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There were several proposals to build bridges linking the islands in Visayas. In 1999, the Japan International Cooperation Agency created a master plan for two bridges connecting Panay, Guimaras, and Negros; the first bridge, spanning 20.6 kilometers (12.8 mi), was planned to link Leganes, Iloilo to Buenavista, Guimaras, while the second bridge also measuring 20.6 kilometers (12.8 mi) was ...
The Paraw Regatta Festival or Iloilo–Guimaras Paraw Regatta Festival is an annual festival held every third weekend of February in the Arevalo, Iloilo City, Philippines. Its main event is a sailboat race in Iloilo Strait that features the paraw, a Visayan double-outrigger sail boat. It is the oldest traditional craft event in Asia, and the ...
Manggahan Festival of Guimaras, Kasadyahan Festival Champion in 2018. The Kasadyahan Festival was first celebrated on January 26, 1968. It became part of the Dinagyang Festival in the 1980s to showcase the talents of the students as well as the rich cultural heritage of the province of Iloilo.
In 2017, the Panaad sa Negros Festival made it to the Hall of Fame of the ATOP-DOT Pearl Awards after it was adjudged by the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines as its Best Tourism Event in the Provincial Festival Category nationwide for the third consecutive year at the awards night held on October 6, 2017 at the Iloilo Convention Center in Iloilo City.
Iloilo City on Panay is the major city located on the strait with Buenavista and Jordan, both on Guimaras, immediately across the strait from the city. The Iloilo River empties into the strait. Pump boat ferries cross every few minutes from Iloilo City to Guimaras and vice versa. Ships doing business with the Port of Iloilo often moor in the ...
Iloilo City, its capital, is the center of the Iloilo–Guimaras metropolitan area or Metro Iloilo–Guimaras, and is geographically located in the province and grouped under it by the Philippine Statistics Authority, but remains politically independent from the provincial government. According to the 2020 census, the population of the province ...
Guimaras Strait connects Panay Gulf with the Visayan Sea. The Port of Iloilo is the busiest port on the gulf, which is a major route used by ships plying the areas between Iloilo City, Bacolod, and Zamboanga further to the south. [1] The Panay Landing during World War II occurred in Panay Gulf. [2]
The ISC Events-organized convention received support from the Iloilo City government for its second edition, held from July 28 to 29 in the same venue. [3] The 2019 edition was hosted at the Iloilo Convention Center with over 6,000 attendees. The convention had a two-year hiatus in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]