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Philippines
/ South Mindanao / Digos
A town on
the way from General Santos City to Davao City, with no tourist
attractions.
Accommodation
Hotel
Yncierto - General Luna St, Tel 23-57
dbl 80, 160
(ac); suite 300-700; upper middle class hotel; "international
guests" pay almost double
Travelers'
Inn - sgl/dbl 40/60; basic
Digos
Lodging House - sgl/dbl 25/40; basic
B'laan
Settlements
There are 95,000
B'laans, a tribal minority, in South Cotabato Province. Unlike the
other indigenous cultural communities including the Manobos, Tibolis,
Ubos and Kalagans as well as Muslim groups (Tausogs, Maguindanaos
and Maranaos) who tended to cluster in a particular area, the B'laans
are scattered in pockets all over the province. The majority
farm and some make handicrafts and weave. Today they are on lands
generally considered undesirable where they were pushed when their
lands were opened to settlement in 1938 by President Manuel
Quezon. The new settlers cleared lands for pasture and logged the
virgin forests. The main dialect became Ilonggo (Hiligaynon) and
ways of life changed drastically.
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