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The partial calendar list contains several of the oldest and larger religious and/or cultural festivals in the country. Each town, city, and village has a dedicated fiesta, resulting in thousands held throughout the year; a few are national in character. Some fiestas may contain multiple/conflicting dates and/or place entries.
The Palarong Pambansa ( Filipino for "National Games") is an annual multi-sport event involving student-athletes from 17 regions of the Philippines. The event, started in 1948, is organized and governed by the Department of Education . Student-athletes from public and private schools at elementary and secondary levels can compete, provided they ...
A 12th-grade student of a secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education; A graduate of any secondary school that is accredited by the Department of Education, or of any secondary school abroad; or; An individual that has been declared eligible to enter college according to the Philippine Educational Placement Test (PEPT ...
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.
Website. mmff .com .ph. The Metro Manila Film Festival ( MMFF) is an annual film festival organized by the Metro Manila Development Authority [ 1] and held nationwide in the Philippines. The festival, which runs from Christmas Day through New Year's Day and into first weekend of January in the following year, focuses on Filipino produced films.
2020 in the Philippines. 2020 in the Philippines details events of note that have occurred in the Philippines in 2020. This year is largely defined by COVID-19 pandemic that caused of the national economic recession and continued until the state of public health emergency was lifted in the country on July 21, 2023.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA; / ˌɛnsiː.eɪˈeɪ / ) is an athletic association of ten private colleges and universities in Metro Manila, Philippines. Established in 1924, it is the oldest collegiate athletic association in the country. [ 2 ] The Philippine NCAA is not affiliated with the NCAA of the United States.
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.