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The area of Vigan was originally a settlement of traders coming from the Fujian Province, China.At the time of Spanish colonisation, the Chinese settlers, whose language was Southern Min (Min Nan, often referred to as "Hokkien" by most Filipinos), referred to the area as Bee Gan (Chinese: 美岸; pinyin: měi'àn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-gān), which means "Beautiful Shore."
' Ilocos South '), officially the Province of Ilocos Sur (Ilocano: Probinsia ti Ilocos Sur; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Ilocos Sur), is a province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Located on the mouth of the Mestizo River is the capital of Vigan , while Candon is the most-populous city.
The Metropolitan Cathedral and Parish of the Conversion of Saint Paul, commonly known as Vigan Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines. It contains the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia cathedra. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site declaration for the Historic Town of Vigan in 1999. [1]
After the Taal Heritage Town, a tourist attraction known for its ancestral houses and centuries-old churches. For this reason, the town is known also known as the Vigan of the South a reference to the town Vigan in Ilocos Sur. [82] [83] Vigan of the South Tacloban: Leyte (geographically only) Eastern Visayas: Home of the Happiest People in the ...
Ilocos was a province in northern Luzon, Philippines that comprised the present-day provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, parts of La Union, and Abra. [1] In 1818, the province was disestablshed when it was split into Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur through a royal decree [2] due to rapid population growth.
Quema house before renovations. The Quema House is the ancestral home of the Quema family in the Philippines.Built in the 1820s, it is a historic landmark in the town of Vigan, Ilocos Sur in the Philippines.
Poverty incidence of Ilocos Region 10 20 30 40 2000 39.70 2003 30.20 2006 25.95 2009 21.97 2012 18.46 2015 18.81 2018 9.85 2021 11.00 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority In 2023, the poverty incidence among families in the Ilocos Region was recorded at 8.4%, with a Full Year Per Capita Poverty Threshold of ₱34,454. The Coefficient of Variation for the poverty incidence in the region was ...
Ilocos Sur's 1st congressional district is one of the two congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Ilocos Sur.It has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1916 and earlier in the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1916. [3]