Calapan, by road to Roxas, Oriental Mindoro, by ferry to Caticlan (gateway to Boracay, located in Malay, Aklan) and onwards by road to Iloilo City.


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