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Tuna Festival is a week-long, an annual festival celebrated in General Santos, Philippines, in the first week of September of every year. [1] The fiesta features colorful tuna-themed designed float parade showcasing marine life, along General Santos City. The Pioneer Avenue ‘Sugbahan sa Dalan’ displays grilled tuna panga (tuna collar ...
A yellowfin being weighed at the General Santos Fish Port Complex in General Santos, the center of the tuna industry in the Philippines which is the world's fourth-largest producer of canned and fresh-chilled tuna products [15] [16] Purse seining largely took over commercial tuna fisheries in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, purse seines account for ...
www.gensantos.gov.ph. General Santos, officially the City of General Santos, [note 1] and abbreviated as GenSan, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Soccsksargen, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 697,315 people making it the most populous city in Soccsksargen Region. [4]
The parent company, Century Pacific Group, Inc., was established by Ricardo S. Po, Sr. (1931–2021) on December 12, 1978 as Century Canning Corporation, whose primary business was the distribution and sales of canned and processed fish products derived from tuna, sardines, and milkfish. In 2024, Century Pacific Food entered into a multiyear ...
Soccsksargen. Coordinates: 6°30′N 124°51′E. Soccsksargen. Region XII (Central Mindanao) Region. Left to right, top to bottom: Sarangani Bay; shoreline of Lebak, Sultan Kudarat; Asik-Asik Falls in Alamada, North Cotabato; Lake Sebu; and General Santos, the Commerce and Industrial Center of Region 12. Location in the Philippines.
Poverty incidence of Batangas 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 14.41 2009 17.08 2012 19.04 2015 22.32 2018 11.43 2021 4.30 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The province of Batangas was billed as the second richest province in the Philippines by the Commission on Audit by year 2020. It has been the second richest province in the country for two consecutive years. In 2020, its provincial government ...
16 km (9.9 mi) Sarangani Bay is a bay located on the southern tip of Mindanao in the Philippines. It opens up to the Celebes Sea on the Pacific Ocean. General Santos, one of the Philippines most important cities and ports, is located at the head of the bay, making the bay one of the busiest and often the site of shipping accidents. [1]
Typhoon Bopha. Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Pablo, was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever affect the Philippine island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (282 km/h). [1] The twenty-fourth tropical storm, along with being the fourth and final super typhoon of ...