KNOWING YOUR

COMMUNITY –
APAYAO
PROVINCE
By: JHENEL VITALES
JACINTO ALLAM
ANGELO JAVIER
JOVAL ALBITO
JAY MARC BARASI
OBJECTIVES:
 IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING:

 Community Type

 Indigenous Group

 Topography

 Short Background / History

 Present Highest Local Official

 Religion (s)

 Feasts / Festivals

 Community Educational Resources

 Source of income

 Available establishments
COMMUNITY TYPE
 RURAL -
 agricultural setting, but some areas contain forests.
 With a population of 124,366 (as of the 2020 census) covering an area of 4,413.35 square
kilometres (1,704.00 sq mi), Apayao is the least densely-populated province in the Philippines.
INDIGENOUS GROUP
 The Isnegs, Ilocanos, and Itawits form the majority of the people living in the province of
Apayao.
 The Isnegs are the indigenous people of the province and are interchangeably referred as
Apayaos. The term "Isneg" was derived from a combination of "is" meaning "recede" and
"uneg" meaning "interior". Thus, it means people who have gone into the interior. The
Ilocanos inhabit the river valleys and plains and most migrated into the region in the last fifty
years.
TOPOGRAPHY
 The river courses along the heartlands of the province, meanders beside the town of Kabugao
following a northward route towards the Pacific Ocean through the coastal town of Abulug,
Apayao. The province is classified into upper and lower. Upper Apayao with 3 municipalities
occupies 67.2% of the total land area and has mountainous topography classified by towering
peaks, plateaus and intermittent patches of valleys. Lower Apayao on the other hand with 4
municipalities is 32.8% of the total land area is generally flat with rolling mountains and
plateaus.
SHORT BACKGROUND /
HISTORY
 The Americans established the Mountain Province on August 13, 1908, with the enactment of
Act No. 1876. Apayao, along with Amburayan, Benguet, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and
Lepanto, became sub-provinces of this new province. Before this, Apayao had been a part of
Cagayan province. Apayao is devoted to agricultural production, particularly food and
industrial crops such as palay, corn, coffee, root crops and vegetables. Fruits produced include
lanzones, citrus, bananas and pineapples, durian, santol, rambutan, coconut and mangosteen.
PRESENT HIGHEST LOCAL
OFFICIAL
 GOVERNOR (GOV. ELEANOR C. BULUT-BEGTANG)
RELIGION (S)
 Catholic, Baptist, Methodists,, Iglesia ni Cristo, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints (Mormon), Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist and other Christian groups
FEASTS / FESTIVALS
 Say-am Festival of Apayao which is celebrated every February 14.It is in celebration of the
founding anniversary of the province and Isnag’s grandest feast or celebration A feast
featuring and ushering the traditional way of Isnag’s thanksgiving to the Higher Supreme
unseen being called “ALAWAGAN” executed and commenced through rituals spiced with pep
songs, native chants and dances called the “TALIP and TAD-DO”. The holding and
celebration of Say-am in the older days connotes status – that the family is respectable and
well-to-do.The Festival highlights the Agro-Tourism and trade fair which showcase the
different products and beauty of natures of Apayao,Isnag Indigenous games,Sports,Street
dancing and the Search for Miss Dayag ti Apayao which showcase the Beautiful and
intelligent Ladies of Apayao
COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
 SCHOOLS, LABORATORIES ( MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, COMPUTER)
SOURCE OF INCOME
 Apayao is devoted to agricultural production, particularly food and industrial crops such as
palay, corn, coffee, root crops and vegetables. Fruits produced include lanzones, citrus,
bananas and pineapples, durian, santol, rambutan, coconut and mangosteen. Rice production
totaled 98,489 metric tons in 2011.
 Government EMPLOYEE, Selling
AVAILABLE
ESTABLISHMENTS
 Market, School, Municipal Hall, Gymnasium, Hospital, Groceries Store
ADDITIONAL:
 Kalinga-Apayao was formerly a sub-province of Mountain Province. On June 18, 1966,
Mountain Province was divided into four provinces and Kalinga-Apayao acquired the status of
a separate province by virtue of Republic Act 4695. Kalinga-Apayao province was split into
two provinces (Kalinga and Apayao) with the enactment of Republic Act No. 7878 on
February 14, 1995. During the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, Kalinga-Apayao was
included in Region II or the Cagayan valley Region. On July 15, 1987, President Corazon
Aquino signed Executive Order No. 220 creating the Cordillera Autonomous Region to which
Kalinga-Apayao belonged.