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Boliney, officially the Municipality of Boliney (ilo|Ili ti Boliney; tl|Bayan ng Boliney), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 4,551 people.
Boliney is bounded to the north by Sallapadan, Bucloc, and Daguioman, to the east by Tubo and the provinces of Kalinga and Mountain Province, and to the west by of Luba and Manabo.
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of constituting of the 4165.25adj=mid2adj=mid total area of Abra.
Boliney is politically subdivided into 8 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
In the 2020 census, Boliney had a population of 4,551. The population density was NaN4,551/216.92.
The municipality's population consists of the Cordillera sub-tribes, namely Masadiit of the Tingguian Tribes, Belwang of the Igorot and Balatoc of the Kalinga tribe. Descendants of the other Tinguian sub-tribes are also represented in Boliney such as Binongan, Banao, Maeng, Ammotan (now called Muyadan of Manabo).
The main source of livelihood of the people of Boliney comes from their rice terraces. But most of their rice lands were either seriously damaged or totally lost due to the landslides, mud piles, and by the killer quakes in 1990 and 1992. They get most of their rice now from Bangued, while other mountain municipalities supplied some of the rice needs of some nearby lowland municipalities.
Rehabilitation have been on the communal facilities such as roads, trails, irrigation systems, footbridges and rice fields by the Masadiit Farmers Cooperative Inc. (MFCI) with the fund amounting to from the Presidential Management Staff and by the Inter NGO Disaster Relief Services (INDRS) with the fund amounting 292,516.00, from Oxfam.
See main article: Sangguniang Bayan. Boliney, belonging to the lone congressional district of the province of Abra, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the councilors are elected directly by the people through an election which is being held every three years.
| Position | Name |
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| Congressman | Menchie B. Bernos(NP) |
| Mayor | Ronald Balao-as(Asenso) |
| Vice-Mayor | Julius Balao-as(Asenso) |
| Councilors(# new elected) | Edmund L. Stimson(Asenso) |
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| Benipaz S. Balao-as(Asenso) | |
| Balnawi S. Balao-as(Asenso) | |
| Dangwa Bersamin(Asenso) | |
| Danilo Stimson(Asenso) | |
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Boliney is situated from the capital town of Bangued, and can be reached by road which was completed in 1974. Prior to this, it was accessible only by hiking a 24km (15miles) long mountain trail.
After 1974, the road was extended by about before reaching Danac, the farthest barangay. The present-day road is now as far as the Poblacion; however, the rest of the road has been abandoned.