Chapter 7
3rd wave - foundation of town
* highlighted in violet is the timeline or date
1837- Banate turned into a town
- It was a visita of Dumangas. Appointment of Felix Babiera as the first gobernadorcillo in 1837 that Banate had been referred to as a town. Included within the territorial jurisdiction of the town of Banate were Barotac Viejo and Anilao
1843 - Banate was re-annexed to Dumangas then became a visita of Barotac Nuevo until 1843 when it was declared again as independent parish with St. John the Baptist as its titular patron. Seven years later, governor-general Antonio Blanco without doubt forgetting the earlier decree declared Banate as an independent parish on April 15, 1850 at the same time as that of Anilao
Foundation of Estancia
1847 - The first settlers were the families of Latinu Rodriguez and his family as well as his brother-in-law and Juan Magbanua alias “Juan Daguil”, who was reputed to be an expert hunter. These first settlers engaged in kaingin eventually clearing the whole forest where they settled by becoming sedentary farmers and fishermen. Policarpio Mosqueda alias “Capoy” later came and married “Bandang”,the daughter of Latino. They were joined by several other families from Pilar (Capiz), Balasan and Sara which settled in Botongon, a jutting outlying hill. The early town site was first established in “Da-an Banwa”meaning old town. Years later, the population grew in Da-an Banwa so that some of the settlers began to move to the northern portion of the town near the seashore. They called this place “Lanubo”which means young .
A rich Spaniard by the name of Don Felipe Aguilar bought vast tract of land in Panay the area of which stretches from Punta Bacay in Dumangas, Iloilo up to Tuang-tuang Kambang Bato between Ibajay and Kalibo. Covering the whole of Northern Iloil and almost half of the old Capiz, Don Felipe Aguilar converted the area into an “estancia."
1862 - Governor Esteban Pavon of Concepcion sub-province established there a rancheria while Fray Ricardo Sanchez built a Church. Its name came from the Spanish word "estancia" (ranch) because it was a part of the wide ranch of Don Felipe Aguilar a Spanish governor.
1852 – Pueblo of San Miguel.
Due to this happening, the place was tentatively named San Miguel instead of town of Angoy until in 1852 where it was officially named San Miguel under its first Capitan Tiburcio Montaño.
1840 - Casa Real of Spanish Governor
Picture of Casa Real de Iloilo or the Iloilo Provincial Capitol circa 1910
Iloilo Provincial Capitol or Casa Real was built in 1840 as government center of Spanish Chief of Iloilo.
1848 - Pavia split from Jaro and form a new town
1848 - Pavia although only 8 Km from Jaro did not stop the inhabitants to form into a new town. It was established in 1848 by the Spanish as a town of the district of Jaro, 13 landowners decided to shape the future of the former camping place decisively noted as “biya-biya”, meaning neglected or abandoned.
> 1849 - Iloilo acquired Surnames
1849 - Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria y Zaldua have sent a copy of catalog of surnames to the chiefs of province of Iloilo and its towns a decree by assigning surnames whose first letters corresponded to the first letters of the names of the pueblos. Molo was assigned surnames beginning with letter M. The nationalistic natives did not take Spanish surnames but instead adopted native surnames like Magahum, Mabilog, Malabanjot, Mabunay, Maprangala, Macatiag, Malabor, Magbanua and Macatual.
Jaro got J’es , Santa Barbara got S’es , Guimbal got G’es , Pototan got P’es , Maasin got M’es , Cabatuan got C’es , Dumangas got G’es , Duenas got the L's ,
1853 Zaraga split from Santa Barbara and form a new town
An immense swamp land and deep Jalaur river was been a great barrier that posed the people of Dumangas to have a difficult movement to the next land beyond the Jalaur Iloilo. Thus, the inhabited sleepy hollow favored some families of Santa Barbara (stretching Lucena which borders Pototan) on 1700's to spread
into that place with abundance of big trees, cogon and wild tall grasses. (This is the very reason why people of Zarraga speaks Karay-a. They begun to reside the area and cultivate the land with easy access to river perfect for their agricultural needs. The inhabitants grew in number by 1853 large enough that Spanish government qualify the village into township.
On one fine day Marcelino Poblador, Fulgencio Pinuela, Eugenio Pedro Zarraga and Marcelino Pinuela formed the town in 1853. The town of Zarraga was named after Pedro Zarraga, the alcalde mayor of Irong-Irong (now Iloilo City).
1855 - Election in Iloilo
Election of gobernadorcillos, a leader of a town or pueblo was conducted in Iloilo principalía of Dumangas, Ajuy, Banate, and Anilao.
1858 - Leganes was born
Leganes principalia
An unknown families of Salog settled 11 kilometers eastward. Because the place was not inhabited by people, wild boars lived and thrived the place and was conveniently called Guihaman meaning a wild boar place. Soon the boar got extinct due to hunting for food. Communities increased in population that it became obvious. Learning of the settlement, Don Ysidro A. Brudit, the Spanish governor of Iloilo have to incorporate the place. He decreed sometime in 1856 that it will be registered as a pueblo otherwise a fine of P 600 pesos will be levied on its inhabitants. In compliance with the decree, the place was registered as a pueblo in 1858 called " Valencia "in honor of its patron saint, San Vicente Ferrer of Valencia. After its establishment as a township, there was an influx of new settlers, merchants and government workers.
Photo Source: Felix Laureano , Madrid Spain - Principalia de Leganes de Iloilo (Upper Class of Leganes 1880)
1862 - Pueblo of Carles and Balasan
1846 - Francisco Ariola, son of the datu from Jolo, together with his men settled in the shores at the tip of Panay, 150 kilometer north of the province of Iloilo claimed by pueblo of Pilar, Capiz. It was called Punta Bulakawe as seen in the Spanish map of 1834. Because its very thinly inhabited, the settlers extended their clearing up the jungles and virgin lands for development. Don Juan Silverio, the military governor of Capiz commissioned Ariola to facilitate transportation of families recruited from Antique and Aklan fifty families from Navas. The land was not adequate to yield for agricultural cultivation to sustain the growing demand for subsistence for settlers who grow in number.
Balasan in the latter part of 1852. Ariola commissioned Vicente Navales to look for a place with a better food supply. As Vicente Navales moved southward, he came upon a vast fertile plain near the bank of the river where the Barangay of Maya is located.
Towards 1856 as the general clearing progressed, Francisco transferred Bulakawe to the lowland south of the settlement. The settlement was named " Badiang", which means “wild giant gabi variety” because of the abundance of this plant in the vicinity of the new site. As streets were laid out, Ariola, caused the equal distribution of the home lots to settlers along side the new created streets. Some settlers however built their homes near farms. This later led to the formation of other barrio settlements.
On January 1860, the leaders of the Barrio Badiang headed by Francisco Ariola went to Capiz to petition the provincial government to make Barrio Badiang a municipality. The governor denied the petition on the ground that Barrio Badiang was only newly created and was not yet capable of becoming a pueblo. Not discouraged by their first failure, the petitioners traveled for days to Iloilo to bring this petition to Spanish governor Jose Maria Carles. Governor Carles approved the petition. In gratitude to Governor Carles for his approval of this petition presented another petition to change the name Badiang to Carles in honor of the governor. Barrio Badiang became a “pueblo”. Alejandro Buaya was chose the first gobernadorcillo del pueblo and the place was called Carles, a new town of Iloilo Province.
1870 - A town of Mina was born
The barrio was founded through the efforts of Capitan Antonio Poblacion known as Kapitan Roa who banded together and persuaded a group of families to settle down on the chosen site reportedly owned by a certain Kapitan Patricio Ubalde or
Kapitan Ato. To attract settlers, Kapitan Roa offered to give free home lots to those who decide to settle there. Families attracted by such offer flocked to the site and became the first barrio residents.
A civil decree issued by General La Torre in 1870 lawfully created the civil town of Montogawe. The decree provided that the residents of the area of the newly founded town should build a church, a municipal building and a schoolhouse. The church was built through the concerted efforts of Kapitan Antonio Poblacion, the locals and Spanish officials, and the residents.
Montogawe was elevated to a parish in 1872 but no parish priest was assigned. The Spanish Government has forgotten or overlooked the conditions of the 1870 Civil Decree of General La Torre. So, on July 30, 1873 it issued another decree declaring Montogawe a parish.
1872 - Comandancia de Concepcion
Legendary football star Paulino Alcantara with his mother and sibling
Bacjawan - Mangrove Forest
1855 - Bacjawan was formally founded as a pueblo with Felizardo Azucena as its first capitan basal or gobernadorcillo. Later, the local cabesas de barangay petitioned the Spanish comandante Enrique Garcia to change the name of the town from “Bacjawan” to “Concepcion”, in honor of the first born daughter of Capitan Azucena. The Pope of Rome has newly define Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception in 1854.
Spanish whose stationed in Iloilo takes sea when travelling to Concepcion and the rest of ancient coastal villages of Iloilo del Norte.
Sugar farming extended in Bakhawan through Muelley Loney
1860's - people of Jaro were encouraged to go the vast land of "Norte" to start the sugarcane plantation. The agricultural ventures was successful and the Spanish government and hacienderos were gaining profit. Ajuy, Sara, Lakdayan, Estancia, Balasan and Carles.
Vice-consul Loney and Iloilo governor Emilio de Carles visited Concepcion to find out its potential for sugar production. They took a Manila-bound ship in Iloilo and disembarked in the port of Concepcion while the ship proceeded to Manila. Loney and Carles spent 12 days surveying Concepcion and the surrounding areas
before going back to Iloilo by the overland route. In his report, Loney said the area was so fertile that “it is capable of raising anything producible in the tropics.”
Concepcion turned into Spanish headquarters
1872 - Its strategic location of Bakjawan as ideal and natural harbor for boats for Spanish galleons, Chinese junks, and ships of other countries called in to trade, make repairs or seek shelter from storms turned into commandancia or headquarters on an east-side hill overlooking the strait separating the mainland from the nearby Opaw island (now called San Vicente), so-named after its bald hilltops.
The Comandancia became notorious as the site where Filipino prisoners were imprisoned, tortured and executed. It is said that many condemned prisoners were hanged to death from a big Talisay tree which still stands today within the compounds of the Concepcion Polytechnic College, a living testament to the Spanish brutality. However, the last comandante who served in Concepcion, a Spaniard by the name of Carlos Paoli, was noted for his sympathy and kindness, and was well-liked by the local inhabitants.
Today two adjoining barangay west of Poblacion still carry Bacjawan as its name.
Bacjawan bears the names assigned to its ancient Malay villages : They are Aglosong, Agnaga, Bacjawan Norte, Bacjawan Sur, Bagongon, Batiti, Botlog, Calamigan, Dungon, Igbon, Jamul-awon, Lo-ong, Macalbang, Macatunao, Malangabang, Maliogliog, Nińo, Nipa, Plandico, Poblacion, Polopińa, Salvacion, Talotu-an, Tambaliza and Tamis-ac
Birthplace of Alcantara
Victoriana Camilan Riestra married a Spanish military officer Eduardo Alcantara of Barcelona who was assigned in Spanish Commandancia in Concepcion, Iloilo. Their child Paulino Alcantara y Riestra was born in Concepcion, Iloilo on October 7, 1897.
He was the first Filipino and Asian player to play for a European football club and was hailed by the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) as “the best Asian player of all time” in 2007.
Alcantara's of Sara married Achurra (Spanish Basque stock from northern Spain called Biscay) some families spread to Lemery.
Sara and Lakdayan secede from Concepcion
1877- the Spaniards who have traveled northward coast of Iloilo had discovered natives who with their houses built near the seashore called this “Lakdayan”. The Spaniards established a seat of government in Concepcion. Its surrounding barrios are San Dionisio, Ajuy and Sara. The head of the local government of Concepcion was called Kapitan while the subordinate leaders in San Dionisio were called Tenientes and Cabezas de Barangay .
Barangay of San Dionisio includes
1. Odiongan
2. Capinang
3. Cudionan
4. Bagacay
5. Nipa
1877 - A village of San Juan separated from Concepcion and became a town. San Dionisio and Lemery were attached to San Juan. The Augustinians fathers founded Sara into a “pueblo” under the patronage of Saint John the Baptist whose feast is celebrated on June 24th. Formerly it’s just barrio San Juan that includes much of Ajuy. It became a regular parish in 1895 with father Paulino Diaz as curate.
Barangay of Sara
Ilongbukid, Maremhon, Lawa-an, Bai-ran, Batuan, Agsinapot, Maligayligay, Samponongbolo, Alabidhan, Ambolong, Busay, Caburra, Asue Pabriaga, Balabago, Alawehao, Quinasop-an, Bolod , Aglahog, Madarag, Serruco, Salvacion, Ajuz, Talisay, Masonson, Quipot, Quipot, Damasco.
Lucena converted into a Town
1877 – Lucena - lead by Bartolome Valenzuela, a prominent resident of the barrio (Jimanban) the residents organized themselves and petitioned to the Governor General that they be granted independence by putting up a church, convent, and a casa real (Municipal Building ). With the help of the provincial officials and captain municipal of the municipalities of Sta. Barbara , Cabatuan and Pototan, Lucena was separated from Sta. Barbara on October 9, 1877 in accordance with the Direction General De Administration Civil. The first municipal officials were elected and the first captain municipal was Bartolome Valenzuela known as Tan Abe, the grandfather of the late senator Tomas Confessor and Representative Patricio Confessor
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