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  Abra province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abra is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon.
Abra's inhabitants are mostly descendants of llocano settlers and members of the Tingguian tribe.
Abra is hemmed in by the towering mountain ranges of the Ilocos in the west and the Cordillera Central in the east.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abra_province   (493 words)

  
 Reign of terror in Sallapadan, Abra : QC IMC
Melchor Dilodilo, 503rd Brigade Commander, disclosed that the fatality was Benzon Icloy and the wounded as Fernando Mino.
Dilodilo's confirmation of their troops' involvement in the death and injury of the said individuals is tantamount to admission to their responsibility in the death and injury of the said civilians.
Earlier, George Batoon, a jeepney driver, of Basar, Sallapadan, Abra, was harassed by troops of the 41st IB.
qc.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1243   (486 words)

  
 WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Province of Abra is now known as the ""Natural Dye Capital of the Philippines"" because it is blessed with abundant natural dye-yielding plants.
Abra is an inland province bounded by Ilocos Norte and Mountain Province on the north, Ilocos Sur on the south, Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur on the west, and Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Apayao on the east.
Abra had a population of 195,964 as of May 1996, or 16.33% of the Cordillera Administrative Region's total population.
www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=69   (303 words)

  
 Hector's page of the Philippines
The province of Abra occupies the western portion of the Cordillera region in northern Luzon.
It is bounded on the north by Kalinga-Apayao, on the east by Isabela, on the west by Abra and Ilocos Sur, and on the south by Benguet and Ifugao.
Abra's inhabitants are mostly descendants of Ilocano settlers and members of the Tingguian tribe.
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 Municipality of Sallapadan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Sal-lapadan was the first Tinguian settlement organized under the American regime in the highlands of Abra.
The municipality got its name from the barrio where the seat of government originally was.
The original inhabitants named their settlement "Sahipa-chan," the name of a wild bush which was predominant at the time in the area.
www.sallapadan.gov.ph   (73 words)

  
 Cordillera Online - Abra Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Abra is a landlocked province located on western side of the Cordillera Region.
Created as a Politico-Militar Province in 1846 during the Spanish Rule, Abra was integrated to the Province of Ilocos Sur on February 1905.
Abra is blessed with abundant natural dye yielding plants making it the "Natural Dye Capital of the Philippines." Natural dyes, extracted from plants, are used in food coloring, beverages, textiles, furniture and pharmaceutical products.
www.cordilleraonline.com /content/view/20/169   (184 words)

  
 IBON Foundation, Inc. - News + Features > IBON Features > 2001 > Vol VI No. 15
Sallapadan town, Abra — Barrio Sallapadan, a small, peaceful village in the uplands of this province, is now on a crossroads.
Sallapadan is roughly five hours away from Bangued, the provincial center, and a couple of hours from the poblacion.
The Masadiit tribe is a sub-tribe of the Tinggians of Abra.
70.85.145.34 /~ibon/news/if/00/15.htm   (947 words)

  
 The Manila Times Internet Edition | REGIONS > Cops admit increase in Abra index crimes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Abra police made the report to Supt. Jesus Verzosa, the Cordillera region police chief, during the first meeting of Abra mayors with the police at the Abra provincial police office in Camp Juan Villamor.
Rodolfo Ebardo, Abra police chief, attributed the decrease to the arrival of the Special Action Force that temporarily took over from the local police as ordered by the PNP chief, Director General Edgardo Aglipay.
The towns of Tineg, Boliney, Malibcong, Sallapadan, Bucloc and Tubo reported zero crimes, Ebardo said, but residents scoffed at the numbers because the six towns have seen political killings and the New People’s Army (NPA) are strongest in those towns.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/feb/09/yehey/prov/20050209pro2.html   (495 words)

  
 BaguioCityDotCom - Summer Capital's Web Portal
Saturnino Sabian, CICT Abra chief said  the defective PCOs will be repaired starting next month.  He said the PCO’s mechanical failure are due to wear-and-tear, and some are not operational due to “AC failure” or power interruption in the main unit or on their relay towers.
DOLORES, Abra — Mayor Albert Z. Guzman of Dolores, Abra vowed to support the effort of President Arroyo to sustain the economic gains of her administration by allocating P325,000.00 for its economic projects, Said fund comes from the LGU’s annual investment fund of P3.5M for the year 2006.
BANGUED, Abra — The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist launched their campaign for massive plantation of Jtropa trees in the province in support to government’s campaign to push for energy conservation and advocate for the development and promotion of alternative indigenous energy and fuel sources.
www.baguiocity.com /index.php?cmd=news&item=471®ion=4&cat=1   (617 words)

  
 Bulatlat - The Philippines's alternative weekly newsmagazine
In turn, the residents of Baay-Licuanan, Lenneng, and Guinguinabang, Lacub, all villages of Abra province, passed a resolution in support of the covenant.
In turn, the residents of Barangays Baay-Licuanan, Lenneng, and Guinguinabang, Lacub, Abra province (more than 300 kms north of Manila) passed a resolution in support of the covenant.
This is alarming, he said, because even with the barangay resolution and peace covenant, AFP troops continue to harass and kill civilians.
www.bulatlat.com /news/5-31/5-31-abra_printer.html   (541 words)

  
 G.R. No. L-32126
Bayongan in Sallapadan on the date of said killing, but he was one of the persons who was called upon by the chief of police of the place to accompany him in answer to the call for help of the wife of the victim.
Conrado B. Venus, Municipal Judge of Penarrubia Abra, and a member of the Cursillo Movement, was presented as rebuttal witness for the prosecution.
On the witness stand, he stated that he belongs to Cursillo No. 3 of the Parish of Bangued, Abra, and said cursillo was held on October 20 to 23, 1966, at the St. Joseph Seminary in Galicia, Pidigan Abra, and not on June 23 to 26, 1967.
www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1978/jul1978/gr_32126_1978.html   (4822 words)

  
 TruthForce! | How Tingguians protect forests
In the article below, an indigenous community in Abra still practices a form of governance and self-determination that is deeply rooted in principles of stewardship and participation--principles that have ensured effective forest conservation.
According to Philip Tingonong, Abra planning and development officer, the lapat is a century-old system of regulating the use of natural resources among the upland Tingguian tribes.
He said Sallapadan, Bucloc, Boliney, Daguioman, Tubo and Luba are the Tingguian towns that actively practice this indigenous system.
www.truthforce.info /?q=node/view/834   (969 words)

  
 "Region 1"
Abra was a mere encomienda attached to the Ilocos region in 1619.By the year 1846, Abra had established a bishopric with its seven curacies under the Augustinians.
In 1867, Abra suffered a flood that destroyed farms and plunged the people into such desperation that the Economic society of the friends of the Country, through Governor-General Jose Basco, decided to purchase farming implements for the inhibitants.
Abra is also the historic place where Gabriela Silang made her last stand.
www.livinginthephilippines.com /region1.html   (2052 words)

  
 G.R. No. L-28327
C before the Chief of Police Juanito Bagabag of Sallapadan, Abra, which she identified in court.
He likewise gave his statement before the same Chief of Police of Sallapadan, Abra, Juanito Bagabag, which was marked and identified as Exh.
The accused Ayaman Abboc and Bitel Abboc, who alleged to have been attending to their sick grandfather, could have gone to Bantay Sallapadan, Abra, on horseback and returned to Manabo unnoticeably within a period of ten or fifteen minutes to continue with their alleged routinary service to their grandfather.
www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1973/sep1973/gr_28327_1973.html   (1668 words)

  
 CPA statement
On March 26, 2005, five men were on their way to hunt in Lan-ag, Lacub, Abra when they were arbitrarily arrested and detained by elements of the 41st IB under the command of 2Lt.
It will be recalled that elements of the 41st IBPA were responsible for the murder of Bernabe Banguey of Sallapadan, Abra sometime in July 2004, as well as indiscriminate firing and military terrorism against indigenous communities in Sallapadan.
The massive military operation in Abra is meant to intimidate and sow terror among the communities protesting the entry of transnational mining companies and destructive mining in their ancestral territories as well as the worsening human rights situation in the province.
www.cpaphils.org /campaigns/cpa_prss-release-HR-041205.htm   (862 words)

  
 People vs Baño : 148710 : January 15, 2004 : C.J. Davide, Jr : First Division : Decision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jaime Baño and Virginia Bolesa were married on 12 October 1992 at Bilabila, Sallapadan, Abra.
Barangay Siblong, Bucay, Abra, saw Jaime Baño at the funeral wake of one Antonina Babida.
Rolex Gonzales, Medical Officer III of the Abra Provincial Hospital, conducted an autopsy on Virginia’s cadaver.
www.supremecourt.gov.ph /jurisprudence/2004/jan2004/148710.HTM   (2953 words)

  
 About Culture and Arts
Otherwise known as Itneg or literally, Itineg, which means people living near the Tineg river (Tinguian, Tinguianes, Itinek, Mandaya, Tingian), the group has been classified into several subgroupings: Adassen, Binongan, Inlaod, Masadiit, Aplai, Banao, Gubang, Maeng, Luba, and Balatok, although the latter might be a Kalinga group.
The population range is 51,422 with concentrations in the towns of Tubo (4,535), Manabo (3,250), Sallapadan (3,525), San Quintin (3,370), Luba (4,746), and Boliney (3,694) in the province of Abra (NSO 1990).
There are two general groupings: the valley Tinggian which are an homogenous and concentrated population found in the lower reaches of the province of Abra that thrive on wet rice cultivation; the mountain Tinggian that depend on dry cultivation and root crops in the higher elevations.
www.ncca.gov.ph /about_cultarts/ebook_subcont.php?subcont_Id=35   (273 words)

  
 PIA News Releases
The dead body was brought to Sallapadan LGU for proper documentation thru the help of the community people there and the supervision of Mayor Garde Cardenas of Sallapadan.
Mudiit, Dolores, Abra where the nearest funeral services is available for the processing of the cadaver, afforded him a coffin and given a decent wake while waiting for the claimant-relatives.
Lily Ann Naogsan, sister of the dead NPA admitted that their father is the spokesman of the Cordillera People’s Democratic Front (CPDF) and a high ranking NPA in the regional command.
www.pia.gov.ph /news.asp?fi=p060712.htm&no=55   (463 words)

  
 :: Malaya - The National Newspaper ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In Abra Friday, a 20-year-old college student suspected to be an NPA member was killed in an encounter between the rebel group and government troops.
Belated Camp Crame reports identified the fatality as Jay-R Naogsan, a student of the University of Baguio and a native of Mt. Province.
Reports said Army operatives were conducting combat patrol in Barangay Ud-udlao, Sallapadan, Abra when they chanced upon a still undetermined number of guerillas and engaged them in a firefight.
www.malaya.com.ph /jul11/news4.htm   (566 words)

  
 The Manila Times Internet Edition | REGIONS > Abra NGO finds 2 substandard road projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Pura Sumangil, chair of the Concerned Citizens of Abra for Good Governance (CCAGG), said the Department of Public Works and Highways through its contractor V.B. Baronio completed last month its reconstruction of the 3.5-kilometer Denden-Calao farm-to-market road in Villavisciosa town.
The DPWH Abra District is headed by the engineer, Sandy Benedito.
A farm-to-market road project worth P23 million covering Barangay Bazar, Barrio Sallapadan and Ud-udiao in Sallapadan town is also allegedly tainted with anomalies when the Palomares Construction, an Ilocos Sur-based contractor, failed to use cement to prevent the road from erosion.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2005/apr/11/yehey/prov/20050411pro5.html   (299 words)

  
 Abra's Plea : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
On October 29, 2002, Mayor Clarence Benwaren of the Municipality of Tineg, Province of Abra, was murdered inside the San Isidro Labrador Church in Calauan Laguna while participating in a sacred rite of matrimony.
Yesterday, the Lady Mayor Wilma Saguiyod-Gatud of Tubo, Abra, another Municipality that has witnessed the assassination of it's late Mayor Jose Segundo (who was also on the opposition side) in the not too distant past, was arrested for an alleged 'possession of unlicensed long firearms'.
This is being perceived by many as a convenient distraction from what the police should be concentrating which is the immediate resolution of the Benwaren Murder, and timely done to show false control since the DILG Secretary was coincidentally visiting the Municipality of San Juan, Abra.
www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=16468&catID=2   (1976 words)

  
 EmailPinoy News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
BANGUED, Abra (22 February) -- Survey results disclosed that one of the reasons for the poor performance in school among grade one pupils is malnutrition.
They experience difficulties in coping with the big environment and the demands of learning and associating with other school children in school.
In Abra, at least eight elementary schools were considered recipients of the program for the school year 2005-2006.
news.emailpinoy.com /philippine/localepnews/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1140578847&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&   (254 words)

  
 PIA News Releases
BANGUED, Abra (23 December) -- "The Department of Agrarian Reform - Abra Provincial Office has yet to distribute 1,400 hectares of lands to the people of Abra".
Meanwhile, as part of DAR's continuing delivery of support services to its Agrarian Reform Communities (ARCs), the construction of two farm-to-market roads was implemented in the two ARC towns of Villaviciosa and Sallapadan.
More infrastructure projects are expected to be implemented in the 4th, 5th and 6th income class municipalities in Abra under the ARISP III later next year.
www.pia.gov.ph /news.asp?fi=p051223.htm&no=34   (383 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Abra 1 Benguet 6 Ifugao 3 Kalinga 4 Mountain Province 7 2.
Implementation of Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization or AFMA (DA) [ok —2t] Accomplishment: For CY 2001, P65.76 million was allocated for CAR, of which P60.50 million has been utilized for the GMA rice and corn, high value crops, and livestock programs under AFMA.
Abra (17) : Boliney (Amti, Danac East, Dao-angan) Lacub (Bacag, Bunneg, Guin-Guinabang, Lan-Ag) Licuan-Baay (Lenneng, Bonglo); Malibcong (Dulao, Gacab, Buanao, Dul-Dulao, Taripan, Umnap) Tubo (Alangtin, Tabacda) Apayao (15) : Calanasan (Naguilan, Kabugawan); Conner (Banban, Puguin) Flora (Malubibit Norte, Balluyan, Sta.
www.kgma.org /acc/CAR.doc   (1262 words)

  
 'Igme' heads for Taiwan, ... - Jul. 02, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
of Santa town said five people were believed killed after the Abra River overflowed at the height of the typhoon.
In Abra, logs, animals and appliances were seen floating along Abra River.
Benigno Paderes of Sallapadan, Abra, have been missing since Wednesday, while two others were reported injured.
www.inq7.net /nat/2004/jul/02/text/nat_4-1-p.htm   (1026 words)

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