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4 unusual facts about Panay


Alicia P. Magos

Dr. Magos started her work on the Sugidanon (to tell), the epics of Panay in 1992 through a grant from the French government.

Fred Carillo

He began his career drawing propaganda material for the guerrilla movement in Panay during World War II.

Guillermo Capadocia

However, in late 1949 he went underground to lead the Huks on the island of Panay.

Magdalena Jalandoni

Her works span from the coming of Malay settlers in the Middle Ages up to the Spanish and American colonial era as well as the Japanese occupation of World War II, all portraying the history of Panay and the evolution of the Ilonggo culture.


Alicia P. Magos

She had extensive and published works on the culture of Western Visayas especially on the Panay Bukidnon.

Anilao

Anilao, Iloilo, a municipality on the Philippine island of Panay

Binukot

Binukot (Hiligaynon: confined, secluded or restricted) is a cultural practice among the people of Central Panay or the Panay Bukidnon to keep women from public eye from early childhood.

Bronchocela cristatella

Bronchocela cristatella, also known as the green crested lizard, is an agamid lizard found in Southeast Asia: Malaysia (West Malaysia and Borneo), Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines (Palawan, Calamian Islands, Panay, Luzon), South Thailand, south Myanmar (Tenasserim Hills), and India (Nicobar Islands).

Fon Huffman

The Japanese attack and sinking of the Panay in the Yangtze was captured on camera by Universal news reporter, Norman Alley.

Hiligaynon

the Hiligaynon people, a people indigenous to the Philippine island of Panay

Indigo-banded Kingfisher

There are two subspecies, the nominate race, which occurs on Luzon, Polillo, Mindoro, Sibuyan and Ticao, and A. c. nigriostris, which is found in Panay, Negros and Cebu.

Land reform in the Philippines

As the 19th Century progressed, industrialization and liberalization of trade allowed these encomiendas to expand their cash crops, establishing a strong sugar industry in the Philippines on such islands and Panay and Negros.

Miguel López de Legazpi

In 1569, due to scarcity of food provisions in Cebu, Legazpi transferred to Panay and founded a second settlement on the bank of the Panay River.

Office of the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines

The office drew up defense plans for the islands of Luzon, Cebu, Negros, Panay, Leyte, Mindanao, Bohol, Mindoro, and many of the smaller islands.

Panay Liberation Day

As part of that campaign, the Battle of the Visayas began on March 18, 1945 with the Allied landing at Tigbauan, Iloilo on Panay.

The planners chose to seize the western portion, including northwestern Negros and Panay island, during Operation VICTOR I. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, the Eighth Army commander, appointed the 40th Infantry Division, a California National Guard formation and veterans of the recent Battle of Luzon, under Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush, with the 503rd Airborne Regimental Combat Team in reserve.

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.

Rafflesia speciosa

speciosa was discovered in the mountains of Sibalom Natural Park (particularly Mount Porras) in Antique, Panay by members of an outdoor club.

Visayan Hornbill

The Visayan Hornbill (Penelopides panini) is a hornbill found in rainforests on the islands of Panay, Negros, Masbate, and Guimaras, and formerly Ticao, in the Philippines.

This species has just been imported from Panay in the Philippines by Chester Zoo, England.


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