Homeland of the Ilocano

The ethnic homeland of Ilocano is in the Philippines in a region called the Cagayan Valley which is composed of four provinces.  Those four provinces are Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Arba which is landlocked.  Another part in which the Ilocano people homeland was in parts of Central Luzon. Today the Ilocanos still reside in parts of the Philippines but also in the United States.

A better understanding to where the Ilocanos live it's an area between the Cordillera Mountains and the South China Sea.  They say that a raise in see level by 100 meters would submerge this area.  The are where the Ilocanos live is very mountainous with mountains twenty kilometers to the east and more forty kilometers south.  Also there is Mount Pulog which is 2,900 meters and is sixty kilometers from the South China Sea.

Where the Ilocanos live in Luzon it is classified as to one of the driest regions in the Philippines. Although the Ilocanos have been known to be very successful farmers especially when it comes to rice.  This type of weather in the region have made the Ilocanos hard-working at what they do which includes farming, fishing etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordillera_Central_(Luzon)