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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
Marble carvings are centered in Romblon, and most (primarily Buddhist statues and related works) are exported. [85] With the arrival of Christianity, stone carvings became widespread; most are church facades or statues, or statues and other crafts for personal altars. [86] A notable stone carving is the facade of Miagao Church. [87]
Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. [5] The City of Iloilo is its largest settlement with a total population of 457,626 inhabitants, as of 2020 census. Panay is a triangular island, located in the western part of the Visayas. It is about 160 km (99 mi) across.
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 Mindanao.