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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:51, 4 April 2018: 3,648 × 2,736 (3.84 MB): Patrickroque01 {{Information |Description = PUP Pylon monument at the entrance of Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) Mabini Campus in Santa Mesa, Manila |Source = Taken using my own camera with model DSC-HX5V |Date = 03-06-2018 |Author = Patrick Roque |other_versions = }}
The Philippines, [g] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [h] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...
The image of the Santo Niño originally had a very dark complexion pre-World War II. This dark skin color was removed after the war, which revealed the image's much fairer skin tone. The image of the Santo Niño is the oldest surviving Catholic relic in the Philippines, along with the Magellan's Cross. [19]
Varying Austronesian architecture existed althroughout Southeast asia including what would later become the Philippines. These varying styles exist within different Austronesian ethnic groups but what they have in common is the used of organic materials, Thatch roofings and are often raised above by posts or stilts to avoid floods.
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The image is commonly known as the Golden Tara, an allusion to its reported [57] identity as an image of a Buddhist Tara. The figure, about 178 mm (7.0 in) [58] tall, is of a female Hindu or Buddhist deity sitting cross-legged and wearing a headdress and other ornaments. It is on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.