Dubbed as the "Seafood Capital of the Philippines", Capiz boasts of its 80-kilometer coastline and wide expanse of swampy land easily covered into fishponds. It holds one of the country's richest fishing grounds and is a major contributor to the aquamarine industry.
Full of enchantment and mystery, Capiz claims to possess several legends and beliefs from which the name "Capiz" originated. More popular of these belief stories is that Capiz comes from the word "kapid" (which means twin). When the Spaniards settled in the place, they found it difficult to pronounce the word "kapid" thus giving birth to the name "Capiz". Still , some old folks claim 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. Based on the 2007 Census, it has a population of 701,664, with an average annual population growth of 0.97% (the second lowest in Region VI). Farming and fishing are the primary sources of income of the people. Capiz is blessed with very rich fishing grounds that makes it popular as the "Seafood Capital of the Philippines". Apart from the surplus of agricultural products it generates each year, Capiz is also the country's major supplier of prawns and milkfish.
Legends have it that the name of Capiz came from Akean and Kapid (meaning -"twin") which Balingagan, Datu Bangkaya's eldest son, named his "sakups" (territories) in honor of his twin daughters "Bulan and Adlaw" (Moon and Sun). Another version was based on the story that when the Spaniards came to settle it was the time when the wife of Bangkaya (head of the Aklan District then) gave birth to twin daughters. Twin in the local dialect is "kapid" but the settling Spaniards adopted the name of "Capiz" either due to their difficulty in pronouncing the "d" in "kapid" or as inadvertently miscommunicated to them by the natives. Still, some old folks believed that Capiz got it's name from "Kapiz" or "pios" (a shell in the mollusk family) which were found in abundance at the time.
Centuries before the coming of the Spaniards to the country, Capiz was one of the early settlements of the Malays. It formed part of the Confederation of Madya-as after the purchase of Panay Island by the Bornean Datus from the Negrito King Marikudo.
Panay was divided into three major districts and the Aklan District that included Capiz was formally formed in 1223. Later, Datu Kalantiao, heading the Madya-as Confederation and as chief of Panay Island, promulgated the famous code of Kalantiao sometime in 1433. In the Spanish era, Capiz became the second Spanish settlement in the Philippines when the Spaniards, under the Miguel Lopez de Legaspi entered Pan-ay, a town of Capiz, in 1569. May 8, 1570 marked the conquest of Panay and consequently the district of Aklan under the leadership of Martin de Gotti. Capiz was created into a separate "encomienda" and later was organized into a politico-military province in 1716, emracing the neighboring islands of Romblon, Nuestra de Campo, Tablas and Sibuyan.
Capiz, was not the capital of the province but the town of Pan-ay. However, when the Spanish discovered that Capiz is near the sea and had better docking facilities for their galleons, they moved the capital to its present site.
The Americans established a civil government on April 15, 1901. Simplicio Jugo Vidal was appointed by William Howard Taft as first Municipal President. On May 12, 1951, the town of Capiz was converted into the City of Roxas, named after one of its' most illustrious and famous son -- the late First President of the Philippine Republic Manuel Acuña Roxas. In 1954, by virtue of the R.A. 1414, Aklan was separated from Capiz and made into a distinct province.
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Full of enchantment and mystery, Capiz claims to possess several legends and beliefs from which the name "Capiz" originated. More popular of these belief stories is that Capiz comes from the word "kapid" (which means twin). When the Spaniards settled in the place, they found it difficult to pronounce the word "kapid" thus giving birth to the name "Capiz". Still , some old folks claim 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. Based on the 2007 Census, it has a population of 701,664, with an average annual population growth of 0.97% (the second lowest in Region VI). Farming and fishing are the primary sources of income of the people. Capiz is blessed with very rich fishing grounds that makes it popular as the "Seafood Capital of the Philippines". Apart from the surplus of agricultural products it generates each year, Capiz is also the country's major supplier of prawns and milkfish.
Legends have it that the name of Capiz came from Akean and Kapid (meaning -"twin") which Balingagan, Datu Bangkaya's eldest son, named his "sakups" (territories) in honor of his twin daughters "Bulan and Adlaw" (Moon and Sun). Another version was based on the story that when the Spaniards came to settle it was the time when the wife of Bangkaya (head of the Aklan District then) gave birth to twin daughters. Twin in the local dialect is "kapid" but the settling Spaniards adopted the name of "Capiz" either due to their difficulty in pronouncing the "d" in "kapid" or as inadvertently miscommunicated to them by the natives. Still, some old folks believed that Capiz got it's name from "Kapiz" or "pios" (a shell in the mollusk family) which were found in abundance at the time.
Centuries before the coming of the Spaniards to the country, Capiz was one of the early settlements of the Malays. It formed part of the Confederation of Madya-as after the purchase of Panay Island by the Bornean Datus from the Negrito King Marikudo.
Panay was divided into three major districts and the Aklan District that included Capiz was formally formed in 1223. Later, Datu Kalantiao, heading the Madya-as Confederation and as chief of Panay Island, promulgated the famous code of Kalantiao sometime in 1433. In the Spanish era, Capiz became the second Spanish settlement in the Philippines when the Spaniards, under the Miguel Lopez de Legaspi entered Pan-ay, a town of Capiz, in 1569. May 8, 1570 marked the conquest of Panay and consequently the district of Aklan under the leadership of Martin de Gotti. Capiz was created into a separate "encomienda" and later was organized into a politico-military province in 1716, emracing the neighboring islands of Romblon, Nuestra de Campo, Tablas and Sibuyan.
Capiz, was not the capital of the province but the town of Pan-ay. However, when the Spanish discovered that Capiz is near the sea and had better docking facilities for their galleons, they moved the capital to its present site.
The Americans established a civil government on April 15, 1901. Simplicio Jugo Vidal was appointed by William Howard Taft as first Municipal President. On May 12, 1951, the town of Capiz was converted into the City of Roxas, named after one of its' most illustrious and famous son -- the late First President of the Philippine Republic Manuel Acuña Roxas. In 1954, by virtue of the R.A. 1414, Aklan was separated from Capiz and made into a distinct province.
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