Bicol

•Currently the Largest Producer of Sweet Potato •Grows an average length of 1.25cm, slightly longer
than DWARF GOBY ("Pandaca pygmea")
•3rd Largest producer of Cassava & Calamansi

•2nd in Abaca Production following Eastern Visayas

•Can inly be foynd in LAKE BATO & LAKE BUHI,
Camarines Sur
Camarines Sur

•Biggest Livestock and Poultry Production

•Region's main source of Carabao, Duck & Chicken

Dwarf Goby
•Overall largest fish producer
Scientific name: Pandaca pygmea

Camarines Norte

•Known as, "Gold Rich Paracale-Labo Panganiban"

Region V

Has most iron reserves, comprising 57% of the national

•Most efficient Commercial Fish Producer total

•Largest Gold & Copper deposit

Kaingin/ Slash-and-burn Cultivation

•3rd largest laterite iron deposit Eroded Bikol's Mountains to the detriment of its
lumbering industry

•90% of Bicol's Metals

ABCAR-PARAGON
•Center for Bicol's Gold Jewelry-making Industry
specializing in handcrafted filigree Monopolized large capital investments in lumbering

Masbate •Abaca craft

•Best inland fish producer •Machine

•Hogs and Goats are mostly raised •Handmade novelties

Most Communities engage in:

Sinarapan ("Mistichthys luzonensis")/ Tabios

•World's smallest commercial fish •Wall decor

•Mats Established in Camarines Norte and Masbate in 2018 to
Promote Sustainable & Responsible Mining
•Rugs

•Hat

•Slippers (made from strands of plaited abaca)

Tourism Industry
Handmade Novelties in Region V
•Tourist arrivals reached 1.29M in 2019

•Legazpi City has the highest no. of tourists at 576,000

Tiwi's Clay
(51%) of total tourist arrivals
•Used for decorative items like flower pots and water
jugs
•7 Million direct & indirect employees were affected
•Construction materials such as Clay & Bricks
because of Pandemic

Tabaco, Albay
•Traditional Occupation
•Region's 2nd largest cottage industry
•Agriculture
•Famous for their CUTLERY industry
•Fishing

Defined Region V's Geography

Cutlery

Includes scissors, Bolo & Knives, Razors & Chisels

•Economy

•Political System

•Social Organization & Customs

Lasa
•Religious Beliefs & Practices
Type of grass in CATANDUANES that is used for brooms
•Architecture & Community Planning
and dusters
•Visual Arts & Crafts

Bicol Characteristics According to its Features

Masbate Gold Project of Philippine Gold Processing

Produced 6,291 kgs. of Gold, 1.34% more than in 2018

3 Regional Trial Courts

13 Municipal Circuit Trial Courts

Number of Trial courts served in Bicol

Minahang Bayan/ People's Small Scale Mining Area
18 Members Congress Representatives from Masbate

Bicol is represented by __ members in the Congress

Dette Escudero (1st District)

Edcel Lagman (1st District) Wowo Fortes (2nd District)

Joey Sarte Salceda (2nd District) Congress Representatives from Sorsogon

Fernando T. Cabredo (3rd District)

Congress Repsresentatives from Albay

Regional Custom

Naming children according to their attributes/

conditions marking their birth
Josie Tallado (1st District)

Toots Panotes (2nd District)

ex: Magayon (Beautiful)
Congress Representative from Camarines Norte
Macusog (Strong)

Hori Horibata (1st District)

Traditional Courtship
Luis Raymund Jr. "LRay" F. Villafuerte (2nd District)
Usually pre-arranged & progressed in several stages
Gabriel Bordado Jr. (3rd District)

Arnie Fuentebella (4th District)

Migz Villafuerte (5th District)

1. Lagpitao/Palakaw-lakaw
Congress Representatives from Camarines Sur
2. Pasonco

3. Pag-agad/ Paninilbihan

4. Dote (Dowry)
Leo Rodriguez (Lone District)
5. Pagdodo
Congress Representative from Catanduanes
6. Sinakat

7. Ilinakad

Stages of Traditional Courtship

Richard Kho (1st District)

Ara Kho (2nd District)

Lagpitao
Wilton "Tonton" Tan Kho (3rd District)
Initial acquaintance through an intermediary Genealogical tracing to prevent incestuous alliances

Pasonco Pagcaya

Examination of prospective match by both parties The wedding feast

Pag-agad Purukan/ Hurulungan

Rendering of service by the groom to the bride's family Bestowing of gifts

Dote (Dowry) Pamalaye

Pre-Wedding Negotiations •Observed with greater simplicity, stripped of many of

its old formalities

•Same with Sayod

Pagdodo

Gift to the Bride's mother

•Hagol- Palm tree coffins

•Pasaca- Indigeneous funeral rites comprised of Basbas

Sinakat
•Basbas- Cleansing of corpse
Gift to the bride from a relative attending the wedding
•Dool- Dutiful reverence of the deceased

•Yokod- Recounting of deceased's life

•Tolodan- Big clay palate containing a dressed chicken

Ilinakad
w/o its innards
Extra fine if the bride was not the eldest in the family
Bikol Death Rites

Sayod
"da-y na maolang, padagoson mo an saimong lacao"
Drawing of the marriage covenant

"Tarry no longer; proceed to your journey"

Recited by the deceased's nearest kin before burial

Tronco
 Affliction rendering a tubercular appearance that is
believed to be cured only by witchcraft
•Lumay

•Hinaw

•Anting-anting
Nightbirds
•kibal
Convey ill omens
•Parabulong/ Arbulario

•Hilo/ Poison

Special Powers
Koro koro

Kikik/Tiktik

Examples of Nightbirds
Lumay

Love potion yielded by ancient witchcraft

"Tabi po, maki-agi po"

("Excuse me please, I would like to pass")

Hinaw
Acknowledges the invisible world
Thief detector

Sagurang
Anting-anting
•Post-harvest thanksgiving ritual
Also known as Amulets

•Retained by bicol farmers by way of offering food to

the spirits of their ancestors
Kibal

Makes one invulnerable to sharp objects

•Tamoy

•Talagbanhi
Parabulong/ Arbulario
•Rogotiva
Also known as Faith Healer
Agricultural rites that combines Indigeneous and
Hispanic influences

Hilo/ Poison
Tinagba
Celebrated in Iriga City after the harvest during Feast of Observed through Prayer and Rites
Corpus Christi

Handong Village
Tumatarok
Candato Village
•Prayer offering and oratory with song and dance given
Fundado Village
during May 11
Believed to be the site of "Pile Villages" or "Lake
Homes"
•Sanctifies a devition to San Felipe & San Santiago in
Minabalac, Camarines Sur

Castilla

Repopulation of the Coast after thr 19th century Muslim

Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia
invasion
•Patroness of Bikol

•Most popular and distinct manifestation of Bicol Faith

Magallanes

Establishment of Astilleros/ Shipyards w/c generated

•Endearingly addressed as, "ina" (Mother) employment and assured protection

•Feast on the 3rd Sunday of September,

commemorated with procession of the "Traslacion"
Barcelona
(Transfer) and a huge fluvial parade
Conflict of economic interest

Vivahan
irosin
Welcoming of New Year with cries of,
Conflict of Political Interest
"Viva sa bagong taon"

("Long live the new year!")

as songs. food, and money are thrown to the streets to

bring prosperity to the New Year Old Caceres

Huge Stone Cathedral in Naga that looms before a large

square

•Catholic Christmas

•Lenten Seasons
Seminario Concillar de Caceres Distinguished by its Capillas Posas/ Outdoor Altars

•Region's Oldest Seminary Building

•One of the few schools of Higher Learning open to Nuyda House

Filipinos in 19th Century
125 year old house in Camalig, Albay that has unusually
large Capiz panes measuring 7.5 x 7.5cm

Colegio de Santa Ysabel

1st normal school in the country Buenaventura-Pardiñas House

Has Renaissance-style molave balustrade in Guinobatan,

Albay

Franciscans

Churches were erected w/in 20 years following the

arrival of ___________ in 1578 Nieves-Guerriba House

Buenaventura-Pardiñas House

Display characteristically intricate carvings on their

molave door and panels
Daraga Church

•Exemplifies Folk Baroque Architecture

Pabico House
•Overlooking the ruins of the lava-colored town of
Cagsawa •Presents an interesting study in interior design

•Ceiling is 0ainted with cobwebs to attract insects

Naga's Cathedral Facade

Characterized as "Earthquake baroque" for its •Unusual geometric patterns over ita window create
Earthquake resistance shadows in the living room

Tabaco's Cemetery Valdeo (Pimentel) House

Dominated by an old arch and a domed cemetery •Gothic arches adorn the doorways & ceiling
chapel

•Grilled Ventanillas was an 1870 model

Camalig, Albay
 Antique styles of Art

Jaucian House

Have Windows as their most practical asset

Alpajor & Alakdan

Also known as Agrimon

Fuentebella House

•Exhibits stone carvings of religious themes

Agrimon

•Burned in 1950's, was a large stone & brick structure Flat necklace chain of 18th Century
linked to a smaller building at the back by a long
wooden bridge

Tamborin

Intricate golden bead necklace of 19th Century

Almera Residence

Landmark along Abella Street

Ely Arcilla

"Manlilikha ng Bayan"
Imperial

Hernandez

Macandog
Ely Arcilla
Abella
Continued on using tools and methods and the finishing
Arejola
process called, SINASAPO
Notable Bahay na bato

Sinasapo
Paracale
Produces reddish patina
•"Golden Country" in Camarines Norte

•Grown to be the Center of Jewelry-making Tradition

Kalanay Pottery

Specimens that are dug up in Masbate that have 15

different patterns combining triangles and scallops

•Agrimon

•Tamborin
Gayangan Cooking Pots

Pivoted turntable used by Women

Gripo

Hurnahan Unit faucet water jars

Cylindrical tin mold used in forming slabs for jar bodies

Kaldero

Pambikal Kettlekike pots

The paddles

Golgoreta

Gapu Pitchers

Anvil Stone

Pugon sa Uling

Hapin Charcoal burning stovesl

Top part of a broken jar wrapped in mat/sack

Masetera

Pambole Flower Pots

Polishing tools like lagan from a mollush or small glass

bottles

•Barcenas of Naga

•Neglerio of Nabua, Camarines Sur

Kawatan
Present masters of Craft
•Specialized novelties and toys in Baybay

•Sold near the town Church of Nuestra Señora de la

•Virgin
Salvacion
•San Antonio

•San Isidro Labrador

•Santo Niño
Koron
•Christ on the Cross

Favorite subjects of Craft

Art of Abaca Weaving

Long been developed in Albay & Camarines Sur

•Gayangan

•Hurnahan

•Pambikal

•Gapu

•Hapin

Tools used by women in BIGAJO NORTE

•Kawatan

•Koron

•Gripo

•Kaldero

•Golgoreta

•Pugon sa Uling

•Masetera

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