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Isabela, Negros Occ. History

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Before the coming of the Spaniards in the Island of Negros, the area where Isabela is now was once a part of a large coastal settlement called “INABAGAN” which is now the town of Binalbagan. The place was once inhabited by the natives whom the earliest explorers called “PINTADOS’ because the natives has tatoos on their bodies and the Spaniards thought that they painted their bodies. To the natives however, they called those occupying the coastal areas as the ‘HIGUENCINAS’ while those in the upland and hills (like the area of Isabela) were called “IGNEINES’.

Among the early villages in the area of Isabela was ‘TINUNGAN’ (Now Barangay Tinongan). During the Spanish occupation of the island when the town of Himamaylan was founded (about the year 1798 “TINUNGAN’ was made a visita of the Parish of Himamaylan, and makeshift chapel of bamboo and nipa and sawali was built there. The site of the “first church” however, was plague by recurring floods during the rainy days when the river would overflow. In 1834, the Parish Priest of Himamaylan, Father Agustin Silva transferred the church in Tinongan to another place called “MANACUP’, which is now the present site of the Poblacion of Isabela.


Libas is a barangay in the municipality of Isabela, province of Negros Occidental, Western Visayas (Region VI), Philippines. The latest population is 1384 ...
Postal code: 6128
Estimated elevation above sea level: 97.0 meters (318.2 feet)
Population (2020): 1,384

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