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Poverty incidence of Balaoan 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 27.80 2009 26.61 2012 12.09 2015 6.51 2018 3.2 2021 9.48 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Festivities Balaoan celebrates its Parochial Fiesta (Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Parish Church) every September 9 and 10, and the Panagyaman Festival from December 18 to 22. The Panagyaman Festival is a celebration of gratitude for the bountiful ...
Akimiski Island [1] is the largest island in James Bay (a southeasterly extension of Hudson Bay), Canada, which is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the territory of Nunavut. It has an area of 3,001 km 2 (1,159 sq mi), making it the 163rd largest island in the world , and Canada's 29th largest island .
Church local historical marker. Since 1587, Namacpacan was a visita of Purao (presently known as Balaoan). [1] In November 25, 1690, the town was founded and a parish under the advocacy of Saint Catherine of Alexandria was canonically erected. [1]
Agattu (Aleut: Angatux̂; [1] Russian: Агатту) is an island in Alaska, part of the Near Islands in the western end of the Aleutian Islands. With a land area of 85.558 square miles (221.59 km 2) Agattu is one of the largest uninhabited islands in the Aleutians. It is the second largest of the Near Islands, after Attu Island. It is volcanic ...
Monuriki in 2015. Monuriki is a small, uninhabited island situated off the coast of Viti Levu in the Fiji Islands, in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean.Monuriki is part of the Atolls islands, and related to a group of three islets in the larger group of islands known as the Mamanuca Islands.
Christianity first came to Tuvalu in 1861 when Elekana, a deacon of a Congregational church in Manihiki, Cook Islands became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before landing at Nukulaelae on 10 May 1861. [8] [9] [10] The population of Nukulaelae in 1860 is estimated to be 300 people.
Lisianski Island (Hawaiian: Papa‘āpoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a land area of 384.425 acres (155.571 ha) and a maximum elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. It is a low, flat sand and coral island about 905 nautical miles (1,041 mi; 1,676 km) northwest of Honolulu , Hawaii . [ 1 ]
Ono-i-Lau is a group of islands within a barrier reef system in the Fijian archipelago of Lau Islands (ono means "six" in the Fijian language).There are four central volcanic islands: Onolevu, Doi (or Ndoi) Lovoni and Ndavura, the uppermost parts of the volcanic edifice rising from the Lau Ridge slightly more than 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) below sea level and on which the reef and other ...