page_title: Banton, Romblon
section_title: Infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Banton, Romblon / Infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: English: Passenger motorcycles are the main mode of transportation in Banton. This motorcycles plies the Banton Circumferential Road going to Barangay Banice.
context_page_description: Banton, officially the Municipality of Banton, is a fifth-class municipality in the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 5,536 people.
  Its territory encompasses the entire island of Banton located on the northern portion of the province and lies on the northern portion of the Sibuyan Sea near the southern tip of Marinduque. It is a town of about 5,000 people majority of which speak the Asi language, one of the five primary branches of the Bisayan languages.
  Banton is thought to be already inhabited by Filipinos since the pre-colonial period, based on analysis of discovered human remains, coffins, an ancient burial cloth and other archaeological finds by the National Museum in the 1930s. The present settlement was founded in 1622 by the Spanish and is the oldest settlement in the province. During the American colonial period, the municipality changed its name to Jones in honor of American congressman William Jones, who authored the Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916. Today, Banton is one of Romblon's thriving municipalities, with an economy dependent on copra farming, fishing, raffia palm weaving, and tourism.
caption: Passenger motorcycles are the main mode of transportation in Banton.
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