BORACAY
Boracay is part of Aklan Province, which became an independent province on April 25, 1956.Sofia Gonzales Tirol and her husband Lamberto Hontiveros Tirol, a town judge on nearby Panay island, took ownership of substantial properties on the island around 1900 and planted coconuts, fruit trees, and greenery on the island. Others followed the Tirols, and cultivation and development of the island gradually spread from this initial beginning.
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Tourism came to the island beginning in about the 1970s.The movie "Too Late the Hero" was filmed in 1970 on locations in Boracay and Caticlan.In the 1980s, the island became popular as a budget destination for backpackers.By the 1990s, Boracay's beaches were being acclaimed as the best in the world.In 2012, the Philippine Department of Tourism reported that Boracay had been named the world's second best beach after Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Boracay Beach, Philippines is home to a variety of boracay resorts and Boracay hotels off the north-western tip of Panay Island in the Visayan Region and boracay island is about 300kms south of the Philippines Capitol of Manila. Boracay Beach Philippines has become the number one tourist destination of the Philippines. Travelers from all over the globe come to see the world's most beautiful beach-"White Sands Beach".
Boracay is shaped like a dumb-bell, it is 7 km. long and the narrowest spot is nearly 1 km. wide. Land area is approximately 1, 083 hectares with about 6,000 locals.
Boracay Island has numerous scattered villages interconnected by a maze of locally carved jungle pathways. The Island boasts of having one of the world's finest beaches. See Boracay Island Philippines
