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2 unusual facts about Western Visayas


Alicia P. Magos

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

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.


Hacienda Luisita

Fearing the López might become too powerful after already owning Meralco, Negros Navigation, Manila Chronicle, ABS-CBN, various haciendas in Western Visayas and then the nearby PASUMIL consortium in del Carmen, Pampanga that they purchased from the Americans, the President offered the property to José Cojuangco, nicknamed "Pepe" through Magsaysay protégé and Cojuangco's son-in-law, Benigno Aquino.

Northwest Panay Peninsula Natural Park

The site is home to a wide range of flora and fauna of the Western Visayas, as the Visayan Leopard Cat, the Visayan warty pig, the Visayan spotted deer, the Negros Bleeding-heart dove, the Blue-naped Parrot, the Visayan Hornbill, Walden's Hornbill, and the Panay monitor.


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