The Ifugao people are the ethnic group inhabiting Ifugao province in the Philippines. They reside in the municipalities of Lagawe, Aguinaldo, Alfonso Lista, Asipulo, Banaue, Hingyon, Hungduan, Kiangan, Lamut, Mayoyao, and Tinoc. The province is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines with an area of only 251,778 hectares, or about 0.8% of the total Philippine land area. As of 1995, the population of the Ifugaos was counted to be 131,635. Although the majority of them are still in Ifugao province, some of them have moved to Baguio, where they work as woodcarvers, and to other parts of the Cordillera Region.
Young Ifugao women in traditional attire
An Ifugao man from Banaue
Banaue Rice Terraces
An Ifugao warrior with some of his trophies, circa 1912
Ifugao, officially the Province of Ifugao, is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Lagawe and it borders Benguet to the west, Mountain Province to the north, Isabela to the east, and Nueva Vizcaya to the south.
Image: Batad Rice Terraces, Ifugao Province, Philippines
Image: Traditional stilt houses in Bangaan of the Ifugao people
Image: Rice Terraces of Bangaan (40879929533)
Image: VIEW OF BANAUE RICE TERRACES