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Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines

The Cordillera Administrative Region consists of six provinces, Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, Apayao, and Mountain Province.

Flag images here drawn after Symbols of the State, published by the Philippines Bureau of Local Government.

Abra
Benguet
- Baguio
Ifugao
Kalinga-Apayao
Mountain

Abra

by Jaume Ollé, 12 January 2001

The Philippine Province of Abra is a basin drained by the Tineg (now also called Abra) River and almost completely rimmed by mountains. Most of the province is forested, yielding a number of woods including acacia and mahogany, and some is farmed, yielding rice, maize, bananas, coffee, and a few other crops, but eighteen percent is grassland, used mostly for rearing cattle and horses. Abra has a colorful history--lots of it blood-red. Its population is 208,000 by the 2000 census; the capital is the town of Bangued.
John Ayer, 4 April 2001

Benguet

by Jaume Ollé, 12 January 2001

The flag of Benguet province is well known because it is shown in Smith 1975. I have redrawn the seal which is placed on a white flag (1:2) as the provincial flag of Benguet. The province was created on 18 June 1966 (Act 4695) after the division of the Mountain province into four. Before that was the Commandancy during Spanish rule. After that Benguet was a subprovince of the Mountain province (after 18 August 1908) - Act 1876. The symbols in the seal: the Ambuklao and Binga hydro-electric plant; miner's tools; native basket or Kayabong; the forest of Benguet and its terrace-clad mountains. The central circle is a gong or Gansa, and symbolizes the highland culture of the natives. The provincial flower is the everlasting.
Source: the heraldic division of the Philippine presidency. All flags must be approved by the heraldic division before adoption. The book is written by Professor Galo Ocampo, chief of the department, (301 pages, full color) and the seals and flags (around 150 administrative divisions flags) are shown in great detail. The image in W. Smith's book may be a mistake or a variant flag make by the local manufacturers, because all the flags show in the book in ratio 1:2 and in Smith the ratio is 3:5
Jaume Ollé, 24 August 1997

I've lived in Benguet for over a year & have never seen the flag. It must be inside the government buildings.
Gene 'Duke' Duque, 25 September 1999

Ifugao and Bengu