Botlog Island

Botlog
	Botlog Location within the Philippines
Geography
Coordinates	11°13′52″N123°9′30″E / 11.23111°N 123.15833°E Coordinates: 11°13′52″N123°9′30″E / 11.23111°N 123.15833°E
Archipelago	Concepcion Islands
Adjacent bodies of water	Visayan Sea
Highest elevation	113 m (371 ft)
Administration
	Philippines
Region	Western Visayas
Province	Iloilo
Municipality	Concepcion
Barangay	Botlog
Demographics
Population	441 (2010)

Last updated June 14, 2019

Botlog Island is an island and barangay in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is part of the municipality of Concepcion. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 441.^[1]

Barangay administrative division in the Philippines

A barangay or baranggay, formerly referred to as barrio, is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. In metropolitan areas, the term often refers to an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood. The word barangay originated from balangay, a kind of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines.

Iloilo is a province located in the region of Western Visayas in the Philippines. Iloilo occupies a major southeast portion of the Visayan island of Panay and is bordered by the province of Antique to the west, Capiz to the north, the Jintotolo Channel to the northeast, the Guimaras Strait to the east, and the Iloilo Strait and Panay Gulf to the southwest.

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. Bounded by the South China Sea on the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest, the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south.

Location and geography

Botlog Island is east of Panay Island in the Visayan Sea. Part of the Concepcion Islands, Botlog is in between Igbon Island and Pan de Azucar Island.^[2] Botlog is a forested island and is 113 metres (371 ft) at its highest point.^[3] Its sole barangay is Botlog.

Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth most-populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of 12,011 km² (4,637 sq mi) and with a total population of 4,477,247. Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. The City of Iloilo is its largest settlement with a total population of 447,992 inhabitants. It is a triangular island, located in the western part of the Visayas. It is about 160 km (99 mi) across. It is divided into four provinces: Aklan, Antique, Capiz and Iloilo, all in the Western Visayas Region. Just closely off the mid-southeastern coast lies the island-province of Guimaras. It is located southeast of the island of Mindoro and northwest of Negros across the Guimaras Strait. To the north and northeast is the Sibuyan Sea, Jintotolo Channel and the island-provinces of Romblon and Masbate; to the west and southwest is the Sulu Sea and the Palawan archipelago and to the south is Panay Gulf. Panay is the only main island in the Visayas whose provinces don't bear the name of their island.

The Visayan Sea is a sea in the Philippines surrounded by the islands of the Visayas: Western Visayas, Eastern Visayas, and Central Visayas to the south. It is bounded by the islands Masbate to the north, Panay to the west, Leyte to the east, and Cebu & Negros to the south.

The Concepcion Islands are 17 variously inhabited and uninhabited islands in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. The islands are politically subdivided into 11 island barangays and are part of the municipality of Concepcion. Collectively, the islands have -according to 2010 census- a population of 19,080, which is 48 percent the total population of Concepcion.

Natural disasters

Typhoon Haiyan

Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) passed over Botlog Island in 2013, damaging boats and homes. The VICTO National region 6 office helped in relief efforts, distributing emergency food rations.^[4]

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References

↑ "2010 Census of Population and Housing" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 2010. p. 61. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
↑ U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Reuben Jacob Christman (1919). United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 225. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
↑ "Sailing Directions (Enroute) Philippine Islands" (PDF). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2008. p. 92. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
↑ "VICTO National Deliver Relief Effort to Botlog, Concepcion, Iloilo". VICTO National. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

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[Pop-1] "2010 Census of Population and Housing" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 2010. p. 61. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

[2] U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Reuben Jacob Christman (1919). United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 225. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

[3] "Sailing Directions (Enroute) Philippine Islands" (PDF). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2008. p. 92. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

[4] "VICTO National Deliver Relief Effort to Botlog, Concepcion, Iloilo". VICTO National. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.