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Ticao (island)
Ticao Island is an island with a total land area of . It is one of the three major islands of Masbate province in the Philippines. It is separated from the Bicol Peninsula by the Ticao Pass. The other two major islands are Masbate Island () and Burias Island (). The island is divided into the municipalities of Batuan, Monreal, San Fernando and its mother-town, San Jacinto. San Miguel Island is located "just off the northern tip" of Ticao Island. Archaeological and ecological landscape and seascape of Ticao Ticao island is known as an ''archaeological landscape'', possessing thousands of precolonial artifacts such as the Baybayin-inscribed Rizal Stone, Ticao gold spike teeth, burial jars of varying designs and sizes, jade beads, human face rock statues, and the ''Ticao petrographs''. Much of the homes in Ticao island use these archaeological finds to design their interiors. The island is also an ''ecological frontier'' for the conservation of manta rays Manta ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters. The mission's Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were joined in orbit in 2024 by a third, Sentinel-2C, and in the future by Sentinel-2D, eventually replacing the A and B satellites, respectively. The mission supports services and applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality. Sentinel-2 has been developed and is being operated by the European Space Agency. The satellites were manufactured by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Overview The Sentinel-2 mission includes: * Multispectral image, Multi-spectral data with 13 bands in the Visible spectrum, visible, Infrared#Regions within the infrared, near infrared, and Infrared#Regions within the infrared, short wave infrared part of the Electromagnetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masbateño People
The Masbateño people refers to the people who lived in the Masbate province of the Philippines, which is part of the Bicol Region. They are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. Demographics The Masbateño 677,942 in 2010. They are the descendants of the Austronesian-immigrants who came from South China during the Iron Age who probably came to Masbate after reaching the more southern Visayan islands. Masbateños may be considered Visayans by language but are Bicolanos by region. They speak the Masbateño language, a Visayan language and almost all practice Roman Catholicism. Culture Most of the people of Masbate speak Masbateño a language that is closely related to Hiligaynon and Capiznon. However, in various municipalities of the island, various other languages are spoken. In the vicinity of the towns of Cataingan, Palanas and Dimasalang, most residents speak Waray-Waray. In Pio Corpuz the people speak C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manta Rays
Manta rays are large Batoidea, rays belonging to the genus ''Mobula'' (formerly its own genus ''Manta''). The larger species, ''Giant oceanic manta ray, M. birostris'', reaches in width, while the smaller, ''Reef manta ray, M. alfredi'', reaches . Both have triangular Pectoral fin#AnchPectoral, pectoral fins, horn-shaped cephalic fins and large, forward-facing mouths. They are classified among the Myliobatiformes (stingrays and relatives) and are placed in the Family (biology), family Eagle ray, Myliobatidae (eagle rays). They have the largest brain-to-body ratio of all fish, and can pass the mirror test. Mantas are found in warm temperate, subtropical and tropical waters. Both species are Pelagic fish, pelagic; ''M. birostris'' Animal migration, migrates across open oceans, singly or in groups, while ''M. alfredi'' tends to be resident and coastal. They are filter feeders and eat large quantities of zooplankton, which they gather with their open mouths as they swim. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baybayin
Baybayin (,), also sometimes erroneously referred to as alibata, is a Suyat, Philippine script widely used primarily in Luzon during the 16th and 17th centuries and prior to write Tagalog language, Tagalog and to a lesser extent Visayan languages, Kapampangan language, Kampampangan, Ilocano language, Ilocano, and several other Philippine languages. Baybayin is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Its use was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet during Spanish Colonization in the Philippines, Spanish rule, though it has seen limited modern usage in the Philippines. The script is encoded in Unicode as Tagalog (Unicode block), Tagalog block since 1998 alongside Buhid script, Buhid, Hanunoo script, Hanunoo, and Tagbanwa scripts. The Archives of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila holds the largest collection of extant writings using Baybayin. Baybayin has seen increasing modern usage in the Philippines. Today, Baybayin is often used for cultural and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty Of Ticao Island
Beauty is commonly described as a feature of objects that makes them pleasurable to perceive. Such objects include landscapes, sunsets, humans and works of art. Beauty, art and taste are the main subjects of aesthetics, one of the fields of study within philosophy. As a positive aesthetic value, it is contrasted with ugliness as its negative counterpart. One difficulty in understanding beauty is that it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be "in the eye of the beholder". It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the "sense of taste", can be trained and that the verdicts of experts coincide in the long run. This suggests the standards of validity of judgments of beauty are intersubjective, i.e. dependent on a group of judges, rather than fully su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Miguel Island (Masbate)
San Miguel Island is an island under the jurisdiction of the Philippine province of Masbate. The island has a lighthouse mounted atop a concrete tower. San Miguel Island is located "just off the northern tip" of Ticao Island. See also * List of islands of the Philippines As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands clustered into Island groups of the Philippines, three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited,Islands of Masbate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burias (island)
Burias Island is one of the three major islands of Masbate province in the Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot .... It is separated from the Bicol Peninsula by the Burias Pass. The other two major islands are Ticao Island and Masbate Island. The island has two municipalities, Claveria and San Pascual. References Islands of Masbate {{BicolR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masbate (island)
Masbate Island is the largest of three major islands of Masbate Province in the Philippines. The other two major islands are Ticao Island and Burias (island), Burias Island. It is the 11th-largest island in both area and population in the Philippines and the List of islands by area, world's 155th largest island by area and the List of islands by population, world's 70th most populous island. The island is divided into 14 municipalities and 1 city, and has a total population of 731,269 people as of 2020 census. Masbate City is the island's largest settlement with a total population of 104,522 as of 2020. Masbate Island was severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan, Super Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013, which caused the evacuation of about 15,700 people. References External links * Masbate Information Service Website Islands of Masbate {{BicolR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicol Peninsula
The Bicol Region, designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines. It comprises six provinces, four on the Bicol Peninsula (the southeastern end of Luzon): Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Sorsogon, and two off the shore: Catanduanes and Masbate. The regional center is Legazpi, the most populous city in the region and has one independent component city, the pilgrim city of Naga. The region is bounded by Lamon Bay to the north, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Sibuyan Sea and Ragay Gulf to the west. The northernmost provinces, Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, are bordered to the west by the province of Quezon in the Calabarzon region. Geography The Bicol Region comprises the southern part of Luzon, the largest island in the Philippine archipelago. The total land area is 5.9% of the total land area of the country. Around 69.3% of the total land area is alienable and disposable while the remaining 30.7% is public forest are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waray-Waray People
The Waray people (or the Waray-Waray people) are a subgroup of the larger ethnolinguistic group Bisaya people, who constitute the 4th largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. Their primary language is the Waray language (also called Lineyte-Samarnon or Binisaya), an Austronesian language native to the islands of Samar, Leyte and Biliran, which together comprise the Eastern Visayas Region of the Philippines. Waray people inhabit most of Samar where they are called Samareños/Samarnons, the northern part of the island of Leyte where they are called Leyteños, and the island of Biliran. In Leyte island, the Waray-speaking people are separated from the Cebuano-speaking Leyteños by the island's mountain range at the middle. In the island-province of Biliran, Waray-speaking people live in the eastern part facing Samar island, and Maripipi Island; their Waray dialect is commonly referred to as ''Biliranon''. In Ticao island, belonging to Masbate province, Bicol R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jacinto, Masbate
San Jacinto, officially the Municipality of San Jacinto, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 29,686 people. San Jacinto is the commercial capital of Ticao Island. It is located on Ticao Island. Geography Barangays San Jacinto is politically subdivided into 21 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios. * Almiñe * Bagacay * Bagahanglad * Bartolabac * Burgos * Calipat-An * Danao * Dorong-an Daplian * Interior * Jagna-an * Luna * Mabini * Piña * District I (Poblacion) * District II (Poblacion) * District III (Poblacion) * District IV (Poblacion) * Roosevelt * San Isidro * Sta. Rosa * Washington Climate Demographics In the 2020 census, the population of San Jacinto, Masbate, was 29,686 people, with a density of . Economy Archaeological and Ecological Landscape and Seascape of Ticao The municipality is part of Ticao island, which is known as an ''archaeological landscape' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
