Bontoc | |
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Municipality of Bontoc | |
Location within the Philippines | |
Coordinates: 17°05′24″N120°58′38″E / 17.09°N 120.9772°E | |
Country | Philippines |
Region | Cordillera Administrative Region |
Province | Mountain Province |
District | Lone district |
Founded | 1908 |
Barangays | 16 (see Barangays) |
Government | |
• Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
• Mayor | Jerome B. Tudlong, Jr. |
• Vice Mayor | Eusebio S. Kabluyen |
• Representative | Maximo Y. Dalog Jr. |
• Municipal Council | Members |
• Electorate | 17,135 voters (2022) |
Area | |
• Total | 396.10 km2 (152.94 sq mi) |
Elevation | 1,173 m (3,848 ft) |
Highest elevation | 1,833 m (6,014 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 804 m (2,638 ft) |
Population (2020 census) [4] | |
• Total | 24,104 |
• Density | 61/km2 (160/sq mi) |
• Households | 6,452 |
Economy | |
• Income class | 2nd municipal income class |
• Poverty incidence | 10.01 |
• Revenue | ₱ 193.7 million (2020) |
• Assets | ₱ 380.3 million (2020) |
• Expenditure | ₱ 147.8 million (2020) |
• Liabilities | ₱ 159.8 million (2020) |
Service provider | |
• Electricity | Mountain Province Electric Cooperative (MOPRECO) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
ZIP code | 2616 |
PSGC | |
IDD : area code | +63 (0)74 |
Native languages | Balangao Bontoc Ilocano Tagalog |
Website | lgubontoc |
Bontoc, officially the Municipality of Bontoc (Ilocano : Ili ti Bontoc; Tagalog : Bayan ng Bontoc), is a 2nd class municipality and capital of the province of Mountain Province, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,104 people. [4]
Bontoc is 392 kilometres (244 mi) from Manila.
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 people. The town also hosts the UNESCO tentatively-listed Alab petroglyphs.
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Samuel E. Kane, the American supervisor and then Governor, established the capital here after the Philippine Commission passed the Mountain Province Act in 1908, [7] building a provincial building, hospital, doctor's office, nurse's home, a school, and provincial prison. [8] : 281–284 He also built the Tagudin-Bontoc trail, which by 1926, could accommodate a small car. [8] : 329
Bontoc was one of several municipalities in Mountain Province which would have been flooded by the Chico River Dam Project during the Marcos dictatorship, alongside Bauko, Sabangan, Sagada, Sadanga, and parts of Barlig. [9] However, the indigenous peoples of Kalinga Province and Mountain Province resisted the project and when hostilities resulted in the murder of Macli-ing Dulag, the project became unpopular and was abandoned before Marcos was ousted by the 1986 People Power Revolution. [10]
In the 19th Congress of the Philippines, house bills were filed by various representatives which seeks Bontoc including other capital towns of provinces with no current component cities, independent component cities or highly urbanized cities to automatically convert into cities. [11] [12] [13]
Bontoc is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
Climate data for Bontoc, Mountain Province | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 23 (73) | 24 (75) | 25 (77) | 27 (81) | 27 (81) | 26 (79) | 25 (77) | 25 (77) | 25 (77) | 25 (77) | 24 (75) | 23 (73) | 25 (77) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16 (61) | 16 (61) | 17 (63) | 19 (66) | 20 (68) | 21 (70) | 21 (70) | 21 (70) | 20 (68) | 19 (66) | 18 (64) | 17 (63) | 19 (66) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 35 (1.4) | 46 (1.8) | 63 (2.5) | 117 (4.6) | 402 (15.8) | 400 (15.7) | 441 (17.4) | 471 (18.5) | 440 (17.3) | 258 (10.2) | 94 (3.7) | 68 (2.7) | 2,835 (111.6) |
Average rainy days | 9.9 | 9.5 | 13.9 | 18.9 | 26.0 | 27.3 | 28.9 | 28.5 | 26.1 | 19.7 | 14.5 | 12.8 | 236 |
Source: Meteoblue (modeled/calculated data, not measured locally) [14] |
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Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [15] [16] [17] [18] |
Most inhabitants speak the Bontoc language, with other major languages being Kankana-ey and Ilocano. Minor languages spoken include Tagalog, Pangasinan, Cuyonon and Butuanon. [19]
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The local economy depends largely on small trades and agriculture. This capital town's biggest economic potential is tourism with its smaller rice terraces in Barangay Bay-yo, Maligcong and other areas. [27]
Bontoc, belonging to the lone congressional district of the province of Mountain Province, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the councilors are elected directly by the people through an election which is being held every three years.
Members of the Municipal Council (2019–2022): [28]
The highland town of Bontoc is home to two National Cultural Treasures of the Philippines. These are the Stone Agricultural Calendar of Bontoc and Petroglyphs of Alab. [29]
The Alab petroglyphs are ancient figures carved on mountain walls by the prehistoric people of Bontoc. [30] The petroglyphs are the most important ancient rock art carvings in the Cordilleras and the second oldest in the entire country, second only to the Angono petroglyphs of Rizal. Due to its high significance, it was submitted by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts of the Philippines to the UNESCO Tentative List of Heritage Sites in 2006, pending its inclusion in the World Heritage List along with the Singanapan charcoal-drawn petrographs of southern Palawan, Angono petroglyphs of Rizal province, charcoal-drawn Peñablanca petrographs of Cagayan, and the Anda red hermatite print petrographs of Bohol.
Mountain Province State Polytechnic College is the first tertiary institution in the municipality that offers various undergraduate and graduate courses.
XiJen College of Mountain Province is the only private tertiary institution that also offers technical-vocational courses.
Mountain Province is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc. Mountain Province was formerly referred to as Mountain in some foreign references. The name is usually shortened by locals to Mt. Province.
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