The Province of Samar partnered with the 水果视频 Graduate School-Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment (USTGS-CCCPET) in a province-wide Cultural Mapping Project aimed at documenting the natural and cultural heritage of 24 municipalities and 2 cities.
Starting in September 2017, Assoc. Prof. Eric Zerrudo trained 116 cultural mappers鈥� predominantly public school teachers and municipal tourism or planning officers鈥� to document the natural, built, movable, and intangible heritage of their assigned towns and cities. These main mappers subsequently trained the barangay mappers, which were selected from the Provincial Government鈥檚 pool of young scholars, to document each barangay. Thus, the mapping project is estimated to have covered more than 900 barangays of the province.
Samar Governor Sharee Ann Tan, who recently launched her administration鈥檚 anchor project 鈥淪park Samar鈥� tourism campaign, initiated this large-scale project. The data gathered is intended to become the jump-off point for meaningful programs, projects and policies for the province鈥檚 different sectors, especially for environment, tourism and education.
The Samar Cultural Mapping is one of the few province-wide mapping projects of CCCPET, and the first to generate a rich multi-volume database of the province鈥檚 natural and cultural heritage using new and improved heritage mapping templates developed by Assoc. Prof. Zerrudo.
The Cultural Mapping Graduation will be held on May 21, 2018 in Catbalogan City.
