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ILOILO
"Food Basket & Rice Granary
 of Western Visayas"

FACTS & FIGURES

Land Area : 4,719.4 sq km (2004)
No. of Barangays: 1,901 (As of September 2003)
No. of Municipalities: 42 (As of September 2003)
No. of Cities: 2 (As of September 2003)
Total Population: 1,925,002 (As of May 1, 2000
                                                   census)         
Population Growth Rates: 2.10 (1995-2000)
Income Class: First
Consumer Price Index (2000=100): 114.4 (2004)
Inflation Rate: 5.2 (2004) 
Average Family Income: 110,114 (2000)
Average Family  Expenditure: 91,900 (2000)
No. of Elementary Schools:
     Public:   1,043 (SY 2003-2004)
     Private:  38 (SY 2002-2003)
No. of Secondary Schools:
     Public :  166 (SY 2003-2004)
     Private:  19 (SY 2002-2003)
No. of Tertiary Schools: 25 (SY 2003-2004)
No. of Licensed Hospitals: 20 (2003)
Telephone Loads: 50,254 (2003)
Telephone Density: 2.5 per 100 population (2003)
No. of AM Broadcast Stations: 7 (2003)
No. of FM Broadcast Stations: 12 (2003)
No. of Motor Vehicles Registered: 74,316 (2003)
No. of Establishments (3rd Qtr. 2004)
     Business Name Registration: 913   
Iloilo is in the central part of the Philippine archipelago and it stands as the gateway to Southern Philippines.  Iloilo City, the city capital of the province, is 45 minutes by plane from Metro Manila and is within the route of major shipping lines.

The Province takes pride in being the "Food basket and Rice granary of Western Visayas." As a leading rice producer, Iloilo devoted 194.4 thousand hectares to palay in 1995 which yielded a harvest of 553.5 thousand metric tons. About 20,800 hectares are planted to corn and 17,000 hectares planted to sugar cane. Various legumes, root crops, cereals, fruits such as mangoes, pineapple and citrus are harvested in commercial quantities.

Iloilo is one of the richest fishing grounds in the country. Its waters teem with grouper (lapulapu), tuna and blue marlin. Prawns, milkfish (bangus), shrimps and other popular marine varieties are cultured in fish farms. Marine resources are particularly abundant in the municipality of Estancia which has been called the  Alaska of the Philippines.

Iloilo hosts the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), a multi-national aquaculture research facility located in Tigbauan. SEAFDEC has been successful in its spawning of prawns and milkfish under controlled environments.

Iloilo was once the Queen City of the South and is determined to regain its crown. 
It was chosen as the site of the Regional Agro-industrial Center (RAIC) of Western Visayas.  A special economic zone in the municipality of Pavia which is approximately 9-11 km from the Iloilo airport is being developed by the private sector.

The most feasible business to locate in Pavia include agri-based industries; garment manufacturing; houseware production and gift toys; machinery and equipment manufacturing; packaging and canning; and electronics and chemical products manufacture.

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