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The Iloilo River and Port in the post-WW II
THE outbreak of World War II signaled the end of the feverish commercial activity in the Port of Iloilo. Consequently, it also marked the death of Iloilo as the “Queen City of the South”. The Japanese destroyed a sizable portion of the commercial section of the city and a large chunk of the Iloilo harbor. [...]