3-4 Flashcards
the Central
Plains of Luzon.
REGION 3
“Makata ng mga
Manggagawa
Mga Ibong Mandaragit
Amado Vera Hernandez
“Catholic Writer”
The Distance to Andromeda
and Other stories
Gregorio C. Brillanted
Impeng Negro
Rogelio Sicat
“Prince of the Filipino
Writer”
Librong pagaaralan nang mga
tagalog nang uicang castilla
Tomas Pinpin
Balagtasan, He is also the
“Prince of Tagalog
Poets”
Florante at Laura
Francisco Balagtas
“Mother of Philippine
folklore”
Philippine Proverb Love
Damiana L. Eugenio
- Most densely populated province, home to sprawling suburban
bedroom communities, but filled also with history as one of the provinces that
led the Philippine Revolution.
CAVITE
- Economic center, with an expanding economy depending on
industry and agriculture.
LAGUNA
- Cradle of Tagalog culture, and home to resorts, Spanish-era
town centers with heritage churches and houses, and the world’s smaller
volcano, Taal Volcano.
BATANGAS
- A province east of Metro Manila, with mountainous terrain
RIZAL
- Gateway to Bicol, also a growing eco-tourism destination. It is
the country’s leading coconut producer. Other major crops are rice, corn,
banana and coffee
QUEZON
happens every 15th of May in the municipality of
Lucban in honor of SAN ISIDRO LABRADOR, the Patron Saint of
Farmers.
PAHIYAS Festival
This festival happens every month of
August at Perez Park infront of the Quezon Provincial Capitol in
Lucena City.
NIYOGYUGAN FESTIVAL
This festival coincides with
the Mauban town fiesta every 15th of July in honor of Saint
Buenaventure, Patron Saint of Mauban. It is held to showcase the
locally- fermented “LAMBANOG” and unique cuisines of the town.
MAUBANOG FESTIVAL
- Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, discovered the island in 1569. Gold
sediments in the streams led the Spaniards to christen the island “Mina de Oro” or
“Gold Mine,” but that didn’t pan out to any great extent.
Mindoro Occidental
The island is sole home to the tamaraw, a wild relative of the
carabao, or water buffalo, with horns that grow up in a V instead of curving in. Exotic
birds and butterflies also abound.
Mindoro Oriental
- It has considerable mineral resources, but a disastrous leak of mine
tailings in 1996 forced the closure of the copper mines
Marinduque
- The province is famous for its marble quarries and marble products. It
also produces wood and wood products, and agricultural products and fish.
Romblon
- Its capital and only city is Puerto Princesa. is an archipelagic province of
the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in
the country in terms of total area of jurisdiction
Palawan
commonly known as AGA,
Known for “Ako ang Daigdig”
Alejandro G. Abadilla
a Filipino nationalist and polymath
during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national
hero of the Filipino people.
Jose Rizal
He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction,
poetry, drama, non-fiction and screenwriting, including 16 Palanca Awards
Jose y Dalisay Jr.
was one of the notable writers of the first generation of Filipino English writers, in both literary
writing and education. She was a poet, editor, author, and teacher.
Paz Latorena
Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist who created Darna, Dyesebel,
Captain Barbell, Lastikman, Bondying, Varga, Wanted: Perfect Mother,
Mars Ravelo
Rodavlas
wrote about 50 poems and 40 short stories
-won a gold medal award for best author in 1937
Salvador Rico Barros
Filipino Priest, Writer, and Historian
one of the founding members of the Philippine Academy of Science and Humanities
Horacio de la Costa
A Night in the Hills (1925)
● Dead Stars (1925)
Paz Márquez-Benítez
Mathematics, Creative Writing, and Creative Non-Fiction Professor, Poet
Alvin Capili Ursua
