Travel around the Jawili Falls
and Elephant Caves of Aklan, enjoy the great Spanish
architecture, waterfalls, springs and streams of Iloilo, visit
the birthplace of Manual Roxas, enjoy some of the excellent
seafood of Capiz
About Panay Philippines
Panay is an island in the Philippines
located in the Visayas. Politically, it is divided into four provinces:
Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and Iloilo, all in the Western Visayas region. It
is located southeast of the island of Mindoro and northwest of Negros,
separated by the Guimaras Strait. Between Negros and Panay lies the
island-province of Guimaras. To the north is the Sibuyan Sea and the
islands of Romblon; to the southwest is the Sulu Sea and the Panay Gulf.
The island has many rivers including Akean, Banica, Iloilo, and Panay.
Panay is the setting of the famous legend of Maragtas, which chronicled
the arrival of the Malay race to the Philippine islands.
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The island lent its name to several United States Navy vessels named USS
Panay, mostly famously the one sunk in 1937 by the Japanese in the Panay
incident.
Even though Panay is a microcosm of everything the Visayas has to offer,
the long white-sand beach at Boracay is all that many visitors to the
region, or for that matter the country, ever see. The rest of the region
keeps a low tourism profile, which helps explain the appeal of tropical
Guimaras - just a short commute from the pleasant and lively regional
capital of Iloilo City. Panay's little-explored interior is ringed by a
rugged coastline to the south and west and a more domesticated one,
dotted with impressive Spanish churches, to the north and east.
Adventure sports (particularly mountain biking, trekking, kayaking and
rock climbing) can be arranged out of Iloilo City.
The amazing Ati-Atihan Festival, held in Kalibo in January, is the most
famous fiesta of its kind in the Philippines. Much of Panay's festive
tradition can be traced back to its indigenous tribal groups, namely the
Ati and Ata. There are communities of both groups on the mainland.
