Submitted by: Reynalie B.

Manayon BEED III – A oct

Mountain Province
I – Description
 A landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in
Luzon.
 Capital is Bontoc
 Formerly dubbed as “ La Montanosa” by Spanish administrator.
 Mt. Province lies in the heart of the Grand Cordillera, known to be the Philippine's
biggest and highest chain of mountains.
 The province is bounded on the North by Kalinga, on the south by Benguet and Ifugao,
on the east by Isabela, and on the west by Ilocos Sur and Abra.
II – Historical Background
 On June 18,1966, Republic Act No. 4695 divided the old Mountain Province into four
provinces: Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga-Apayao, and the Mountain Province.
 Became a special province of the Philippines in 1907.
 Became an independent province on March 25 1967.
 June 15, 1987 – Mountain Province became part of CAR.
 April 7, 1967 – the new Mountain Province came into operation. (Mountain Province
Day)
III – Ethnic Group
 Bontoc Tribes live on the banks of the Chico River in the Central Mountain Province on
the island of Luzon. They speak Bontoc and Ilocano. They formerly practiced head-
hunting and had distinctive body tattoos. The Bontoc describe three types of tattoos: The
chak-lag′, the tattooed chest of the head taker; pong′-o, the tattooed arms of men and
women; and fa′-tĕk, for all other tattoos of both sexes.
 Kankaney. The Kankanaey’s domain includes Western Mountain Province, Northern
Benguet, Southeastern Ilocos Sur. Like most Igorot ethnic groups, the Kankanaey built
sloping terraces to maximize farm space in the rugged terrain of the Cordilleras.
Kankaney’s of Western Mountain Province from the municipalities of Sagada and Besao
identify themselves as part of a tribe called Applai or Aplai.

IV - Livelihood
 Agriculture – main source of livelihood
 Livestock
 Poultry Raising
 Vegetables and Root crops – major crops; second highest producer in the region
V – Historical Sites
 Hanging Coffins of (Sagada)
 Lumiang Cave
 Marlboro Hill
 St. Rita Cathedral (Bontoc)
 Blue Soil Hills / Kaman-utek Hills
 Alab Petroglyphs (bontoc)
 Bontoc Museum
 Maligcong Rice Terraces
 Bomod-Ok (big) Falls
 Kiltepan
 Echo Valley
 Road from Baguio to Bontoc

Delicacy
1. Etag - salt-cured pork
2. Heirloom rice biko - made of mountain violet sticky rice called ominio
3. Safeng - cassava sauerkraut
4. Tapey - Philippine rice wine
5. Tsu-om, Du-om - pinipig version using hand-picked young rice
6. Cinafa'y fanias - "roast monitor lizard using leaves found only in Cordillera"
7. Cinafa'y feclat - "roast snake using leaves found only in Cordillera"
8. Kinidlo'y makan, Kinidlo (Bontoc), Kinal-oy, Kinaley (Kankana-ey) - rice with a touch
of sweet potato
9. Arabica coffee
10.Lemon pie - uses Sagada lemons in Lemon Pie House
11.Pinikpikan - bloodied chicken ritual (for canao) soup; in Bontoc, etag is added
12.Etag, Inasin - smoked and air-dried pork
13.Sagada orange
14.Wild blueberry
15.Blueberry pie

FESTIVAL

1. Menaliyam Festival (December 3 2003)

2. Changyasan Festival (last week of April)
3. Fortan festival (around June)
4. Begnas di Bauko festival (March 8-10)
5. Linapet festival (last week of September)
6. Panag-apoy Festival (First of November)
7. Gagayam Festival (March 19-21)
8. Fvegnash Festival (Third week of June)
9. Ayyoweng de Lambak ed Tadian Festival (February )
10.Lang-ay Festival –famous festival in mountain province