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Led by Datu Puti and Datu Sumakwel and sailing with boats called balangays, they landed near a river called Suaragan, on the southwest coast of Panay, (the place then known as Aninipay), and bartered the land from an Ati headman named Polpolan and his son Marikudo for the price of a necklace and one golden salakot. The hills were left to the ...
Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival in the Philippines. The Kalibo Santo Niño—Ati-Atihan Festival, [1] also simply called Ati-Atihan Festival, is a Philippine festival held annually in January in honor of the Santo Niño (Holy Child or Infant Jesus) in several towns of the province of Aklan, Panay Island.
Ati (Inati), or Binisaya nga Inati, is an Austronesian language of the island of Panay in the Philippines. The variety spoken in northern Panay is also called Sogodnin . [ 2 ] The Ati people also speak Kinaray-a and Hiligaynon .
An Ati Tribe participant of Dinagyang Festival. Dinagyang, initially known as Iloilo Ati-Atihan, began after Rev. Fr. Ambrosio Galindez, the first Filipino Rector of the Augustinian Community and Parish Priest of the San Jose Parish introduced the devotion to Santo Niño in November 1967 after observing the Ati-Atihan Festival in the province ...
Filipinos (Ati, Karay-a, Capiznon, Hiligaynon, Romblomanon, Ratagnon, other Visayans), Austronesian peoples The Aklanon people are the ethnolinguistic group who lived in the province of Aklan . They are part of the wider Bisaya ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group .
Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of 12,011 km 2 (4,637 sq mi) and a total population of 4,542,926, as of 2020 census. [4]
The island was known to the first Spanish settlers in the Archipelago simply as Cagayan. They describe this territory as "two low islets about fifteen leagues from the island of Panay". They ruled these islets from the town of Arevalo in Iloilo by sailing south-southeast from this part of Panay, to the open sea. The islands are surrounded by ...
Ati-Atihan Festival: 15-21 Kalibo, Aklan: Honours the Santo Niño, [16] and the legendary meeting of the island’a aboriginal peoples with settlers from Borneo: Batan Ati-Ati Malakara Festival: 3rd weekend Batan, Aklan: Sikhayan Festival: 18 [17] Santa Rosa City, Laguna: Honors the resilience and perseverance of the people of Santa Rosa [17 ...