Also known as: Lalawigan sang Siquijor
Siquijor is a province in Negros Island Region (NIR). Population 108K (PSA 2024 census), 0 cities + 6 municipalities, 134 barangays total, land area 337.49 km². Provincial capital: Siquijor.
Siquijor is a province in Negros Island Region (NIR). Its capital is Siquijor.
Siquijor had 107,642 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Siquijor covers 337.49 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Siquijor has 0 component cities and 6 municipalities (6 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 134 barangays.
Siquijor has no component cities. Its 6 municipalities are Enrique Villanueva, Larena, Lazi, Maria, San Juan and Siquijor.
Siquijor was separated from Negros Oriental and established as an independent province by Republic Act No. 6398, approved September 17, 1971, with Larena named temporary capital before the seat moved to the Municipality of Siquijor in 1972. The province was part of Central Visayas (Region VII) until June 2024, when Republic Act No. 12000 re-established the Negros Island Region — comprising Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor — moving it out of Region VII; a civil-society legal challenge to that law's process was still pending as of the most recent confirmed update.
Key industries: Tourism (Cambugahay Falls, Lazi Church, marine sanctuaries), Fishing and coconut, Traditional folk healing (mananambal)
Siquijor is widely associated with traditional folk healing: practitioners called mananambal observe an annual Holy Week ritual, pangalap, gathering herbs considered most potent on Black Saturday, and academic fieldwork between 2014 and 2019 documented 218 plant species used in local healing practices. The province's own government formalized this into an annual Folk Healing Festival in 2010, explicitly aiming to reposition the island's image from 'witch island' toward a genuine alternative-healing and cultural-heritage destination.
Key industries: Tourism (Cambugahay Falls, Lazi Church, marine sanctuaries), Fishing and coconut, Traditional folk healing (mananambal)
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