Facts, Figures, Records, References, and Trivia about the Philippines

[doctor joe]

facts about figures being the 3rd largest island of the philipines
950 kilometers of road length circumnavigating the samar island,it means the road length is far as manila to tacloban
3 capitals
1 legitimate city

[CalbayogCity_Samar]

another fact about samar, the entire island forms a city called Biringan

[doctor joe]

ANOTHER ONE, ARAW CITY, LARGEST CITY IN SAMAR AND THE ONLY METROPOLIS IN SAMAR WITH 300 STORIES HIGH BUILDINGS,ALL ARE FREE!!!

[doctor joe]

A Gateway to Araw

Another tree which is worth mentioning, which still exists to this time, is that one which stands somewhere in the middle of the old town, located at the large plaza. It is an acacia tree and it has been a center of many supernatural stories. One of which is the belief that it is a gateway to Araw, that mythical city in another dimension, but being believed to be located somewhere in the boundary of Eastern and Northern Samar. A city much like ours, with its houses and streets, culture and beliefs, and people whose only difference is their being naturally invisible and whose main peculiarity in comparison to us is the flatness of their palette, the region between the nose and upper lip. According to legends, this tree is one of the gateways through which one could use in order to have a shortcut to Araw. This gateway is being guarded by two old men, a black man and a white one. The black man would always entice the intruder to proceed but the white man would try to warn and deny passage. One of the know Sulatnons to have been possessed (sinangkayan) by an Arawnon is a man called Aling. He died years ago. During the years when he was still possessed he was so strong that five men could not hold him. He was also able to move along the branches of the acacia tree as if walking on the street below. When he finally regained his consciousness he became a tambalan (faith healer) and he was able to cure many. He was also able to go in and out of Araw through the acacia tree. He was able to tell stories about the place.

Some of the stories are very well known even outside of Sulat. One of which is that some young Arawnons study various courses in Manila such as medicine. When you are in the National Capital Region try looking at the faces of students to see if there are those who have flat palettes. Perhaps you have also heard of car dealers who delivered vehicles in various places of Eastern Samar, or even in other parts of Region VIII, who ended up face to face with large trees along the highway as the address of the one who ordered them.

It is because just like in our dimension, Araw has its other communities, let us say towns or districts or barangays. Araw is the capital perhaps, or the main community. And these communities of our unseen fellow inhabitants of the earth have their highway to the capital. It may not be very exact but one belief is that one end of the highway is in Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Stories in Homonhon circulate about the presence of these unseen beings in the forests of Inapolangan. This is they say one of the reasons why no road could be constructed from Casiguran, the island center, to Brgy. Inapolangan, which is in the north. Every time there is an attempt to construct a road, heavy equipment would breakdown and laborers get sick. This highway passes through Yocenca in Salcedo where a giant footstep believed to be that of another mythical person called Samrayan or Sam Ryan could be seen. And it goes on along Sulat, through a cave system passing through Brgy. Del Remedio and ending up in Ilihan, which we have mentioned above. This highway goes on to one of the islands off Sulat where a shipwreck took place in the late 60s or early 70s because the ship captain thought he saw a port which proved to be the rocky side of the island. The ship was called Sta. Fe. Perhaps the other portions of the highway up to Arteche, Eastern Samar could be experienced by the other towns.
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[doctor joe]

araw city metropolitan area is from homonhon island from the south to laoang n. samar to the north. from arteche/gamay from the east to calbayog city to the west and also occupying the wjole area of BIRINGAN CITY

it might be a joke to everyone before here in SSC but only those people who seen,encounter and have been into that place can say so what it is in there

[CalbayogCity_Samar]

The movie T2 was based on the legend of Biringan City...

[doctor joe]

Chito S. Rono is one of the few people in samar who see's the biringan city and araw city, what you/we saw in T2 movie is just what we saw in biringan, but araw city is the hongkong,manhattan,and dubai of samar, biringan is paris/moscow/prague of samar

[CalbayogCity_Samar]

iba yung Biringan sa Araw? dito sa amin Biringan kasi yung mas kilala...

[firebar10]

question guys, I don't know if this is the right thread but, have you heard of any territorial disputes among provinces in the Philippines??

[CalbayogCity_Samar]

Homonhon Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar is also being claimed by Leyte, the island is found between Samar and Leyte...

[doctor joe]

Originally Posted by CalbayogCity_Samar

iba yung Biringan sa Araw? dito sa amin Biringan kasi yung mas kilala...

biringan is a suburb of araw city, siya ang pasay/paranaque/las pinas/alabang ng metro manila

ang araw city center ay makati'the fort/manila bay/ortigas/eastwood at eh times 100 mo yan na buildings at times 5 mo yung taas to times 10 ng gramercy sa makati

[oanari]

Originally Posted by firebar10

question guys, I don't know if this is the right thread but, have you heard of any territorial disputes among provinces in the Philippines??

I know one, but this was happened in Spanish colonial years during the mid-1800s. There were these two provinces disputing their boundaries. One town was once part of both provinces because of the dispute. The Spanish government officials in Manila got tired of this argument, so they created a province between them (much like a barrier). Since there's a big river up north and a big river down south, the Spanish government made these rivers as the official northern and southern boundaries of this newly created province. Some mountain towns and sitios were also merged to this newly created province. The province was created in 1850 and the officials called it, "La Union".

The two provinces that were disputing their boundaries at that time were Ilocos and Pangasinan. And the town that has been part of both provinces is Bacnotan. The river north of La Union is Amburayan and the river down south is Bued. The mountain towns and sitios that were merged to La Union were from Benguet province or at that time before the creation of La Union, it was called "El Pais de Igorotes".

If you look into the La Union Official Seal, you will see three hands holding tight to each other. These hands represent the Ilocanos, the Pangasinenses and the Igorots living together in unity in the province.

[CalbayogCity_Samar]

now we now why it's called "La Union"

[kiretoce]

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[freightrunner]

Originally Posted by firebar10

question guys, I don't know if this is the right thread but, have you heard of any territorial disputes among provinces in the Philippines??

Rizal, Cagayan and Rizal, Kalinga. Until now there is still an ongoing boundary dispute but if you erase the imaginaray line taht divides the two provinces Rizal would probably be just one town. I heard also that some people from the Kalinga side would prefer being part of Cagayan Province if they had the say because it is more convenient for them to go to Tuguegarao which is more accessible than their own capital city of Tabuk.

[kiretoce]

Nuevas Filipinas and Nuevo Reino de Filipinas were secondary names given to the area of Texas above the Medina River at the time of Domingo Ramón's expedition of 1716. Although less popular than the name Texas, Nuevas Filipinas remained part of the province's official name throughout the colonial period. Antonio Margil de Jesús evidently first used the name Nuevas Filipinas in a letter to the viceroy dated July 20, 1716. In it he voiced the hope that with the king's patronage it might be possible to secure "for the greater glory of God and the name of our catholic Monarch another new Philippines" among the Hasinai.

Two days later the missionaries sent a representation to the viceroy in which they expressed their "great hopes that this province shall be a New Philippines." The Franciscan's intention was to equate their work in Texas under Philip V with that of their brethren in the Philippine Islands under his predecessor, Philip II, thus engendering royal support. The name did not find immediate acceptance.

Neither Domingo Ramón, the missionaries, nor officials used Nuevas Filipinas in the period 1716–17. Martín de Alarcón's title as governor of Texas, issued by the viceroy in December 1716, refers only to the Province of the Texas. Nuevas Filipinas surfaces again in the address of a letter written by Fr. Isidro Félix de Espinosa from East Texas at the end of February 1718.

The instructions issued on March 11, 1718, for Alarcón's expedition to reinforce Texas does, for the first time in an official document, refer to Texas as "Nuevas Filipinas, Nueva Extremadura. " In his journal of the expedition Alarcón calls himself "Governor and Lieutenant Captain General of the Provinces of Coahuila, New Kingdom of the Philippines Province of the Texas."

A modification of this title appears in his memorial of services to the crown, in which he refers to himself as governor and lieutenant captain general of the Province of the Texas and New Philippines. Although Nuevas Filipinas appeared regularly on documents during the next forty years or so, if fell out of use toward the end of the eighteenth century.

By the early 1800s the term could be found only in a few of the province's legal documents, particularly land grants. Census reports, orders, and other governmental correspondence general referred to the province strictly as Texas.

[Garthin Dumaguete]

Originally Posted by kiretoce

Nuevas Filipinas and Nuevo Reino de Filipinas were secondary names given to the area of Texas above the Medina River at the time of Domingo Ramón's expedition of 1716. Although less popular than the name Texas, Nuevas Filipinas remained part of the province's official name throughout the colonial period. Antonio Margil de Jesús evidently first used the name Nuevas Filipinas in a letter to the viceroy dated July 20, 1716. In it he voiced the hope that with the king's patronage it might be possible to secure "for the greater glory of God and the name of our catholic Monarch another new Philippines" among the Hasinai.

Two days later the missionaries sent a representation to the viceroy in which they expressed their "great hopes that this province shall be a New Philippines." The Franciscan's intention was to equate their work in Texas under Philip V with that of their brethren in the Philippine Islands under his predecessor, Philip II, thus engendering royal support. The name did not find immediate acceptance.

Neither Domingo Ramón, the missionaries, nor officials used Nuevas Filipinas in the period 1716–17. Martín de Alarcón's title as governor of Texas, issued by the viceroy in December 1716, refers only to the Province of the Texas. Nuevas Filipinas surfaces again in the address of a letter written by Fr. Isidro Félix de Espinosa from East Texas at the end of February 1718.

The instructions issued on March 11, 1718, for Alarcón's expedition to reinforce Texas does, for the first time in an official document, refer to Texas as "Nuevas Filipinas, Nueva Extremadura. " In his journal of the expedition Alarcón calls himself "Governor and Lieutenant Captain General of the Provinces of Coahuila, New Kingdom of the Philippines Province of the Texas."

A modification of this title appears in his memorial of services to the crown, in which he refers to himself as governor and lieutenant captain general of the Province of the Texas and New Philippines. Although Nuevas Filipinas appeared regularly on documents during the next forty years or so, if fell out of use toward the end of the eighteenth century.

By the early 1800s the term could be found only in a few of the province's legal documents, particularly land grants. Census reports, orders, and other governmental correspondence general referred to the province strictly as Texas.

Wow! The main bulk of Texas, New Philippines... Where did you get the map from?

[Garthin Dumaguete]

Originally Posted by firebar10

question guys, I don't know if this is the right thread but, have you heard of any territorial disputes among provinces in the Philippines??

Until fairly recently, barangays Biak na Bato and Masulog were contested between the City of Canlaon and La Castellana, which automatically was not only between Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, but also between Region 7 and Region 6. Masulog became part of Canlaon City, and Biak na Bato, was split in to two, part in Canlaon, and part in La Castellana.

[red_jasper]

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[librero]

Originally Posted by firebar10

question guys, I don't know if this is the right thread but, have you heard of any territorial disputes among provinces in the Philippines??

a very late answer but I hope I can still share.

Mount Balagbag and the area around it is being disputed by San Jose del Monte and Rodriguez (Montalban). Actually, it's not just a case of a territorial dispute between two towns but also of two provinces (Bulacan and Rizal) and ultimately of two regions (Region 3 and 4A).