De la Torre was the first European to circumnavigate Mindanao and, in general, added a great deal to knowledge of the Islas de Poniente.
Born September 13, 1981, in Cotabato City, Mindanao, Philippines, Jaboneta graduated Valedictorian from high school at Notre Dame of Cotabato in 1998.
Ms. Aguilar has written more than a hundred essays, a handful of which were done when she went "underground"– first as an ordinary member, then later as head of the Regional United Front Commission of Mindanao, and last as head of the National United Front Commission of the Communist Party of the Philippines, from which she resigned in 1984.
In 1906, Alipang (Tetsu Komai) and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves.
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Abaga Falls, waterfall and ecosystem located in Mindanao, Philippines
Zaldy Ampatuan, former Governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
It is a look at the war in Mindanao between the Philippine government (during President Joseph Estrada's short stint) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), primarily through the eyes of the Bangsamoro (or Moros as they are more popularly known).
This first battle at Bayan became the rallying call of the Moros across Mindanao, with the continuing presence of American troops sparking various uprisings and attacks across the islands of Sulu, the Lanao lake and the Cotabato Basin.
On January 1, 1937 the barrio of Buenavista, by virtue of Executive Order No. 65 issued by Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon, became the Municipality of Buenavista through the efforts of assemblyman Apolonio D. Curato and Governor Jose R. Rosales, commissioner of Mindanao and Sulu Teofisto Guingona Sr., and secretary of Interior, Elpidio Quirino, with a set of appointed officials to serve for a period of one year.
In July, 1908, Lieutenant Burr of the American colonial forces was leading forty men through the Agus River in Mindanao.
Cebu Pacific Flight 387 (5J387) was a domestic Cebu Pacific air flight from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport to Lumbia Airport in Cagayan de Oro City on Mindanao Island.
Central Mindanao University is a public research university located at the heart of Mindanao Island in the Philippines, specifically at University Town, Musuan, Maramag, Bukidnon.
It was the venue for the 20th Mindanao Business Conference, which was held in September 7-9, 2011, with US Ambassador to the Philippines Harry K. Thomas, Jr. as guest of honor.
The city also boasts of Fantasyland, the first amusement park in the Visayas-Mindanao region.
Under his command, SOUTHCOM had operational control of the whole of Mindanao including Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
The precise story, as told by Antonio Pigafetta and the other witnesses, is the fleet had anchored at a tiny—about 3,930 hectares according to Ginés de Mafra--island-port named Mazaua which The Genoese Pilot said was at latitude 9° north, locating the skerry in Mindanao.
Euanthe sanderiana is endemic to Mindanao in the provinces of Davao, Cotabato, and Zamboanga where it is found on the trunks of dipterocarp trees at elevations below 500 meters.
Eucalyptus deglupta has naturally spread the furthest from its Eucalyptus genus Australian geographic origins, as the only species known growing naturally in the nearby northern hemisphere, from New Guinea to New Britain, Sulawesi, Seram Island to Mindanao, Philippines.
In 1635, upon the requests of the Jesuit missionaries and Bishop Fray Pedro of Cebu, the Spanish governor of the Philippines Juan Cerezo de Salamanca (1633–1635) approved the building of a stone fort in defense against pirates and raiders of the sultans of Mindanao and Jolo.
Recent surveys have found A. jubatus roosting with P. vampyrus on the islands of Bohol, Boracay, Cebu, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros and Polillo.
While Gray-bellies have been recorded only in the Kitanglad Mountains, the Mindanao is considered to be endemic to the mountains of the island of Mindanao and has been recorded from Mount Apo and Mount Malindang as well as from Mount Kitanglad.
This species corroborates the hypothesis that the island of Mindanao has multiple centers of endemism, of which the southeastern highland of Mount Hamiguitan is one.
The Iranun are a Moro ethnic group native to Mindanao, Philippines, and the west coast of Sabah, Malaysia (in which they are found in 25 villages around the Kota Belud and Lahad Datu districts; also in Kudat and Likas, Kota Kinabalu).
The U.S. Eighth Army of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger was directed to invade and seize the provincial capital of Palawan, Puerto Princesa, after which they would proceed to the Zamboanga Peninsula in western Mindanao and parts of the Sulu Archipelago.
Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use include the two-stringed Hegalong of the T'Boli people of Mindanao, the Kubing, the bamboo jaw harp found in various forms throughout the Philippines, and the 8-piece gong set, Kulintang, the melodical gong-rack of the indigenous peoples of the southern part of the country.
A few months later, he moved to the Philippines and took part in the aerial offensives in the Bismarck Archipelago in November and December 1944; moved up to Luzon in the Philippines in January and February 1945; then on to Mindoro and Mindanao, and finally up to the Sulu Archipelago.
He remained on duty in Puerto Rico until 1902, when he was assigned to the Philippines, including a posting to Camp Jossman and action against the Moros on Mindanao and Jolo.
Another account suggests the name derives from the word batuan, a mangosteen-related fruit common in Mindanao.
Additionally, the Samar Hornbill is often included as a subspecies of the Mindanao Hornbill.
There are over thirty-four bird species native to the area, of which more than half, such as the Mindanao Scops Owl, the Philippine Eagle-Owl, and the Blue-capped Kingfisher, prey on the Mindanao horned frog.
Mindanao State University - Tawi-tawi College of Technology and Oceanography is an autonomous campus of the Mindanao State University system located in Sanga-Sanga, Bongao, in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.
With no more torpedoes available for PT-41 to use, it was commandeered by the United States Army to patrol Lake Lanao, Mindanao.
Originally known from Mount Apo near Davao City and Mount Pasian near Bislig, it has since been discovered on a number of peaks throughout Mindanao.
Nepenthes micramphora is very similar to N. bellii of northern Mindanao in terms of the morphology of its stem, lamina, and inflorescence.
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Nepenthes micramphora is closely allied to N. abgracilis and N. cid, both also from Mindanao, and together these species comprise the informal "N. micramphora group".
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Nepenthes micramphora gives its name to the informal "N. micramphora group", which also includes N. abgracilis from northeastern Mindanao and N. cid from north-central Mindanao.
The office drew up defense plans for the islands of Luzon, Cebu, Negros, Panay, Leyte, Mindanao, Bohol, Mindoro, and many of the smaller islands.
Panaon, Misamis Occidental, a municipality on the island of Mindanao, Philippines
The development of the vaccine resulted in the elimination of rabies in many parts of the Visayas and Mindanao Islands.
The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well established group of languages spoken by the Bajau ('Sea Gypsies') and Sama (Sinama) peoples of the Philippines and Malaysia, on Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago between Borneo and Mindanao.
Sangirese, also known as Sangihé, Sangi, and Sangih, is an Austronesian language spoken on the islands linking northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, with Mindanao, Philippines by the Sangirese people.
The North Sangiric languages are spoken in the Sangir and Talaud archipelagos of Indonesia just north of Sulawesi, as well as the Sarangani Islands of the Philippines just south of Mindanao.
Cotabato contains the Rio Grande de Mindanao, which is the longest river in Mindanao and the second longest in the Philippines.
The takumbo instrument, with slight variations, is also found in northern Luzon (Isneg Bambam, Pasing; Kalingga Tambi); in Zambales (Ayta Magkunana Tabenbbeng); in Mindoro (Hanunuo Kudlong); in Mindanao (Manobo Katimbok, Tabobo; Subanun Tabobok, Thambabok); and in Palawan (Batak Patigunggung).
TV Patrol Southern Mindanao maintains a 24-hour shift of reporters, cameramen and drivers with coverage over the provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley, Southern Bukidnon and North Cotabato.
Telecommunication services are provided by the following utilities: Philcom, Sotelco, RCPI, Smart, Mobiline, Globe, Extelcom, PT&T, Philippine Postal, JRS Express, Xemex, G&A Carrier, Radio Stations:DXCP(94.5)FM, DXCR AM, DXMV AM, DXWB-FM and the new DXEM-FM and DXBP-FM, Cable TV Companies, and national and local newspapers, Kastigador Balita Mindanao.
The squadron was deactivated on August 1, 1945 at Malabang, Mindanao.
This law of only applied in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao ARMM.