Panay
one of the Philippine Islands, belonging to the Visayan group. The island in shape is nearly that of a tri- PANDIT angle. In general it is mountainous, though there are many extensive and very fertile valleys. The island comprises the three provinces of Capiz, Iloilo, and Antique; area, 4,611 square miles; pop. about 750,000. It is celebrated for forest products, there being in the single province of Capiz as many as 87 varieties of excellent building woods. From the forests are also gathered honey, wax, and pitch. Several quarries are worked, producing fine marble and tonalite. Lime of an excellent quality is abundant in the province of Iloilo. Besides these industries, cotton, corn, chocolate, pepper, coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, and rice are cultivated with much success.