Barangays of Boracay - Yapak, Balabag and Manoc-Manoc

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Barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as 'ba-rang-gai', gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. Municipalities and cities are composed of barangays. In place names barangay is sometimes abbreviated as "Brgy" or "Bgy". (as in Boracay Island)

The term barangay and its structure in the modern context was conceived during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, replacing the old barrios. The barangays were eventually codified under the 1991 Local Government Code.

Barangays of Boracay are made up of 3 barangays which is Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak

. Yapak lies in the north, Balabag in the center and Manoc-Manoc in the south. Within these barangays are smaller villages such as Angol, Manggayad and Bolabog. 3 of the 17 barangays which make up the municipality of Malay which is controlled by the Provincial Government of Aklan.

Boracay Island = 3 Boracay Barangays

* Yapak Boracay
* Balabag Boracay
* Manoc-Manoc Boracay

Malay is politically subdivided into = 17 Barangays
Malay is a Municipality of Aklan

Argao
Balabag
Balusbus
Cabulihan
Caticlan
Cogon
Cubay Norte
Cubay Sur
Dumlog

Manoc-Manoc
Naasug
Nabaoy
Napaan
Poblacion
San Viray
Yapak
Motag

A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipyo, in Tagalog) is a local government unit in the Philippines. Provinces are composed of cities and municipalities. Municipalities, in turn, are composed of barangays or barrios. Municipalities are also called towns, which actually is a better translation of bayan.

Aklan is politically subdivided into 17 Municipalities
Aklan is a Province of Panay Island

Municipalities of Aklan

Altavas
Balete
Banga
Batan
Buruanga
Ibajay
Kalibo
Lezo
Libacao

Madalag
Makato
Malay
Malinao
Nabas
New Washington
Numancia
Tangalan

Province (Filipino: lalawigan or probinsya) is the primary local government unit in the Philippines. The country is divided into 79 provinces, which are further subdivided into cities (lungsod) and municipalities (bayan). The National Capital Region, which includes the capital city Manila, is not divided into provinces.

The provinces are grouped into 17 regions (rehiyon) based on geographical, cultural, and ethnological characteristics. Fourteen of the regions are designated with numbers corresponding roughly with their geographic location from north to south. The National Capital Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao do not have a number designation.

The provincial government is headed by a governor (gobernador). For purposes of legislative representation, the province is divided into one or more congressional districts (distrito). Each city or municipality belongs to one of these districts. One congressman (kinatawan) represents each district in the House of Representatives. Every district also has board members in the Provincial Board

Panay Island is politically subdivided into 4 Provinces

1. Aklan Province
2. Antique Province
3. Capiz Province
4. Iloilo Province
The prominent city of the Panay island is Iloilo City.

Historically

Historically, a barangay is a relatively small community of around 50 to 100 families. Most villages have only thirty to one hundred houses and the population varies from one hundred to five hundred persons. According to Legazpi, he found communities with twenty to thirty people only. Many coastal villages in the Visayan region consisted of no more than eight to ten houses. The word itself is derived from an ancient Malayo-Polynesian boat called a balangay. It is commonly believed that in pre-colonial Philippines, each original coastal “barangay” formed as a result of settlers arriving by boat from other places in Southeast Asia.

When the Americans arrived, the term barrio went into prominence, as the barangays were called by that name. The term was kept for much of the twentieth century until Marcos ordered the renaming of the barrios back to barangay. The name has stuck ever since, though some people still use the old term.