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Jolo (Tausug: Sūg) is a volcanic island in the southwest Philippines and the primary island of the province of Sulu, on which the capital of the same name is situated. It is located in the Sulu Archipelago , between Borneo and Mindanao , and has a population of approximately 500,000 people.
The Jolo Group of Volcanoes, more commonly referred to as the Jolo Group, are an active group of volcanoes on the island of Jolo in Southern Philippines. The Global Volcanism Program lists Jolo as one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines [ 1 ] while the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) collectively lists the ...
Poverty Incidence of Jolo 10 20 30 40 50 60 2000 43.02 2003 39.14 2006 43.30 2009 46.11 2012 48.37 2015 40.68 2018 58.94 2021 53.14 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Downtown Jolo Industry In Jolo, most of the residents are in the agriculture industry. Agricultural products include coconut, cassava, abaca, coffee, lanzones, jackfruit, durian, mangosteen and marang. Jolo is the only ...
The battle of Jolo, also referred to as the burning of Jolo or the siege of Jolo, [3] was a military confrontation between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the government of the Philippines [1] [4] in February 1974 in the municipality of Jolo, in the southern Philippines. [5] [2]
In 1630, another expedition was launched against Jolo with a force of 350 [4] or 400 [5] Spanish soldiers alongside 2,000 or 2,500 [6] native soldiers and an armada of 1 galley, 3 brigantines, 12 frigates, and 50 caracoas. [7] They had such considerable supplies that it was quite sufficient for another conquest, and they were led by Dom Lorenzo ...
The Mindanaons and the Sulus began raiding with their fleets the islands of Visayas to a point that its expected that they would come as far as Manila.In order to stop these raids, the Spanish governor of Philippines, Francisco de Tello de Guzmán, determined that an expedition to Sulu should be made at once without delays to subjugate the island put their sultan to obedience.
[2] [3] Basilan, Jolo, Tawi-Tawi and other islands in the group are extinct volcanic cones rising from the southernmost ridge. Tawi-Tawi, the southernmost island of the group, has a serpentine basement-complex core with a limestone covering. [3] This island chain is an important migration route for birds.
Bud Dajo (Tausug: Būd Dahu; Spanish: Monte Dajó), is a cinder cone and the second highest point (+600m) in Sulu, a province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago.It is one of the cinder cones that make up the island of Jolo and part of the Jolo Volcanic Group. [2]