Iloilo Municipalities
Orchard Valley – Organic Farm in Pavia Iloilo
We can’t help but feel health conscious nowadays with pollution slowing putting our bodies at risk with disease such as cancer. It’s a challenge to find some fresh products without having second thoughts whether it’s contaminated with chemical fertilizers, pesticides and what not. Good thing that Iloilo Supermart have organic products readily available to ilonggos. [...]
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Football Field in Barotac Nuevo Iloilo
This quiet and unassuming town known as the Football capital of the Philippines and 2nd home of the Azkals. Barotac Nuevo gained its monicker since most of the ilonggo football players were natives of that town. What makes the football field so unique is that it faces in front of the San Antonio De Padua [...]
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Passi Iloilo
Passi History During the early days in Panay, a group of Spanish Conquistadores under Legaspi managed to find their way into the mouth of what is known as Jalaur river at Talaugis near Barotac known as the Nuevo on a mission of exploring the hinterlands of Iloilo. They rode on a unique flatboat “Sciata” (yatch) [...]
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Tigbauan Iloilo
Tigbauan is known as the Liberation Town.When the ten Borneans datus under Datu Puti landed in Panay, the families of Maglawis and Labig-isog settled at a river bank teeming with all Tigbaw reeds. So, they called their place “Katigbawan” which included the present town of San Joaquin, Miag-ao, Guimbal, Igbaras, Tubungan, Leon and Alimodian under [...]
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Miag-ao Iloilo
Miag-ao History Miag-ao became an independent municipality in 1716. It used to be a part or arrabal of several towns in the first District in Iloilo. From 1716 to the present, Miag-ao has had 133 townheads with Julieta Noble Flores as the incumbent Mayor. How it derived its name has several versions. Firstly, it [...]
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Cabatuan Iloilo
The name Cabatuan is suggestive of the character of its people and the nature of the locality. It may be derived from hiligaynon word “Kabatuhan” meaning full of stone or bato, from “batuan” meaning against, contrary or opposite, to resist, oppose, challenge, defy, fight or contest. Some old folks believed that the name was derived [...]
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