Tag: seats of government
Provincial Capitol: Misamis Occidental
Misamis Occidental is a province that protrudes in the northeastern side of the Zamboanga Peninsula Region. It is the western half of the former Spanish Province of Misamis which by the power of the P... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Capiz
On April 15, 1901, the Philippine Commission approved Act No. 115 creating the Province of Capiz. It was the third province to be organized in Panay Island pursuant to the provisions of the Provincial... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Guimaras
The Province of Guimaras is the fifth smallest among the 80 provinces in the Philippines with an area of 604.57 square kilometers; the Philippines has a land area of 300,000 square kilometers. Pursuan... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Iloilo
According to Section 1 of Act No. 113 approved by the Philippine Commission on April 11, 1901, all the provisions of The Provincial Government Act of 1901 was extended to a provincial government in th... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Antique
Oral history and traditions state that the Province of Antique and all of Panay Island was first inhabited by a tribe called Negritos. It further claimed that in 1212, Datu Puti and nine other Malay c... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Aklan
Back in the pre-Spanish Philippines, several wave of immigrants sailed through rough and tough seas to search for new settlements. And then there were ten datus from Borneo who found and bought new te... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Cotabato
The former undivided province of Cotabato was once the largest in the Philippines. On July 18, 1966, however, the once kingdom was divided as President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed into law Republic Act... Read More
Provincial Capitol: Sultan Kudarat
Because the Province of Cotabato was one of the largest and richest provinces of the Philippines, it was inevitable for it to be further subdivided. So, on November 22, 1973 by virtue of Presidential ... Read More