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Welcome to Tiwi, a first class municipality in the Province of Albay, Philippines. The town has a total population of 44,261 in 8.036 households.

Tiwi began as a barrio of Malinao before it was organized as a politically independent pueblo in the year 1696. Â People from Tiwi were ordinarily engaged in fishing, planting rice, corn, sugarcane, indigo, fruit-bearing trees and vegetables. They were also busy with weaving cotton, abaca clothes and in pottery. Before the town was established, the present Poblacion and the barangays of Baybay, Libjo, Cararayan and Naga were once part of the Pacific Ocean and the hill shared by barangays Bolo and Putsan was still in islet.

The market site of the pueblo before was located in the present location of Baybay Elementary School. Barangay Baybay was the center of trade and commerce before the assault of the Moro. It had an easy accessibility to marine transportation of goods from the islands of what are now known as Catanduanes, San Miguel, Rapu-Rapu and Batan. Tiwi is currently subdivided into 25 barangays.

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