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NIYOGYUGAN FESTIVAL: QUEZON PROVINCE CELEBRATES WITH ART AND COCONUTS

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Quezon National Park hosts one of the few remaining natural ecosystems in Quezon.

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Mount Banahaw is an active complex volcano on Luzon in the Philippines. It is the highest mountain in both provinces and Calabarzon region

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Determining how the alert will be communicated to the public. Cities can use a combination of sirens, SMS alerts to mobile phones, volunteer groups, radio and other media alerts to get the message out quickly. It is critical that the alert reach vulnerable groups, such as elderly and isolated people, or people living in informal settlements.  

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NDRRMC Alert: A Text Message You Shouldn't Ignore

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NDRRMC Alert: A Text Message You Shouldn't Ignore

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The NDRRMC pushes you to pay special attention to its warnings so that you may instantly prepare for any catastrophe for civil defense, such as evacuating your family and putting your automobile in a more secure area.

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Online courses, teaching aids, educational software, social networking tools, and other emerging technologies are disrupting the traditional classroom environment.

Students are not given the opportunity to have an equal access to quality education because of social division.

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What makes an effective Flood Early Warning System?

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What makes an effective Flood Early Warning System?

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An effective flood early warning system is one that meets the needs of the people at risk of floods. It needs to be people-centred and inclusive.

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Lacerna, S. A. (2022, October 1). Tide-induced flooding puts Quezon barangay at edge of climate crisis. Philstar. https://www.philstar.com/headlines/climate-and-environment/2022/10/01/2213412/tide-induced-flooding-puts-quezon-barangay-edge-climate-crisis

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Increase the budget and resources for education; The Philippine Government is spending only 17% of its budget on education, while our more progressive neighbors are spending 20% or more

Widen the pie and ensure accountability; There should be an increase in local accountability and the local school boards should be empowered and strengthened.

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However, the application of technologies in  risk reduction is still limited, in particular in assessing critical risk factors—hazards and vulnerability.  While the demand is growing for disaster preparedness solutions, numerous barriers remain, including a lack of technical capacity and perhaps most importantly a lack of awareness of existing technologies.

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Technological innovations are having a significant impact on educational systems at all levels. Understanding the effects that technological innovations have on students, teachers, and schools is critical to developing strategies and techniques to manage and use technology in education.

Through digital technology and applications, students, especially during the global pandemic, having the online learning set-up gave them the chance to continue learning despite the uncertainty.

Technology enhances easier access to information, increases learning interest, improved knowledge retention, and robust information storage, and improves information presentation for both students and teachers.

For students, teachers can alter the learning process. They can use technology to expand their teaching strategies and personalize learning, which boosts their productivity and effectiveness as teachers.

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Here are some educational technologies that is continuously being used to help delivery quality education:

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Part 1- THE COCONUT FARM: PAG HARVEST NG NIYOG | BUHAY PROBINSYA- QUEZON PROVINCE | KA BAHAW

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Tide-induced flooding puts Quezon barangay at edge of climate crisis

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An article written by Siegfred Aldous Lacerna stated that Joan Arvitria endured the worsening high tide-induced flooding in the only public school in Luctob, a small barangay in Macalelon, Quezon to send her two children to school.

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QUEZON PROVINCE, Philippines - Because she needs to send her two children to school, Joan Avitria is willing to endure the worsening high tide-induced flooding in the only public school in Luctob, a small barangay in Macalelon, Quezon.

A few blocks away from Avitria, Glenda Dedoro, who has lived in the barangay since 2013, is also determined to send her four grandchildren to school even when the campus is covered by water.

Both women have accepted that they will have to fetch the students from school or wait for them outside the classroom to make sure they can come home safely when floods hit again.

Luctob residents have worse problems than soggy school grounds as the high water reaches homes too.

Avitria's home is on stilts but can no longer keep the water out as the flooding has steadily worsened of late.

"This scenario is very usual in our barangay but this is the only time that flooding has been this bad," Avitria said in Filipino. In her 36 years of living in the village, she has seen flooding reach homes that floods used to leave untouched.

"Before, even if there is a high tide, some homes here were still spared."

It has become part of the family's routine to make sure important items are kept elevated to keep them safe from flood waters that sometimes reach knee level.

She said the village gets flooded around once a month, with the waters taking three to four days to subside.

"I cannot finish cooking or doing the laundry because of the water," Dedoro said, adding that her children don't mind the flooding as much because it turns the village into "a big swimming pool."

According to Climate Links, the Philippines is one of the countries deeply affected by "sea-level rise, extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and extreme rainfall" because of its vast coastlines and a large population that is exposed to natural hazards.

Geographically vulnerable

Macalelon, the town where Avitria and Dedoro's barangay is located near the river and sea and on the path of typhoons from the Pacific Ocean.

Quezon province itself was where Super Typhoon Karding first made landfall earlier in September before barreling across Luzon and destroying crops and structures in its path.

The province wasn't spared from the wrath of typhoons Rolly and Ulysses in 2020, either as they forced the local government to evacuate the residents in barangays like Luctob.

Among the worst to hit the province was Typhoon Glenda in 2014, which left 26 people dead, including two from Luctob.

According to a flood mapping survey of the Macalelon River done by the University of the Philippines - Diliman (UP) and Mapua Institute of Technology in 2017, close to 50% of the town's area could experience flood levels of less than 0.20 meters within five years.

In the same time period, 7.91% of the town's area could experience 0.21 to 0.50 meters of flooding, while 14.9% of the area might be seeing floods with depths ranging from 0.51 to more than 5 meters.

Three schools in the Macalelon floodplain are also projected to experience low-level flooding while five are expected to see medium-level flooding.

The lone public school in Luctob was not identified in the mapping survey as flood prone, but residents know that flooding is a reality whether from rain or because of rising tides.

Common experience

According to Climate Central's coastal risk screening tool, much of the town's area near the sea and within the vicinity of the river are in an area that could be a flood zone by 2050.

But future flooding is not a new story, and not one that Macalelon alone faces.

Laoag City in Ilocos Norte, Baler in Aurora, Boracay in Aklan, Iloilo City in Iloilo and Roxas City in Capiz are also on the list of places that will see worse flooding in the next three decades.

In an interview, Mahar Lagmay, a Filipino geologist and executive director of UP NOAH, said rising sea levels could greatly affect the livelihoods of people farther away from coastal areas.

"If the sea levels continue to increase, storm surges could reach more land areas," Lagmay said, noting that would be bad news for agricultural areas.

"If the lands made for rice fields and vegetation become salty, the freshwater land could not cope with the salty water."

Associate Professor Mayzonee Ligaray from the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology of UP Diliman agreed that effects of rising sea levels will be felt even in inland areas.

"If the sea level rises continuously, the flood waters would slowly run down as it reaches places far from the coast," Ligaray noted, adding land used for agriculture can be prone to seawater infiltration that could lead to contaminated groundwater.

According to Climate Central, more than 150 million people across the world could be affected by rising sea levels.

For archipelagos like the Philippines, that could mean widespread migration from coastal areas, Ligaray said.

"The migration will definitely affect the non-coastal communities because basic necessities and facilities might not be enough for people," she said, noting that residents of coastal communities would also lose their livelihoods when they move.

That means the government should consider employment and livelihood when relocating communities from flood-prone areas.

Apart from economic impact, migration will also affect communities and their cultures. "Everyone should care about the rising sea levels," she said.

Mitigation and adaptation

Avitria and Dedoro said they haven't heard from their local government unit about plans to address the flooding but are hopeful that these exist.

Deodoro said they asked candidates in the May elections for help in building elevated pathways but the water has been rising even before these are being built.

"We need a higher foundation for our homes because our personal budget wouldn't suffice," Dedoro said. "We're just poor."

Meanwhile, Avitria also appealed to the local government, saying that they must raise the floor of the barangay's lone school for the children's safety and to make sure classes are not disrupted by flooding.

In the meantime, Lagmay said, there are two ways to address the rising sea levels: climate change mitigation and adaptation.

"[Mitigation] means you have reduced global output of carbon and greenhouse gas emissions so that ice in the polar caps would not melt and (that would) decrease sea level rise," Lagmay said, explaining further that adaptation means projecting the impacts of climate change and addressing local risks in a community.

According to Ligaray, LGUs must identify vulnerable areas and make people aware of how to respond to them. Local governments must also have plans in place to relocate communities if necessary.

On a larger scale, the national government must look into local adaptation plans of different places to come up with policies that are tailored to the risks that communities face and the potential solutions to address these.

Ultimately, Ligaray said, governments on the local and national levels must recognize how big corporations contribute to the worsening climate situation and acknowledge that they cannot conduct business as usual.

"Our individual carbon footprints are minute compared to big industries and corporations," she said, adding she hopes that the country will craft policies that will rein in big businesses and help make sure the village of Luctob will not sink deeper into the sea.

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Tide-induced flooding puts Quezon barangay at edge of climate crisis

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QUEZON PROVINCE, Philippines - Because she needs to send her two children to school, Joan Avitria is willing to endure the worsening high tide-induced flooding in the only public school in Luctob, a small barangay in Macalelon, Quezon.

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Develop flood early warning systems and safety protocols

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Develop flood early warning systems and safety protocols

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Create and implement a strategy to safeguard people and property in the event of flooding. To do this, collaborate with regional, national, and/or local governments, meteorological and disaster response agencies, and other departments with pertinent resources and duties (such as education and public health).

To be Able to implement this; Social media is indeed a connecting source and finds its strength in aiding the response to disasters with quickly spreading information that is, in turn, easily accessed. Popular media sites such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter updated by disaster area residents offer real-time updates about the current on-ground situation.

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Former President Manuel L. Quezon

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Quezon province placed under state of calamity

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After Severe Tropical Storm "Paeng" (international name: Nalgae) distraught the country this weekend, the provincial administration of Quezon proclaimed a state of calamity on Monday.

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LUCENA CITY - The provincial government of Quezon declared a state of calamity on Monday due to widespread destruction caused by Severe Tropical Storm "Paeng" (international name: Nalgae) which hit the country last weekend.

In a special online session held on Monday afternoon (Oct. 31), Vice Governor Anacleto Alcala III and the provincial council, acting on the letter by Governor Angelina Tan, declared a state of calamity in the province, the Quezon public information office announced on its Facebook.

The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office in a report on Monday at 6 p.m., said Paeng displaced 33,786 families composed of 122,107 individuals from 753 barangays (villages).

At least 802 houses were destroyed and 10,932 houses were damaged.

The Quezon agriculture office has yet to provide a report on the extent of damage to the agriculture and fishery sectors.

Lucena City, the capital of the province, also declared a state of calamity.

Last month, the provincial government also placed the island towns of Polillo, Burdeos, Panukulan, Patnanungan,Jomalig and the municipality of General Nakar under a state of calamity after Super Typhoon "Karding" (international name: Noru) devastated the said areas.

The declaration of a state of calamity is crucial for local government units as this will enable them to use their calamity funds.

The move will also be an effective mechanism to control the prices of goods and commodities in the areas.

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LUCENA CITY - The provincial government of Quezon declared a state of calamity on Monday due to widespread destruction caused by Severe Tropical Storm "Paeng" (international name: Nalgae) which hit the country last weekend. In a special online session held on Monday afternoon (Oct.

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Trolley school helps children in Quezon Province keep studies on track

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Trolley school helps children in Quezon Province keep studies on track

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Student volunteers ride on their makeshift trolley which serves as a mobile library for children in Tagkawayan, Quezon Province on February 15, 2022. Locals built a trolley school to aid kids in staying on track with their academics. Four young instructors are moving a colorfully decorated wooden trolley down a rarely used train route in the province of Quezon, two on the front and two at the back.

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TAGKAWAYAN, Quezon - A brightly decorated wooden trolley rumbles down a little-used rail track in Quezon Province carrying four young teachers, two on the front and two in the back pushing it along with their feet.

Kitted out with a whiteboard, colorful charts, and a stack of books, the tiny, mobile school slides along from village to village three times a week, bringing education to impoverished children near the municipality of Tagkawayan as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps schools shut in much of the Southeast Asian archipelago.

"It's important that we do this, especially now that there is a pandemic and the children cannot do face-to-face learning," Shaira Berdin, one of nine volunteers who operate the trolley, said in an interview as kids crouched in the grass by the railway track, thumbing through English books.

Tagkawayan is a town of about 54,000 people in Quezon Province located nearly 176 km (110 miles) southeast of Manila.

Remote learners in the Philippines have been challenged by a lack of computers, phones and internet, along with uneven education quality. Some children have had to climb onto roofs to get data signals.

Pushing the trolley like a scooter, the volunteers teach math and reading to over 60 children as they go. They started their initiative in November and have collected learning materials from donations to use for their classes.

While stopped, the teachers lift the trolley off the tracks, allowing the use of the whiteboard for spelling lessons, and then move on to counting using flashcards. This also keeps the tracks free for other users.

"Most of these volunteers come from poor backgrounds. They've also experienced hardships in life, which is why they want to help children in need," said 26-year-old teacher Samboy de Leon Niala.

The Philippines gradually started a phased reopening of schools in November after a 20-month closure disrupted the education of nearly 27 million children.

The country has recorded more than 3.6 million COVID-19 cases and nearly 55,000 deaths overall. It reopened to tourists in February after the daily case count fell from a peak in September of more than 33,000 to about 1,500. -Reuters

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Kitted out with a whiteboard, colorful charts, and a stack of books, the tiny, mobile school slides along from village to village three times a week, bringing education to impoverished children near the municipality of Tagkawayan as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps schools shut in much of the Southeast Asian archipelago.

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‘Sabungan’ turned into school for Quezon kids”

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‘Sabungan’ turned into school for Quezon kids”

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After the closure of a public school in Mulanay town in Quezon province found a new learning space in a cockpit arena, or a sabungan, that has long been idle. Conducting Classes in a cockpit area has its disadvantages however the closure of the Elementary school in Brgy. San Isidro in Lucena City, Quezon, didn't allow it to be a hindrance to the learning of the students. The old school building in the village was built in 1978 and was ordered closed by authorities in November 2020 due to safety concerns after it was heavily damaged by successive typhoons, earthquakes, and landslides.

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LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines - Students in Mulanay town in Quezon province found a new learning space in a cockpit arena, or a sabungan, that has long been idle.

The now temporary public school is serving 232 students in the town at the province's Bondoc Peninsula district.

Agnes Par, one of 10 teachers at the elementary school in Barangay San Isidro, said holding classes inside a cockpit arena has its own inherent disadvantages.

"But learning can still be achieved even under a papaya tree," Par said in a video documentary on the Facebook page of Mulanay Mayor Aristotle Aguirre, which has garnered over 500 positive comments since it was posted on Sept. 2.

The old school building in the village, located some six kilometers from the town center, was built in 1978. But the facility was ordered closed by authorities in November 2020 due to safety concerns after it was heavily damaged by successive typhoons, earthquakes and landslides.

However, the closure did not immediately affect the schoolchildren who were then attending classes online in a virtual learning mode due to the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

Temporary place

When the Department of Education (DepEd) declared that the current school year will be conducted in person, Par said they sought the help of village officials to find solutions to their school problem.

"Our original intention is to hold classes at the barangay hall. But our barangay captain offered the [empty] Decena Sports Arena," Par said.

"I pity the children. I did not hesitate and allow the DepEd to use the arena as a temporary place for students when they return in face-to-face schooling," San Isidro village chief Arnulfo Decena, whose family owned the facility, said by phone on Friday.

Par said they moved into the arena last March.

With the in-person classes already in place this school year, the arena now serves students in Grades 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6. Two classes are being held at the two offices inside the arena while the rest of the students have their assigned areas around the main cockpit. Classes for those in Kindergarten and Grade 3 are being held at the nearby barangay hall.

The circular cockfighting area in the middle of the arena serves as the common office for all teachers.

The main entrance serves as a triage area, where teachers and students submit themselves to thermal scanners before entering the facility.

"We also have an isolation room for those who will show [COVID-19] symptoms," Par said.

Closed for 6 years

Decena disclosed the facility has been closed for the past six years due to a case in court filed by another cockpit operator in the locality.

"We only operated for four days after the opening. Then the court ordered us to stop," he recalled.

He said the other cockpit arena also stopped its operation in 2013. The town had no operational cockpit arena since then.

Decena said the arena, which sits on a 1.3-hectare property and costs around P19 million to build, is not only a cockfighting place but also a multipurpose function center.
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'Sabungan' turned into school for Quezon kids

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LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Philippines - Students in Mulanay town in Quezon province found a new learning space in a cockpit arena, or a sabungan, that has long been idle. The now temporary public school is serving 232 students in the town at the province's Bondoc Peninsula district.

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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

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The Goal 11 of the SDGs focuses on making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. It aims to promote sustainability and inclusivity in addition to attaining environmental goals and developing resilient cities. The impacts of climate change have been felt through devastating floods in Quezon Province and other parts of the Philippines. This SDG also focuses on reducing adverse effects of natural disasters, significantly reducing the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decreasing the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations.

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SDG 4 focuses on sustaining a quality education that ensures inclusive and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all. Education is essential for self-respect because it liberates the mind, frees the imagination, and fosters intellectual freedom. It is the secret to wealth and unlocks a world of possibilities, enabling each of us to contribute to a forward-thinking, healthy society. Learning is good for everyone and ought to be available to all pupils.

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Quezon Province, due to several reasons such as its geographic location, poor infrastructure, and ongoing insurgency, resulted in severe issues such as increasing poverty and quality education.  Lack of access to education, especially in impoverished communities is a contributing cause of systemic poverty. Education provides people with fundamental skills and more career options, which might aid in the fight against poverty in the Philippines.

The Philippines' educational problems have gotten worse as a result of COVID-19, which has also presented new difficulties. Due to the rapid events caused by the health crisis, online or TV distance learning options were required. A blended learning program that combines online classes, printouts and lessons broadcast on TV and social media was also introduced in October 2020. Therefore, internet access for both students and teachers is necessary for the new learning pathways. Many students from different municipalities of Quezon lack access to computers and other digital tools at home, funds to buy mobile loads, poor internet signal, as well as guardians' insufficient knowledge about the students' lessons, making blended learning ineffective for millions of people. Thus, many students are impacted by the importance of technology in education.

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Floods are caused by the failure of natural paths and drainage systems to hold excess water during and immediately following excessive rainfall. This condition is among the disastrous natural hazards that can cause tremendous economic loss, damage to infrastructures and natural ecosystems, as well as death.

Quezon province itself was where Super Typhoon Karding first made landfall earlier in September before barreling across Luzon and destroying crops and structures in its path. The province wasn’t spared from the wrath of typhoons Rolly and Ulysses in 2020, either as they forced the local government to evacuate the residents in barangays like Luctob.

Among the worst to hit the province was Typhoon Glenda in 2014, which left 26 people dead, including two from Luctob.

Last November 1, 2022, The provincial government of Quezon declared a state of calamity on Monday due to widespread destruction caused by Severe Tropical Storm “Paeng” (international name: Nalgae) which hit the country last weekend.

The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office in a report on Monday at 6 p.m., said Paeng displaced 33,786 families composed of 122,107 individuals from 753 barangays (villages). At least 802 houses were destroyed and 10,932 houses were damaged.

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Kamay ni Hesus is a popular tourist destination in Quezon. The church is claimed to be a healing church, which means devotees believe that healing prayers

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Quezon is the country's leading producer of coconut products. A large part of the province is rich in coconut plantations and rice farms. Other major crops are corn, banana, and coffee. Fishing is also a large part of the province's economy. The province has one of the longest coasts among the 81 provinces and therefore, fishing is a very important industry. A large coal-fired power plant is operating in Pagbilao town near Lucena City. Tourism is not as developed as in the other provinces in Calabarzon Region but the Quezon province is known for its quaint islands and rugged mountains. Serene beaches and forests attract many nature enthusiasts, along with modern amenities and exciting nightlife.

In terms of Inflation,  in October 2022, the headline inflation rate in the province of Quezon increased even further from 6.6 percent in September 2022 to 8.3 percent. Since January 2019, this inflation rate has been the highest. With the inflation for this month, the province of Quezon's average inflation rate from January to October 2022 was 4.9 percent. The inflation rate in October 2021 was 3.9 percent.

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The population of Quezon grew from 139,206 in 1903 to 1,950,459 in 2020, an increase of 1,811,253 people over the course of 117 years. The latest census figures in 2020 denote a positive growth rate of 1.04%, or an increase of 93,877 people, from the previous population of 1,856,582 in 2015.

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Quezon is the largest province in the CALABARZON region and is primarily agricultural in nature. It is the 8th largest province in the country, with a total land area of 8,706.60 Sq. Km..  It is the largest province in CALABARZON having 54% of the total land area of the region. On the other hand, it has rugged terrain with few plains, valleys and swamps.

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What is now Quezon used to be parts of the current provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Nueva Ecija. The boundary of the current province is formally defined as the Spaniards, under Juan de Salcedo, entered the Philippines. The province, originally named Kalilayan, has its first provincial capital at the present-day town of Unisan, but it is moved inland to Pagbilao after its destruction and pillaging by Moro pirates. In 1749, the capital was moved to Tayabas, which also became its name until its renaming in 1946.

Because of the oppressive rule by the Spaniards, Tayabas also witnessed uprisings against the colonial authorities, most notably the rebellion led by mystic Hermano Pule (real name, Apolinario de la Cruz). At the end of the 19th century, it was one of the eight provinces that led the revolution against the Spanish authorities.

Civil government was established by the Americans in 1901, and the capital moved to Lucena. The Americans quelled remaining rebellions led by Filipinos in Quezon, as the province served as a supply point for rebels in Batangas and Laguna. Marinduque became part of Tayabas between 1902 and 1920. In December 1941, the Japanese arrived in Quezon, and stayed until their surrender in 1945.

The province of Quezon is in the CALABARZON Region of the Philippines, which is part of the island of Luzon. Lucena is its capital city. The former president Manuel L. Quezon, who was born in Baler, a town that was formerly a part of Tayabas, inspired the name of the province Quezon. Quezon is famous for coconut-based cuisines, lambanog, longganisang Lucban, and pansit habhab.

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SOLUTION TO THE ISSUE AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT 