MAASIN, Iloilo

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THE BAMBOO CAPITAL OF THE PHILIPPINES Maasin, Iloilo, Philippines LOCATION AND LAND AREA. The Municipal of Maasin is located at the West central part of Iloilo Province, bounding the northern part by the Municipality of Janiuay, on the east by the Municipality of Cabatuan, on the south by the Municipal of Alimodian and on the nonwestern by the mountain ranges of the province of Antique. The distance is 30 kms. from the City of Iloilo. It has a total land area of 12,859 hectares as of 2007. FESTIVAL. The municipality of Maasin Iloilo is famous of its annual "Tultugan Festival" showcasing Maasin’s bamboo industry. Set one day before the town fiesta, Tultugan Festival features competition of tribes and street dancing with participants wearing native costumes made of bamboo as dominant material and dancing to the live beats of bamboo instruments. Tultugan comes from the root word Tultug, an action verbalizing the act of playing sound on bamboo. Usually this is rendered through a bamboo stick striking it against the body of the bamboo, thus becoming a rhythmic instrument called Tultugan. This is classified in ethno musicological term as idiophone because the source of sound is the body of the instrument being used as percussion in contrast to the membranophone where a membrane or animal skin is being struck as a drum. The culture of playing the Tultugan is not static, in fact its dynamicity is manifested in the making of more bamboo-based instruments. Every year, the Tultugan Festival features the newly created one, a proof of the people’s ingenuity and creativity. The challenge is taken increasingly by more people of Maasin to think of improving the musical instruments and consider how aesthetics and function can contribute, particularly to dance. This is a culture that evolves. To this day, the Tultugan Festival of Maasin continues to be the host of communal participation and creative inputs. Mayor Mariano Malones Sr, is considered the father of Tultugan Festival for initiating it in 1999. Through the years, Tultugan Festival has evolved into one of the better local festivals in the province of Iloilo and once a champion in the Kasadyahan of the Iloilo Dinagyang Festival in its second year of participation, a proof of how much they have improved in the last couple of years. GEOGRAPHY. Maasin has terrain ranging from the plain to strongly hilly and mountainous. Mountainous areas cover approximately 8,212.8 hectares or 48% of the total municipal areas located at northwestern portion of the town. All of the urban barangays are located in the lowlands. Soil found in Maasin is clay-loam suited to agricultural crops. By nature, rocks formation is present in mountainous areas of the Municipality of Maasin which cover almost 30% of the total Land area. POPULATION. The Municipality of Maasin has a total population of 32,555 based on the result of the Census of Population as of May 1, 2010. Maasin is politically subdivided into 50 Barangays and has a total registered voters of 19,986 in 2010. References: National Statistics Office, Census of Population (As of May 1, 2010) Socio Economic Profile of Maasin http://www.oocities.org/dost6/iloilo/... Philippine Standard Geographic Code http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/ps... Dark Media Creations Team: TM Malones Haycia Kamil Olivar Nathan Sotto Allain Hablo Phoebet Gamez Wilfredo Buncal Aerial footages by RStudio Productions Music by Rodrigo Sotto, Jr. DMC © 2016