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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.
The complete list of winners of the Dinagyang Tribes Competition, also known as the Ati Tribes Competition or the Ati-atihan Contest, during the Dinagyang Festival, held annually on the fourth Sunday of January at the Iloilo Freedom Grandstand in Iloilo City, Philippines. The annual winner of the competition receives a cash prize and a trophy. [1]
Prior to that, the festival was known as the Iloilo Ati-atihan. The festival celebrates the Santo Niño, the Holy Child (or Infant Jesus), and marks its arrival in Iloilo, while also commemorating the pact between the Datus and the indigenous Ati people following the arrival of the Malay settlers, the legendary barter of Panay Island from the ...
The Ati-Atihan Festival is believed to have started in the year 1212 when Borneans, led by the ten datus, traveled on balangays and crossed the Sulu Sea to land in Panay, making it the oldest festival in the Philippines. Ati-atihan Festival was included as one of the "World's Best Festivals" by Fest300, [38] dubbed as the "Grand Daddy of ...
A woman at the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival. The Negritos are the descendants of the same early East Eurasian meta-population, which also gave rise to modern East Asians and Australasians, among other populations of the Asia-Pacific region.
Ati-Atihan Festival: 15-21 Kalibo, Aklan: Honours the Santo Niño, [17] 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 [18] Santa Rosa City, Laguna: Honors the resilience and perseverance of the people of Santa Rosa [18 ...
Ati-Atihan festival; M. Manila Carnival; S. Sinulog This page was last edited on 23 March 2017, at 17:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Christianization of the Visayans and Filipinos in general, is commemorated by the Ati-Atihan Festival of Aklan, the Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo, and the Sinulog festival the feast of the Santo Niño de Cebu (Holy Child of Cebu), the brown-skinned depiction of the Child Jesus given by Magellan to Rajah Humabon's wife, Hara Amihan (baptized ...