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The Bontoc Women's Work diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum Man with a spear at Bontoc in the Philippines, circa pre-1935. The Bontoc social structure used to be centered around village wards containing about 14 to 50 homes. Traditionally, young men and women lived in dormitories and ate meals with their families.
Bontoc is 392 kilometres (244 mi) from Manila, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Sagada, and 142 kilometres (88 mi) from Baguio. Bontoc is the historical capital of the entire Cordillera region since the inception of governance in the Cordillera. The municipality celebrates the annual Lang-ay Festival. [6] Bontoc is home to the Indigenous Bontoc ...
Bontoc, officially the Municipality of Bontoc (Cebuano: Lungsod sa Bontoc; Tagalog: Bayan ng Bontoc), is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 29,799 people.
Poverty incidence of Mountain Province 10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 44.07 2009 52.16 2012 37.63 2015 44.70 2018 24.58 2021 15.30 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Tourism The province has several rice terraces in seven of its different towns: Ambasing Rice Terraces — Sagada Bangaan Rice Terraces — Sagada Bangen Rice Terraces — Bauko Barlig Rice Terraces — Barlig Bayyo Rice Terraces ...
The primary function of the dap-ay is as the meeting place for the council of elders. The council serves as the governing body of the community, with the authority to settle disputes or conflicts internally or with another village, pass judgement and punishments, issue laws, coordinate rituals and farming activities, and make decisions that affect the community as a whole.
The enactment of the Republic Act No. 522 on June 15, 1950, granted the creation of the municipality of Bontoc, a village situated six (6) kilometers west from Sogod. But it was on July 29, 1950, that Bontoc was formally inaugurated as a fully pledged municipality.
The history of the terraces is intertwined with that of its people, their culture, and their traditional practices. [8] Apart from the idjang stone-fortresses of the Ivatan of the Batanes, the terraces, which spread over five present-day provinces, are the only other form of surviving stone construction from the pre-colonial period. [9]
Bontoc may refer to: Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines; Bontoc, Southern Leyte, Philippines; Bontoc people, an ethnic group from Central Luzon, Philippines; Bontoc language, spoken by the Bontoc people