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Somebody redirected The Ilocano Diaspora and the North Luzon Super Region which had good info on it. Here's what was there...

Tagalog and IIlocanao have 14 constanets The Ilocanos are descendants of Austronesian-speaking people from southern China who reached northwestern Luzon. The families and clans arrived by boats called viray or bilog. The term Ilocano originated from the word looc, meaning cove or bay. So Ilocano means “people of the bay.” The Ilocanos also refer to themselves as Samtoy, a contraction from the phrase sao mi ditoy (our language here).

The Ilocanos are known to be frugal, resilient, industrious, patient, and resourceful people. These traits vital for survival are the results of the harsh geographical location and extreme weather patterns of their homeland, the Ilocos Coast.

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[edit] The Homeland

The Ilocos Coast is a narrow coastal plain with river deltas. When the written record began in the late sixteenth century, the “Ylocos” was already a coastal region of relative cultural homogeneity. According to G. P. Dasmariñas’s Relacion de las Islas Pilipinas, which was prepared for King Philip II of Spain in 1591, the Ilocos Coast was divided into three zones: Northern Ilocos, Middle Ilocos, and Southern Ilocos. The Northern Zone corresponds with the present province of Ilocos Norte and had an estimated population of 23,200. The Middle Zone includes the northern half of the contemporary Ilocos Sur and the Abra River valley and had an estimated population of 21,520. The Southern Ilocos covers the southern half of the modern day Ilocos Sur and the northern half of the present La Union and had an estimated population of 15,200. The total population of Ilocos Coast was about 10 percent of the total population of the entire Spanish colony as reported by Dasmariñas.

The Ilocos Coast contained only 3.1 percent of the total land area of the colony. The Ilocos population density in 1591 was 66 persons per thousand hectares of land, and was nearly three times the overall population density for the colony, which was only 22 persons per thousand hectares of land.

The Ilocos Coast has been heavily populated throughout its recorded past. Between 1817 and 1876, the region experienced an annual growth rate of 1.2 percent. By 1876, the regional population had reached one-half million. The growing population resulted to a high ratio of population to agricultural resources.

[edit] The Diaspora

The mounting population pressure due to the substantial population density during the mid-1800s caused the migration of the Ilocanos out of their historic homeland. By 1903, more than 290,000 Ilocanos migrated to Central Luzon, Cagayan Valley and Manila. More than 180,000 moved to Pangasinan, Tarlac, and Nueva Ecija. Almost 50,000 moved to Cagayan Valley; half of them resided in Isabela. Around 47,000 lived in Zambales.

The Ilocano Diaspora continued in 1906 when Ilocanos started to migrate to Hawaii and California. Later migrations brought Ilocanos to the Cordilleras, Aurora, Mindoro, Palawan, and Mindanao provinces of Sultan Kudarat, North Cotabato, and South Cotabato.

[edit] The Super Region

The North Luzon Super Region covers the homeland and the expansion areas of the Ilocanos. It includes the Ilocos Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Cagayan Valley, and the municipalities of the provinces of Tarlac (north of Tarlac City), Nueva Ecija (north of Cabanatuan City), Zambales (north of Subic) and Aurora (north of Baler).

[edit] Reference

Doeppers, Daniel F. and Xenos, Peter. Population and History. Quezon City: Ateneo University Press, 1998

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