Wooohhh… I'm really busy this days and I was not able to collect pictures to be posted here. I really want to post stories and pictures here about the province of Capiz.
For those who are interested to feature their pictures and stories about your experiences here in capiz, you can submit it to the site's email address capiz2007@gmail.com. We will be very glad if you'll be contributing for the province of Capiz. Capizeño, this is our pride and treasure and let us be united in promoting our province… God bless everyone and I'm expecting for your contributions.
Unofficial Capiz Blog (Capiz, Another Paradise in the Philippines Blog) supports the goal of Paradise Philippines SEO Keyword Contest by MACALUA.COM in promoting the Philippines beauty and culture worldwide through the said contest.
Using the ability of many SEO Experts in promoting our Paradise Philippines is really a good idea. This will inform everyone from every place of the world that the Philippines is a paradise that needs to be discovered. At least this will put make-ups on the different blemishes of the country and will put to limelight the best that you can get from Paradise Philippines. I hope this make-ups will be a permanent tag to our country and this will lift different travel advisories lifted by some countries against the Philippines. Its possible if we simply practice the "bayanihan" spirit that we believe to be originally in ourselves and not the "crab mentality" that is planted by previous foreign invaders. Maybe we will be one of the most prosperous country in Asia very soon and be tagged as Paradise Philippines! Mabuhay!
It's always raining every night here in Capiz. PAGASA is expecting 3 typhoons this month. Farmers here starts planting their next crops for the year (rice). Temporary flood again in some roads & sand and gravel from somewhere scattering the roads, woah, really slippery (I don't know who will clean the roads from scattered soils, sands, & gravels! - Land Slides) We're still passing the rocky roads of partially cemented roads of the City and the moon-like provincial roads (moon-like because there's a lot of craters specially this rainy days). Prices in the wet market increases due to the rain specially the fishes and vegetables but prices here is more affordable compare to other places in the Philippines.
We were not able to take new pictures this past weeks due to busy and hectic schedules. Next week more pictures from Unofficial Capiz Blog.
For the sake of those who are not familiar of the place, these are some of the description of the province of Capiz, which I gather from different websites including the Capiz Government website.
Dubbed as the “Seafood Capital of the Philippines”, Capiz boasts of its 80-kilometer coastline and wide expanse of swampy lands easily converted into fishponds. It holds one of the richest fishing grounds and a major contributor in the aquamarine industry.
A place full of enchantment and mystery, several legends and beliefs claim stories to which the name “Capiz” originated.
More popular of these is that it comes from the word “Kapid” (which means twin). When Spaniards settled in the place they found difficulty in pronouncing the name Kapid, thus giving birth to the word “Capiz”.
Still, some old folks claimed that Capiz got its name from “Kapis” a shell of the mollusk family that is very much abundant in the place.Capiz is one of the provinces comprising the Western Visayas Region. It is composed of 16 municipalities, 1 city and 473 barangays. Under the 2000 Census, it has a population of 654,156 with an average annual population growth rate of 0.95% ( the lowest in Western Visayas).
Capiz is blessed with a very rich fishing grounds that made it popular as the Seafood Capital of the Philippines. Farming and fishing are the primary sources of income of the people. Apart from a surplus of agricultural products it generates every year, Capiz is also the country’s major suppliers of prawn and bangus. Source: http://www.capiz.gov.ph/
Capiz is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is Roxas City and is located at the northeastern portion of Panay Island, bordering Aklan and Antique to the west, and Iloilo to the south. Capiz faces the Sibuyan Sea to the north. Capiz is known for its mother-of-pearl shells that have the same name and are used for decoration, making lampshades, trays, window doors, etc..There are main version on how Capiz got its name:1) 'Akean' and 'Kapid'(meaning) which Balingangan, Datu Bangkaya's eldest son, names his territories in honor of his twin daughters.(2) When the Spaniards established a settlement, they found an abundance of a mollusk called 'pios' or 'kapid', the old native native name which has also come to known as Capiz.
Capiz became the second Spanish settlement after Cebu when Captain Diego de Artienda, sent by Legaspi landed in the town of Panay and proclaimed it the capital of the province. The capital was then moved to the present location of Roxas City. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capiz
I have uploaded several pictures from President Roxas, Ma-ayon and Panay, Capiz, paradise Philippines. It was taken by my friend kleansy using his N73 cellphone while his traveling back to his home town.
These pictures were taken using kleansy's digital camera. See nature's best of Lutod-lutod.
The land of President Roxas (Lutod-lutod), Capiz. The field that is about to be planted with sugar cane (tubo). Great site ha? Thanks to Kleansy's Eyes 
The following pictures were taken from the Ma-ayon's Rice and Sugar Cane fields. It's quite gloomy because its about to rain that time.
Green Fields of Ma-ayon!
The next pictures were taken in Panay, Capiz, Philippines, The famous Panay Church were you can found the biggest Church Bell in Asia. This was taken before or about six o' clock in the evening.
Panay Church before six o' clock!
Panay Church at 6 o' clock in the evening.
Capiz is really rich with different nice and historical places. That's only found in Capiz, Paradise Philippines. Mabuhay!
