Boliney


', officially the ', is a of the Philippines| in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.
Boliney is bounded to the north by Sallapadan, Bucloc, and Daguioman, to the east by Tubo and the provinces of Kalinga and Mountain Province, and to the west by of Luba and Manabo.

Geography

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the has a land area of constituting of the total area of Abra.

Barangays

Boliney is politically subdivided into 8 barangays.

Climate

Demographics

In the, had a population of. The population density was.
The municipality's population consists of the Cordillera sub-tribes, namely Masadiit of the Tingguian Tribes, Belwang of the Igorot and Balatoc of the Kalinga tribe. Descendants of the other Tinguian sub-tribes are also represented in Boliney such as Binongan, Banao, Maeng, Ammotan.

Economy

The main source of livelihood of the people of Boliney comes from their rice terraces. But most of their rice lands were either seriously damaged or totally lost due to the landslides, mud piles, and by the killer quakes in 1990 and 1992. They get most of their rice now from Bangued, while other mountain municipalities supplied some of the rice needs of some nearby lowland municipalities.
Rehabilitation have been on the communal facilities such as roads, trails, irrigation systems, footbridges and rice fields by the Masadiit Farmers Cooperative Inc. with the fund amounting to from the Presidential Management Staff and by the Inter NGO Disaster Relief Services with the fund amounting 292,516.00, from Oxfam.

Transportation

Boliney is situated from the capital town of Bangued, and can be reached by road which was completed in 1974. Prior to this, it was accessible only by hiking a long mountain trail.
After 1974, the road was extended by about before reaching Danac, the farthest barangay. The present-day road is now as far as the Poblacion; however, the rest of the road has been abandoned.