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Occidental, Escalante City |
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Originally, the town was known
as "Manlambus:, a Cebuano term which literally means "to
strike with a club", because the coastal waters of the town
was teeming with fish in the past that one had only to
strike them with a club -- a "lambus:", in order to catch
them.
In 1860, Fr. Cipriano Navarro, the first Spanish missionary
assigned to the place renamed it after his own hometown in
Spain. Through the years, the name endured and is still
loved and reverred by its townspeople today. Escalante was
created a municipality on December 8, 1861 on orders of then
Governor Emilio Saravia.
It was a very big town then with a population even bigger
than that of Bacolod City until 1939. However, in 1948,
another town, Toboso, was created out of Escalante and this
tremendously reduced the population and land area of the
town.
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