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The Zamboanga La Hermosa Festival embedded in Zamboanga’s rich history of devotion to the Nuestra Señora del Pilar that is supplemented by rich legends. In the Spanish Era, Zamboanga was an integral part of Spanish Colonization. In 1635, the Spaniards built a fort in Zamboanga named Real Fuerza de San Jose in Brgy. Zone IV area to secure ...
Illustration of Zamboanga and Fort Pilar, detail from the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734. In 1635, upon the requests of the Jesuit missionaries and Bishop Fray Pedro of Cebu, the Spanish governor of the Philippines Juan Cerezo de Salamanca (1633–1635) approved the building of a stone fort in defense against pirates and raiders of the sultans of Mindanao and ...
Main entrance of Fort Pilar with the historical marker in Zamboanga City. This list of historical markers installed by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) in Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) is an annotated list of people, places, or events in the region that have been commemorated by cast-iron plaques issued by the said commission.
This list contains an overview of the government recognized Cultural Properties of the Philippines in Zamboanga Peninsula. The list is based on the official lists provided by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts , National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the National Museum of the Philippines .
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Zamboanga City in the Philippines contains 28 islands off the mainland coast. The largest is Sacol (about 12 km long and 8 km wide). Three of them, (Vitali, Malanipa, and Sacol) are inhabited mostly by fishing residents and have their own barangays. The others are not regularly inhabited, but frequented by fishermen and scuba divers.
A. Z. Jolicco Cuadra (May 24, 1939 in Zamboanga City – April 30, 2013 in Calamba) was a poet and artist, art critic, essayist, and short story writer. He was known as the "enfant terrible of Philippine art" in the 1960s, and his good looks and writings dubbed him the Byron of Philippine literature.
Poverty incidence of Zamboanga del Norte 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 2006 65.48 2009 68.51 2012 54.36 2015 60.53 2018 45.44 2021 40.80 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Zamboanga del Norte Medical Center in Dipolog About half of the province's land area is devoted to agriculture. Corn, coconut, and rice are the major crops. The province being rich in marine and mineral sources, its fish ...