Qualla: Palawan https://qualla.com/palawan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Palawan https://qualla.com/palawan Palawan: Introduction https://qualla.com/palawan/ Jacques Cousteau called Palawan's seascapes among the most beautiful in the world. Conde Nast Traveler voted its beaches the best in Asia. But the superlatives, however earned, risk obscuring what makes this place genuinely unusual: a 450-kilometer-long island province where 52 languages are spoken, where 45 percent of Manila's fish supply originates, and where the forest canopy still covers more than half the land. Palawan is the Philippines' largest province and its least typical -- a narrow blade of limestone and jungle separating the South China Sea from the Sulu Sea, closer to Borneo than to Manila in both geography and spirit.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/u/8/palawan-wp/w9u8-palawan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Palawan: The Last Biodiversity Frontier https://qualla.com/palawan/ Palawan earned its nickname honestly. With 700,000 hectares of forest as of 2010, the province shelters species found nowhere else on Earth: the Palawan peacock-pheasant, the Philippine mouse-deer, the Philippine pangolin, the Palawan bearded pig, and the Palawan birdwing butterf...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/u/8/palawan-wp/w9u8-palawan-the-last-biodiversity-frontier.mp3 0:06 2 full Palawan: Fifty-Two Languages, One Province https://qualla.com/palawan/ The cultural landscape of Palawan is as layered as its geology. Tagalog dominates today, spoken by more than half the population, but the native language of the islands is Cuyonon, which once served as the lingua franca among Palawan's indigenous peoples -- the Agutaynen, Cagayan...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/u/8/palawan-wp/w9u8-palawan-fifty-two-languages-one-province.mp3 0:06 3 full Palawan: Shipwrecks and Crystal Lakes https://qualla.com/palawan/ Tourism arrived in Palawan not as a gentle tide but as a wave. The province received 1.8 million visitors in 2018, a 21-percent increase over the previous year. The attractions read like an inventory of superlatives. Coron Reefs in the north draw divers to World War II Japanese s...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/9/u/8/palawan-wp/w9u8-palawan-shipwrecks-and-crystal-lakes.mp3 0:06 4 full Palawan: Riches and Risks https://qualla.com/palawan/ Palawan's economy runs on agriculture, fishing, and extractive industries. Rice, corn, and coconut are the major crops. Nickel, copper, manganese, and chromite are mined from the earth. Natural gas reserves of approximately 30,000 trillion cubic feet make Palawan the only oil-pro...

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