Bicol

The Bicol Region additionally recognized truly as Bicol and traditionally called Ibalong prior to Spanish colonization, is a area of the Philippines, designated as Region V. Bicol accommodates 6 provinces, four at the Bicol Peninsula mainland the southeastern cease of Luzon Albay, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, and Sorsogon and the offshore island provinces of Catanduanes and Masbate.

The Bicol vicinity was known as Ibalong, variously interpreted to derive form ibalio, to bring to the alternative aspect; ibalon, human beings from the opposite side or individuals who are hospitable and give traffic items to convey home or as a corruption of Gibal ong, a sitio of Magallanes, Sorsogon where the Spaniards first landed in 1567. The Bicol River turned into first mentioned in Spanish files in 1572. The location became also known as Los Camarines after the huts observed via the Spaniards in Camalig, Albay. No prehistoric animal fossils have been found in Bicol and the peopling of the vicinity stays difficult to understand. The Aeta from Camarines Sur to Sorsogon strongly endorse that aborigines lived there long ago, but earliest evidence is of center to overdue Neolithic lifestyles.