page_title: Banate, Iloilo
section_title: Banate during the Spanish Regime
hierarchical_section_title: Banate, Iloilo / History / Banate during the Spanish Regime
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Philippine Islands published by Pedro Murillo Velarde in 1774
context_page_description: Banate, officially the Municipality of Banate, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 32,532 people.
  The town is primarily a fishing and agricultural municipality, with large areas planted with rice, sugarcane, vegetables, beans, coconut and bananas. Banate is well known for Kasag, krill or shimp paste called ginamos, and the fresh fish, which local entrepreneurs take to and sell in the capital of the province, in many of the non-coastal towns, and even in Manila.
caption: Fr. Murillo Velarde's 1734 Map of the Philippines showing Banate as one of the ancient towns on the island of Panay.
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