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Located on the western coast of Bohol is the municipality of Loon. It is said to have been named after a beautiful seaside spring located in the northern part of the Poblacion. However, there is no record to prove this as a fact. It is not definitely known when the town was established but in 1879, it was already a flourishing community with a population of 7,202.(the provincial government)

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thanks maleman. we'll check out the website and get info from there.

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this is the Tubig-Loon Spring


This was the place where the Boholano guerillas launched an ambush towards the Japanese invaders.

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Apas-sumpay kabahin sa history sa Loon, gi contribute ni KP sa Wikipedia:

The year of Loon's founding as a community has not been ascertained due to the dearth of official documents. The earliest year to reckon is 1610 when a nucleus Christian community in the coastal village of Napo allegedly resulted from the ministering activities of the Jesuit friars who came to the Philippines more than 85 years earlier.

Church records, however, show that the first parish priest, also a Jesuit, was installed in 1753. The Recollect priests took over the administration of the local church in the late 1760s, but it was only in around 1855 when the imposing stone church of the Our Lady of Light (Birhen sa Kasilak) was completed.

Since 1753, more than 70 priests had served the parish. Today, Loon has five Catholic parishes, the last one (Parish of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage) having been established on November 19, 2000.

A 200-year gap exists between the emergence (in historical records) of the community in Napo in 1610 and the installation of Tomas Sevilla in 1810 as Loon’s first town executive. Then addressed as ‘cabeza de barangay’, the municipal mayor was called ‘capitan’ and ‘presidente municipal’ in the ensuing years.

Thirty-two mayors had served the municipality, excluding the incumbent, mayor, Dr. Lloyd Peter M. Lopez. At least three town heads served for more than one term, namely, Vivencio Nazareno (1916-22 and 1928-31); Geronimo Lituañas (appointed, 1946-47 and elected, 1948-51); and Wilfredo Caresosa (1980-86 and 1988-98).

Loon always figures prominently in the political history of the province. Towards the end of the 19th century when the Americans first set foot on Bohol and were met by resistant forces of the local guerrillas opposed to another foreign dominion, Loon was the first town burned by the aggressors in an effort to subdue the reluctant natives.

Just before the century ended, Mariano Sumatra, a.k.a. Mariano “Anoy” Datahan, a native of Barangay Canhangdon Occidental, founded the Eskaya community in Bayabas, Guindulman which later spread to Taytay, Duero. Although not a cultural minority group, the Eskaya has its own system of doing things including the use of an alphabet mostly consisting of symbols representing nature and parts of the human body.

In about 1900, when enmity towards the foreigners subsided, an American engineer visited Loon and described it as a fertile plateau planted with coconut, corn and tobacco, and a progressive town of 16,000 people. He wrote about the imposing structures of the town like the church and convent, stone stairway or Inang-angan, and wharf; children going to school; an affluent community with well-kept environs; and a spring flowing from a cave on the northern edge of the town, after which the name Loon (from ‘nag-loon’, or the merging of freshwater and saltwater) was coined.

In 1903, the first official count of inhabitants was conducted nationwide. Loon’s population was described as fairly large at 18,114 residents. At that time, no other Bohol municipality, including Tagbilaran, registered more than 10,000 residents.

On September 27, 1942, amid the raging US-Japan war, the Moalong River that dissects the municipality into the northern and southern parts, became mute witness to the most successful ambush mounted against the Japanese imperial forces by the Boholano guerrillas led by Vicente T. Cubero, a.k.a. Captain Francisco Salazar. Considered the hero of the Battle of Moalong, Salazar claimed to have his family roots in Barangay Pondol. It was Juan ‘Aning’ Relampagos, a former member of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFE), who brought Salazar to Bohol. Relampagos disguised himself as a trader sailing between Mindanao and the Visayan islands. He met Salazar while plying his goods in the southern towns of Leyte. Relampagos later became municipal mayor and member of the provincial board. The war exploits of Cubero are described in the book entitled "Boholano Guerrillas in Action" that was written by Pio B. Ferandos, former Cebu RTC judge and Loon mayor.

In the years following the Second World War, prominent Loonanons became active participants in charting the development of the province and the country as well. Among them are Natalio P. Castillo, Executive Secretary to Pres. Carlos P. Garcia and member of the House of Representatives; Ramon Lapez, another House member; Ricardo Miranda, governor of the then only Davao province; Fermin Mesina, commercial attaché to Japan and Vietnam; Purisimo R. Castillo, commercial attaché to Spain; Rene Lopez Relampagos, Bohol’s youngest governor; current Budget Undersecretary Mario Relampagos; and Romulo L. Neri, former Secretary of Economic Planning and Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) who is currently the president of the Social Security System (SSS).

Historical timeline

September 8, 1597 (unconfirmed) - the image of the Our Lady of Light was reportedly enthroned in a church in Butuan, Agusan del Norte before it was brought to Bohol, away from the marauding Moro bandits. In 1610 (unconfirmed), Fray Pedro Lopez, SJ and company allegedly brought the Kasilak image to Loon where it was warmly received and enthroned.

June 22, 1753 - establishment of Loon as a Spanish mission or "visita"; founding of the Parroquia de la Nuestra Señora de la Luz or Our Lady of Light Parish with Fray Manuel de Elizalde, a Jesuit, as the first parish priest.

1768 - the Jesuits ceded administration of the parish to the Recollects. Years later, the image of the Kasilak was permanently enthroned in the present church of Loon which was completed in around 1855.

1810 - assumption into office of Tomas Sevilla, the first town mayor, then called ‘cabeza de barangay’. He served for 15 years.

1855 - completion of the construction of the Our Lady of Light (Birhen sa Kasilak) Church

About 1899-1900 - the burning of Loon by the Americans to subdue the alleged remaining members of an anti-American movement in Bohol.

March 14, 1900 - Major H.C. Hale and the B and C companies of the 44th Volunteer Infantry sailed for Bohol from Iloilo aboard the transport Elcano. With them was George Percival Scriven, who was particularly interested in the establishment of a Loon-Argao cable communications linkage, which was later accomplished.

April 2, 1900 - George Percival Scriven, in his diary, wrote that Loon was a fertile plateau planted with coconut, corn and tobacco, and a progressive town of 16,000 people. He took note of the imposing structures of the town like the church and convent, stone stairway or Inang-angan, and wharf; children going to school; an affluent community with well-kept environs; and a spring flowing from a cave on the northern edge of the town, after which the name Loon was coined.

1903 - the first official count of inhabitants was conducted nationwide. Loon’s population was described as fairly large at 18,114 residents. At that time, no other Bohol municipality, including Tagbilaran, registered more than 10,000 residents.

1914 - completion of the construction of the Gabaldon Building, the main structure of Catagbacan Elementary School, now Loon North Central Elementary School.

1915 - completion of the Gabaldon Building of the Loon (now Loon South) Central Elementary School.

1929 - completion of the American-style public plaza that features a monument dedicated to the national hero, the only Rizal monument topped by a replica of the Statue of Liberty; and a fountain that depicts the legend of Tubig-Loon.

June 1942 - arrival of Captain Francisco Salazar in Bohol (Catagbacan) from Mindanao via Leyte.

September 27, 1942 - Battle of Moalong, now jointly commemorated annually, since 2001, with the Municipal Day of Prayer for World Peace.

1946 - opening of Loon Institute (Rafael Palma College Branch), the town's first secondary school.

1948 - founding of Sacred Heart Academy, first sectarian high school, by Msgr. Felix Zafra.

1952 - establishment of the Loon Municipal Library during the incumbency of Mayor Juan ‘Aning’ M. Relampagos.

January 28, 1958 - Fr. Gorgonio C. Pueblos started serving the Mary Help of Christians (Auxilium Christianorum) Parish as its first parish priest.

1968 - Typhoon Reming destroyed most houses and damaged agricultural crops and livestock. It also destroyed the old municipal building, then used as Loon Central Annex in Moto Norte.

December 13, 1975 - energization of Loon by the Bohol Electric Cooperative (Boheco I); prior to this electric power was already available from the local power plant established by the municipal government in about 1968.

March 28-29, 1977 - The Loon Youth Team grabbed the grand championship of the first-ever Provincial Kabataang Barangay Sportsfest basketball finals that was participated in by all 47 municipalities previously competing in inter-town elimination rounds.

1979 - Loon hosted the annual National Science and Technology Fair which was participated in by high school students who won in the science fair (investigative projects) and quiz competitions in their respective regions.

February 20, 1988 - Canonical erection of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila Parish. Its first parish priest, Fr. Bernardito T. Getigan officially reported on May 12, 1988.

June 8, 1988 - the Loon Waterworks System received the Gawad Galing Pook for 1997-98.

December 15, 1990 - establishment of the Holy Cross Parish with Fr. Gaudioso C. Zamora as first parish priest.

September 2000 - the SidlaKasilak or Festival of Lights was mounted for the first time, with sectoral representatives each bearing a decorated lantern that they floated on the pond below the fountain at the Loon Public Plaza. Sixty-seven teachers, each representing a barangay, also brought beautifully adorned and lighted baskets.

November 19, 2000 - establishment of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage Parish in Barangay Cuasi. Fr. Blair Lope M. Sabaricos, a Loonanon, was the first chaplain.

June 22, 2002 - Opening of the Loon South High School in Barangay Cuasi, the seventh secondary school in the town.

2002 - The Province of Bohol was conferred a Gawad Galing Pook for its coastal resource management program that includes the institutionalization of the Coastal Law Enforcement Council (CLEC). At that time, the CLEC of the First District was chaired by Mayor Cesar Tomas "Yul" M. Lopez, MD. Loon's efforts in enhancing heritage, culture and the arts also contributed much to another Galing Pook award received by the Province in recognition of its cultural renaissance program as a means to strengthen local governance.

2003 - Mayor Yul Lopez was conferred the Local Government Leadership Award as Outstanding Municipal Mayor of the Philippines, so far the first and only town mayor awardee from Bohol. The award was conferred on him by the Department of the Interior and Local Government, University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University and other reputable institutions on the basis of his exemplary achievements and leadership in local governance.

August 30 - September 8, 2005 - PaghiuSadya 2005, first global homecoming of Loonanons.

December 18, 2005 - inauguration of the 11.8-million-peso modular steel bridge on Tajang Pass which was constructed under the President's Bridge Program of the Department of the Interior and Local Government and the Austrian government.

January 2007 - diarrhea outbreak in Loon, caused by Shigella flexneri, a water-borne bacterium. The epidemic claimed the lives of at least 11, mostly children.

June 2007 - dengue outbreak that left at least three children dead.

November 22, 2007 - the Commission on Audit conferred on the Local Government Unit the following four recognitions: first Municipality in the entire country to implement the electronic New Government Accounting System (e-NGAS), LGU with the shortest e-NGAS roll-out period; LGU with the most updated budget reports; and LGU with the most updated financial statements.

November 27, 2007 - a storm surge heavily damaged the causeway on Tajang Pass and Tulay, the fish port in Napo.

December 15-16, 2007 - The first Loon Creative Industry Festival was launched. According to Mr. Blair Panong, DTI - Bohol representative, Loon is the first LGU in the entire country to have sponsored an activity of such kind.

February 25-29, 2008 - In celebration of National Arts Month, the Local Government Unit mounted an exhibit on the works of Loonanon artists, particularly in the fields of painting, sculpture, literary arts, mat-weaving, film and television, photography, music, theater, and fashion.



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You're welcome, Lorenzo.
Welcome to Loon soon.

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Koddi, may I ask that you show me around the old Spanish ruins, Spanish cemetery in Loon?

Muchos Gracias!

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 I must say that the exterior facade of Loon Church resembles the Imperial Baroque churches seen in Nueva Espana (New Spain/ Mexico) during the turn of the 19th century.


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During the height of the Spanish Empire, prior to the outbreak of the Peninsular War (which was facilitated by the French invasion of Spain during the early 19th century), the Philippines was under the control of the Imperial Audencia --which was based in Nueva Espana (New Spain/ Mexico) from the late 16th century till the Independence of Mexico from Spanish Yolk in the early 19th century--and thus there is cultural similarities between the Spanish architecture in the Philippines and those in Mexico.

En actualidad, Senor Admiral Legazpi was a Spanish peninuslare who was employed in Mexico City prior to being chosen to lead a naval contingent to subdue the Philippines in 1565. And it is quite interesting that many political officials that served in Viroyalty of Nueva Espana were sent to Las Islas Filipinas after years of solid service. It was quite common for Spanish gentries, old officers and politicians to make their fortune in the Philippines. The proximity of the Philippines to the spice trade in the Malaccas and the gold and silver in China was all the more reason for this strategic initiative for officials who were--let's say--more interested in the financial aspect of the Empire.

It was quite common for Spaniards to develop the encomienda system (hacienda--for the Filipino tongue) in the rich lower valleys in the Visayas--while at the same time be in constant trade with the Chinese merchants and other European port traders (as Spain's law that forbade inter-national trade was rarely ever followed--outside of Spain proper). Once they made their millions, the officers and lower gentries would return to the Spain with their new found wealth and live quite comfortable in their home regions: Andalucia, Leon, Galicia, Madrid etc.

And with them, the officials , architects, engineers, as well as priests/monks brought with them the current style. Loon's Church is an example of Imperial Baroque, a very popular style in which Spain produceds its churches throghout the new-world. It was the epitome of European architectural brilliance.

Considering at the time, Spain was the Shield Bearer of the Roman Catholicism--and had personal links with the Papacy in Rome ('I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse'-- Charles V)

Baroque was The European style. It was popularized in Spain (which then controlled or had major influence in most of Western and Northern Europe), and the style was popularized by the Catholic Church--which had a global influence. Spain's production of these Baroque churches throughout its Empire was her living legacy. It was the Spanish way of making the local population "Spanish". One notices that Spain, unlike other european empires that merely conquored for economic growth --Spain conquored to transform and did transform the local population.

The church Loon resembles the Churches in Mexico (Nueva Espana) considering the 3 centuries of linkage; the Philippines was considered part of the Administration of the Imperial Audencia--which was based in Nueva Espana. An offshore territory, so to say.

When was the church in Loon built? It's style is distinctly Imperial Baroque.


It resembles the  Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad , which was started in 1690, but was completed by the end of the 18th and turn of the 19th century. It is in this style that many churches that were built in the 19th followed. In fact, most of the Churches in the Philippines that were built from the 16th to the 19th centuries are identical to churches seen in Nueva Espana (Mexico). Most probably because the friars and the architects that designed the churches in the Philippines were from Nueva Espana, which at the time was the largest Viceroyalty in the Empire.

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The church was completed in 1855. Compared to other churches in Bohol, the one in Loon is quite recent.

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Quite interesting. It's as recent as the Valencia Parish Church, which was started by Fray Mariano Cornago and completed in the latter half of the 19th century in 1882.



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Thank You, Koddi. I'm assuming the Spaniards buried here were probably merchants and/or military troops.

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Origin of the town's name   

On the westernmost corridor of Bohol lies Loon, the biggest municipality of Bohol, with 67 barangays evenly spread in beautiful plateaus, lofty mountains and two islands.  Named after a crystal-clear spring that gushes from the bosom of the earth, Loon is blessed with a wealth of natural resources and a rich cultural heritage. The spring is found north of the coastal village of Napo, Loon’s nucleus community.  The water from this spring blends together with the blue water of the town’s rich marine paradise, thus the name “Tubig-Loon” or “Tubig nga nag-loon”.  In the Bisayan dialect, ‘lo-on’ means to merge, coexist or live together.  The brackish mixture flows beyond the town's shores, a fitting depiction of the Loonanon’s proclivity to explore limitless boundaries and venture into business, education and other professions.  No wonder, Loon is Bohol’s number one town of professionals and  businessmen. 


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CRADLE OF LOONANON FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY LEADERS

Where did most of our ancestors come from? Here’s a list based on historical records. Note that most if not all sound Spanish, proof that the decree issued by Gov. Narciso Claveria requiring all Filipinos to use Spanish surnames was strictly followed in all of Loon.

Last Name / Barangay

Corbita - Cogon Sur
Coritico - Pig-ot
Cubio - Pondol
Dospueblos - Napo
Ferandos   - Napo
Floren - Cuasi
Flores - Pig-ot
Formoso - Basdio
Florenosos - Pig-ot
Fuerzas - Cogon Sur
Gablines - Cuasi
Ganados - Mocpoc
Garay - Canmanoc
Garnica - Pig-ot
Gaudicos   - Pig-ot
Guadalquiver - Agsoso, Tubodio
Gubantes   - Pig-ot
Guitones - Tontonan
Josol - Pananquilon
Juaton - Pananquilon
Labastilla - Bagacay Kawayan
Labesores - Basdacu
Lafuente - Basac, Catagbacan
Lanoy - Pananquilon
Lanzaderas - Sondol
Lapez - Cabilao Island
Lapiceros - Lintuan
Marcojos - Basdacu
Marimon - Catagbacan
Martos -    Lintuan
Mascariñas - Badbad
Mataflorida - Lintuan
Lacierda - Badbad
Leones -    Cantam-is Baslay
Leornas - Mocpoc
Lera - Lintuan
Lesula - Catagbacan
Libranza - Cantam-is Baslay
Lidon - Tontonan
Literatus - Basdio
Longjas - Cabug
Lopez - Moto, Cabilao Island
Lugo - Cogon Sur
Luminarias - Bagacay
Lupiba - Pondol
Magallen - Bahi
Magoncia - Pondol
Maluenda - Pananquilon
Mante - Napo
Matutes - Basdacu
Medrina - Campatud
Meguillo - Tangnan
Mejorada - Bagacay
Morastil - Basac
Moria - Tontonan
Mulato - Bahi
Murcia - Cabilao Island
Nazareno - Napo
Orcullo - Badbad
Palmitos - Tangnan
Palma - Biasong
Palomares - Basdacu, Taytay
Pamplona - Cogon Norte, Tontonan
Pastoril - Tontonan
Pedrablanca - Bahi
Pedros - Canmanoc
Pelpinosas - Bagacay Saong
Peñaranda - Basdio, Pananquilon
Perez - Basac
Perges - Looc
Pestillos - Cuasi
Piodos - Bahi
Piscos - Cabug
Planos - Bahi
Plazos - Calayugan
Policianos - Tontonan
Poligrates - Pig-ot
Relampagos - Canmanoc      
Relator -    Mocpoc      
Remoreras - Bugho
Ponte - Lintuan
Preciados - Basdacu
Ramada - Agsoso
Rebucas - Cantam-is Bago
Recamadas - Canmanoc
Refugio - Basdio
Regañon - Pig-ot
Roferos - Catagbacan, Pananquilon
Rojas - Basdio
Roslinda - Mocpoc
Salomon - Napo
Sablas - Pananquilon
Salinas -    Tontonan
Salamanca - Napo
Sanguenza - Cuasi
Santillana - Basdacu
Sarabia - Cuasi
Sarabosquez - Pondol
Sarpamones - Cantomucad
Sartorio - Tontonan
Saturinas   - Catagbacan
Sevilla - Napo
Sieras - Taytay
Simbulas - Agsoso
Sobrado - Pig-ot   
Soler - Basdacu
Sombrio - Cantomucad, Bagacay Kawayan
Sumatra - Canhangdon, Bahi
Supremo- Basdacu, Bahi
Taylaran - Cantaongon
Veloso - Catagbacan

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Origin of the Names of Loon's Barangays
 
(1) Agsoso, after “soso’”, a freshwater shellfish species abundant in a spring that still provides water to the municipal water system.

(2) Badbad Occidental and (3) Badbad Oriental, after a local shrub or tree called “badba-an” which abounds in the area even at present.

(4) Bagacay Kawayan, (5) Bagacay Katipuhan and (6) Bagacay Saong, after “bagakay” or bamboo abundant in the area and utilized by the residents to make various handicrafts. “Kawayan” is the most common local term for bamboo. In Bagacay Kawayan, during the Spanish times, a bamboo thicket grew beside a small pool of mud to where the early inhabitants brought their carabaos to wallow. “Katipuhan” means a place where “tipolo” trees grow in abundance, while “saong” is a tree species whose sap is believed to be similar to that used as paste in the construction of Noah’s Ark.

(7) Bahi, after “bahi” or the hard portion of the trunk of a “pugahan” palm abundant in the place especially during its establishment.

( Basac, after “basak” or rice paddy, no longer found in the village but replaced by patches of “palaw” or “paw”, a water-loving plant species belonging to the taro family. 

(9) Basdacu, coined from “balas” or “ba’as”, which means sand, and “daku”, which means big, both words referring to the wide shoreline that covers the breadth of the barangay. (10) Basdio, also from “ba’as” and “diyo” or “diyot”, the opposite of “daku”; thus, a place where there is a little patch of sand on its shoreline.

(11) Biasong, after trees of an orange variety of the same name that grew near a little spring that flows into the Moalong River.

(12) Bongco, after a legendary shining ball called “trabongko” that giant snakes amused themselves with on dark evenings.

(13) Bugho, presumeably after “buho” or hole, in reference to the ravines and gorges that define the topography of the barangay.

(14) Cabacungan, after the plant named “bakong” which the barangay used to have plenty of.

(15) Cabadug, or place belonging to or owned by “Badug”, purportedly the first inhabitant of the barangay. 

(16) Cabug, after “kabug”, the nocturnal bats seen hanging from the branches of a big “tipolo” tree in the heart of the barangay.

(17) Calayugan Norte and (18) Calayugan Sur, after the swaying of the coconut trees of the island village which, when viewed from the mainland, allegedly looked like they were engaged in a fighting match or “ga-layug”.

(19) Cambaquiz, after "ba's nga nag-ekis-ekis" or sand that crisscrosses from one side of the Cambaquiz point to the other depending on the direction of the waves.  That the name of the barangay comes from the phrase "come back and kiss" is plain hearsay.

(20) Campatud, after a spring called “patud” in the middle of a thick forest where hunters would go to.

(21) Candaigan, after a legendary ever-burning stump of a tree where people kindle or “daig” their oil lamps.

(22) Canhangdon Occidental and (23) Canhangdon Oriental, after a spring called “kanhangdon”, or after its location vis-à-vis the Moalong River; thus, a place to be “halangdon” or to be looked up.

(24) Canigaan, after “Nigaran” a legendary remote place where big “nigad” trees grew in abundance, and to where a black sheep of a son produced from the marriage between a Marimon and a Labastilla was banished; for being a “turo” or bull, he acquired the monicker “Saturos of Canigaran” or Canigaan.

(25) Canmaag, after “mamag” or tarsius, the smallest primate in the world, which were plenty in the area.

(26) Canmanoc, after the wild chickens or “manok” that used to crisscross its lush hills and roost upon the branches of a large “tipolo” tree.

(27) Cansuaguit, after a spring of the same name from which the villagers get much of their water for household use.

(28) Cansubayon, after “subay” or “subayon”, the act of walking along or following the banks of creeks until finally reaching one’s destination; or from “subay-subay”, the term used by the early villagers in reference to the act of catching freshwater fish starting from a spring to a bigger body of water.

(29) Cantam-is Bago, probably a combination of the words “tam-is” or sweet and “bago”, which refers to either a vegetable tree called “bago” or the native cassava cake called “binago”. (30) Cantam-is Baslay, also after “tam-is” or sweet and a spring called “baslay”, an important source of water for the community.

(31) Cantaongon, after the “taongon” tree abundant in the locality.

(32) Cantumocad, after the creek called “sondo” which is located in a “canto” cutting the barangay at its center where one is obliged to “tukad” or take a leap.

(33) Catagbacan Norte, (34) Catagbacan Sur and (35) Catagbacan Handig, from the word “tagbak”, which means to barter or exchange goods produced by upland communities with those harvested from the sea; thus, “katagbacan” means a place where barter takes place. “Handig” was probably named after the location of the place, that is, reclining on the slopes that rise from the plain.

(36) Cogon Norte and (37) Cogon Sur, after the “kogon” grass that doesn’t seem to leave the place despite being burned to open up new areas for agriculture.

(38) Cuasi, after a legend that testifies to the villagers’ propensity to engage in business. A banca filled with merchants was assaulted by strong winds and big waves prompting the elder men to shout “Kawasi!”, an order to disembark or jump overboard to save their merchandise.

(39) Genomoan, after a legend about a carabao left to wallow or “homol” in the river by its owner who had to leave for home because of a stomachache.  The farmer’s condition got serious while it was raining hard causing the river to swell. In his delirium, the farmer kept murmuring about his “hinomolan” or the carabao he left wallowing in the river.

(40) Lintuan, after “balintong-balintong” or “tuwang-tuwang”, the changing movement of sand near Lawis Point caused by the blowing of the south and north winds.

(41) Looc, after the curved shape of its coastline, that is “na lo-ok”.

(42) Mocpoc Norte and (43) Mocpoc Sur, after “pok-pok”, the warning sound produced by knocking a drum hung from a big “pagatpat” or mangrove tree every time the Moros would emerge on the sea, their swift vintas poised to attack the barangay and plunder its homes.

(44) Moto Norte and (45) Moto Sur, after “moto” or hill, the location of the place as referred to by the residents of the coastal barangay of Napo, the town’s original settlement. 

(46) Nagtuang, after “nagatuwang”, a phenomenon in the place where the flow of water from a spring is absorbed in a much higher elevation.

(47) Napo, after “napolo” or “napo’o”, which means island-like, a description of its location that seems separate from the mainland.  “Napo” also means “dapit nga balason” or a sandy place.

(48) Nueva Vida, after the Spanish phrase for “new life”, probably discovered as a new settlement when the population of Catagbacan below it increased.     

(49) Pananquilon, after a medicinal herb called “panankilon” that grows abundantly in the locality.

(50) Pantudlan, after “tulod-tulod”, the thrusting action of the waves resulting in the transfer of the sand to the southern side of Baluarte Point when the north wind blows and to the northern side when the south wind blows.

(51) Pig-ot, after “pi-ot”, the narrow stretch of the provincial road that had been widened by blasting the cliffs and boulders, resulting in the fleeing of the monkeys and total wiping out of their population from their habitat in the enchanted place called “Bogo”.

(52) Pondol, after “pundok-pundok”, “pundo-pundo” or “pondol”, a description of the place which has several “lawis” or points jutting out into the sea; or after “tubig nga gapundo”, or pools of stagnant water found in the place. 

(53) Quinobcoban, after “kinubkoban”, in reference to several holes dug by the early residents of the village in search of sources of water.

(54) Sondol, after “donsol”, a sea slug species abundant in its seashore.

(55) Song-on, after “so-ongon”, an arch-like rock formation along the shoreline that resembles a cave when viewed from the sea, where one has to stoop or “so-ong” to pass through.

(56) Talisay, after the “talisay” trees growing on cliffs hanging over its shoreline.

(57) Tan-awan, after the same word, which means a place from where one gets a good view of the villages below it, being located on the highest peaks of Loon.

(58) Tangnan, after a cave-like hole called “tangnan” that contains fresh water. 

(59) Taytay, after “taytayan” or bridge, a description of the narrow hilltop-located pathway that leads to the center of the village.

(60) Ticugan, after the “tikog” plant whose leaf strips can be woven into mats but whose population in the village had been reduced to zero. 

(61) Tiwi, after the “tiwi” trees that once grew on the eastern part of the village.

(62) Tontonan, or “to use a rope”, after “tonton” or rope that the early residents had to use to scale a high mountain in the village.

(63) Tubodacu and (64) Tubodio, after “tubod” (spring), “daku” (big) and “diyot” or “diyo” (small), descriptions of the villagers’ sources of water.

(65) Tubuan, also after “tubod” or “tuburan”, a local spring.

(66) Ubayon, after “nag-ubay sa baybayon” or straddling the shoreline, a description of its location.

(67) Ubojan, after “ulbohan”, a place where there used to be a spring or natural well from where abundant water gushed in spurts or “ga ulbo-ulbo”.   


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Excellent information, Koddi. Salamat!

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