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  The Provincial Profile of Guimaras
For Buenavista, the Daliran Spring and Cave, Siete Pecados, Roca Encantada, and Pungkok Beach are irresistible.
Guimaras, a paradise for growth, is among the youngest provinces of the Philippines having been created only in 1992.
Guimaras has five banking institutions that serves the financial needs of the people although the proximity of Iloilo City allows residents to tap into that city’s well developed banking system.
www.geocities.com /lppsec/pp/guimaras.htm   (986 words)

  
  Guimaras - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Guimaras was a sub-province of Iloilo until it was made an independent province on May 11, 1992.
Guimaras mangos are reportedly served at the White House.
Guimaras first gained its status as a sub-province of Iloilo by virtue of R.A. 4667, which was enacted by Congress on 18 June 1966.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Guimaras   (860 words)

  
 Guimaras
Guimaras is considered one of the exotic islands in the Philippines.
Guimaras is located Southwest of Panay Island and Northwest of Negros Island in Western Visayas with a total land area of 60,465 hectares or 604.65 square kilometers.
The population of Guimaras as of the year 2000 was 141, 450 with an average annual growth rate of 2.48%.
www.tabligan.org /AIM/Guimaras.htm   (933 words)

  
 Guimaras Province, Region 6, Philippines
Guimaras is an island province in Western Visayas between the islands of Panay and Negros.
It is separated from Iloilo by Iloilo Strait and from Negros Occidental by Guimaras Strait.
Guimaras was created as a sub-province of Iloilo by Republic Act No. 4667 on June 18, 1966.
oasis.fortunecity.com /acapulco/215/region6/guimaras/guimaras.htm   (308 words)

  
 Manila Bulletin Online
7382 and 5807 sponsored by Representative Emily Lopez of the Lone District of Guimaras was conducted.
A year later, on June 8, 2001, Republic Act No. 9138, establishing the Guimaras State College, interating therewith the Guimaras Polytechnic College in the Municipality of Buenavista and the Western Visayas College of Science and Technology in the Municipality of Jordan, Guimaras was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The Guimaras State College, the only state in the island province, lives up to its mission of producing quality graduates and professionals, responsive to the needs of the community through competent faculty and staff and updated facilities.
www.mb.com.ph /issues/2006/09/19/SCAU2006091974881.html   (887 words)

  
 Luzon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As far as historical documents can attest, Guimaras was known as "Himal-us" during the pre-Spanish period.
Guimaras was an integral part of the Iloilo province established by the Spaniards.
Guimaras was created a separate province on May 11, 1992.
www.kykofc.com /kentucky/koc_sites/int/Philippines/Guimaras.htm   (202 words)

  
 Guimaras Island
Guimaras also has many coves and neighboring islets with fine white sand beaches which is the reason why the island was the favorite spot for vacation houses by the well-heeled of Iloilo.
Archaelogical evidence indicate that Guimaras had a thriving native population before Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa who established Villa Arevalo visited the island and notes the abundant timber forests and limestone deposits useful for building, as well as the island’s hunting and fishing grounds.
Guimaras attractions are for the most part natural: white sand beaches and private coves, farms and the like.
www.admu.edu.ph /offices/mirlab/panublion/r6_guimaras.html   (627 words)

  
 About Guimaras Province, Philippines
Guimaras, considered one of the exotic islands in the Philippines; believed to have been once part of the Panay group of islands.
Once a sub-province of Iloilo, Guimaras was proclaimed as a regular and full-pledged province on May 22, 1992.
Located at the southern tip of Guimaras; surrounded with sandy beach and growing corals; has 20 cottages, a restaurant and a bar for cold drinks, a fresh water swimming pool.
www.islandsaccommodations.com /places/guimaras.htm   (546 words)

  
 Iloilo: Guimaras
Guimaras is an exotic island off the coast of Iloilo.
Guimaras is the youngest and smallest of the six component provinces of the Western Visayas Region (Region 6).
Guimaras is noted for plantations of mango trees, locally believed to produce the finest fruit in the country, and the excellent beaches dotting the outer shore.
iloiloonline.blogspot.com /2006/02/guimaras.html   (1130 words)

  
 Guimaras Travel Destinations, Guimaras Hotels & Resorts, Guimaras Accommodation
Between the islands of Panay and Negros and accessible by pumpboat from Iloilo is the small island of Guimaras, known to Visayans as the site of the much-admired Roca Encantada (Enchanted Rock), summer house of the distinguished Lopez family of Iloilo.
The house is perched on a promontory overlooking Guimaras Strait.
Across the promontory is a picturesque group of coral islets called Siete Pecados (Isles of the Seven Sins), a curious counterpoint to the attractions of spiritual value in Guimaras.
www.lakbaypilipinas.com /travel_guimaras.html   (472 words)

  
 Paraw Regatta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rosario in Buenavista, Guimaras; and Puting Balas and Morobuan in Jordan, Guimaras.
The San Miguel Beer 29th Iloilo -Guimaras Paraw Regatta is co-hosted, by the Province of Guimaras and sponsored by the City of Iloilo and the Province of Iloilo in cooperation with the Department of Tourism Region VI.
The Iloilo Paraw Regatta as a tourism promotion project was devolved by the Department of Tourism Region VI to the Province of Iloilo in 1992 in pursuance to pertinent provisions of the Local Government Code of 1991.
www.tabligan.org /AIM/paraw.htm   (1273 words)

  
 AirSAR Capability to Geomorphology and Geologic Mapping Application
The predominant limestone in Guimaras, Buenavista Limestone, is a low dipping, calcareous to massive, fossiliferous, lime-rich limestone (Geologic Map of Iloilo, 1996).
A diorite intrusive, Guimaras Divorite, near center of the island is described as silicified diorite porphyry with associated andesite porphyry (Geoogic Map of Dumangas, 1996).
This diorite in Guimaras exhibis the lightest tone in the study area, which is probably caused by the higher backscatter of rock fragments.
www.gisdevelopment.net /aars/acrs/1998/ts10/ts10002.asp   (1318 words)

  
 Bangko Buena welcomes Culasi Branch
The owners took over the control, management and operation of the ailing Rural Bank of Buenavista Guimaras, Inc. on July 23, 1982 which has a paid-up capital of P 206,800.00 with resources of a little over P 1 million pesos and deposits of P0.5 million.
To further strengthen its operations to be an effective player to the progress and development of the countryside, particularly to the communities it serves, the rural bank applied for the third branch in Lambunao, Iloilo, which was again approved on February 7, 2000 by BSP and opened on June 3, 2000.
On December 17, 2002 the rural bank changed its corporate name to Bangko Buenavista Guimaras, Inc. (A Rural Bank) and on February 27, 2004 BSP approved the change of its corporate name to Bangko Buena, Inc. (A Rural Bank) and was duly registered with Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2004.
www.thenewstoday.info /2005/09/02/feature2.htm   (658 words)

  
 DAILY STAR: Top Stories
Galanza and his four companions were subjects of a regionwide manhunt by the Guimaras Police Provincial Office for the alleged massacre of Luis Yuday, 57, his wife, Anna, 60, and Edgar Glorial in Brgy.
Police investigations said the three victims of the alleged massacre in Guimaras, sustained multiple hack wounds from the suspects who were reportedly armed with bolos.
Buenavista police investigators said the suspects may have been known to the victims.
www.visayandailystar.com /2003/June/13/topstory8.htm   (379 words)

  
 Buenavista, Guimaras - Wikipedia
It Buenavista nahamutangan ha amihanan nga dapit han Isla han Guimaras, ngan usa han lima nga bungto nga kabahin han probinsya han Guimaras.
An Buenavista mayda terrano nga naglalainlain tikang hin mga patag tubtob kabugkiran.
An Buenavista ginbahin ngadto hin katloan kag unom (36) nga baranggay.
war.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buenavista,_Guimaras   (297 words)

  
 The Official Home of Buenavista, Guimaras - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Official Home of Buenavista, Guimaras - Home
The Municipality of Buenavista is one of the five municipalities of the Province of Guimaras situated in the northern part of the Island.
Origially, the whole island of the Province of Guimaras now composed of five municipalities was knowernor General upon arrival at the old town site, exclaimed, ?Buena Vista?, or ?Good View?
www.islabuenavista.gov.ph   (115 words)

  
 G.R. No. 80228
Monica, Oton to Jordan, Guimaras, the complainant was warned and intimidated by the barangay captain Cordero under threat of death, to say that she voluntarily went with the accused.
The trial court, however, did not give credence to the claim of the accused that he and the complainant were lovers and found, instead, that the evidence presented proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty of the crime charged.
Monica, Oton Iloilo, to Jordan, Guimaras, on Saturday, 14 August 1982, and she filed her complaint against the accused on Monday, 16 August 1982.
www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1988/sep1988/gr_80228_1988.html   (3325 words)

  
 Guimaras Philippines Travel Information - Philippine Hotels and Resorts Web Reservation Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Punta Blanco and Camp Jossman, Tinadtaran, Buenavista; target range and military camp were constructed by the United States Army in 1903.
Nagarao Island Resort, Jordan; located at the southern tip of Guimaras; surrounded with sandy beach and growing corals; has 20 cottages, a restaurant and a bar for cold drinks, a fresh water swimming pool.
Roca Encantada, Buenavista; summer house of the Lopez family built in 1910 on top of a huge rock.
www.amoretrip.com /guimaras-philippines/info.html   (937 words)

  
 Paraw Regatta
The Iloilo Paraw (sailboat) Regatta, instituted in 1973 is a race among native outriggers in the strait between Guimaras Island and Iloilo City.
Called "paraw" in the local dialect, these native outriggers faithfully copy in materials and design sailboats which carried to Panay, in 1212 A.D. the first settlers from Borneo who were in search for a peaceful home.
The Iloilo Paraw Regatta was instituted in 1973.
members.tripod.com /~Katterina/paraw.htm   (803 words)

  
 Iloilo: February 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Guimaras is an exotic island situated right at the heart of the Philippine archipelago.
Located on the southwestern tip of Panay Island between the Iloilo River and the Guimara Strait, its attributes as the repository of architectural and artistic legacies, as the promising point of progress in aquaculture, and as a trove of unexplored tourist attractions give it an allure so bewitching as not to be missed.
which is bounded by the Municipality of Zarraga in the north, New Lucena in the northwest, Santa Barbara in the west, Leon in the southwest, Tigbauan in the south and the Guimaras strait in the east.
iloiloonline.blogspot.com /2006_02_01_iloiloonline_archive.html   (7692 words)

  
 Jabao vs Bonilla : MTJ-94-923 : September 10, 1999 : Per Curiam : En Banc
Rosario, Buenavista, Guimaras with Mila Alerta, his former private secretary, now court stenographer of the court; and
Bedona testified that he could not have notarized a document in Guimaras because it is beyond his jurisdiction.
Sevillo stated that Judge Bonilla and his predecessor-in-office at Branch 16 of the said court adopted the procedure of having the affidavits of cohabitation notarized after solemnizing the marriage.
www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/1999/sept99/mtj_94_923.htm   (2957 words)

  
 Guimaras Island - Home to the World's Sweetest Mangoes! - SkyscraperCity
Since most infos about Guimaras is posted on the Iloilo City and Province Thread due to its cultural and geographical proximity to Iloilo.
Guimaras is just awakening, its potentials are far too underutilized at the moment being one of the poorest provinces in our country.
Nagarao Island Resort is my favorite destination in Guimaras and is one of the best but unfortunately one of the most expensive also.
www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=260277   (2056 words)

  
 LINK - May July 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Twenty three Centralians in Buenavista, Guimaras met at their municipal gymnasium last July 10 for a fellowship and organizational meeting.
Serving as convenor was Buenavista Mayor Arturo V. Fernandez (BSA ’63).
The election of officers was put in abeyance pending the presence by the majority of alumni in Buenavista, whose total number exceeds one hundred.
www.cpu.edu.ph /link/may-july99/mayjul8.html   (284 words)

  
 DYVS Family
However, they did not stay long in Guimaras and owing to pressures and problems in the ministry, they had to move back to Manila.
In its four years of tedious but fruitful ministry in the Island of Guimaras, numerous problems were encountered by DYVS like the constant power shortage and the dwindling financial support.
It was on June 15, 1974 when the bewildered folk in Guimaras saw the dismantling of the last equipment followed by its shipment to Bacolod City.
www.dyvsfebc.org /about.html   (1357 words)

  
 INSIDE PCIJ » 8/11: The day disaster struck Guimaras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The environment department has said Petron and the owner of the chartered tanker, MT Solar I, could be slapped with millions of pesos in penalties over the spill.
She said that while technically, the liability for the oil spill rests with the ship owner, “which is why he is covered by insurance for an event like this.
The Guimaras oil tragedy now got a monicker of familiar reference (maybe because of the extent of its damage.) M/V Solar 1 sunk on August 11 off the coast of Guimaras - now it can be known as 8/11.
www.pcij.org /blog/?p=1149   (3695 words)

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