Escalante City, It's more fun in the Philippines

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Be Proud Escalantehanon!

History

Originally, the town was known as Manlambus, a Visayan term meaning to
strike with a club because its coastal waters were then teeming with
fishes that catching them could simply be done by using a club or
lambus.
It is believed that Escalante was inhabited since 11th A.D. per
artifacts unearthed by Siliman University Anthropological Team in
1975-76. It was created a municipality on November 28, 1856 on orders of
Gobernador Manuel Crespo, with Nueva Sevilla (now Old Poblacion) as the
seat of government. In 1860, Fr. Cipriano Navarro, the first Spanish
Missionary assigned to the place renamed it to Escalante, after his
hometown in Spain.
Escalante was then a very big town with population bigger than that
of Bacolod until 1939. However, Toboso, one of the biggest barangays of
the town was separated from it in 1948 to be a Municipality by virtue of
Executive Order No. 141 by President Elpidio Quirino decreasing its
area and population.
The seat of the Municipal Government was transferred from Barangay
Old Poblacion to Barangay Balintawak per Executive Order 301, dated May
30, 1958 by President Carlos P. Garcia .
Escalante was converted into a component city of Negros Occidental
when its charter, R.A. 9014 was signed into law on February 28, 2001 by
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, which was subsequently ratified in a
plebiscite on March 2001.
This progressive city is the home of Manlambus Festival every 30th of
May in celebration of its rich cultural heritage and glorious past that
every Escalantehanon loves to share and tell. As its present dictum
goes… ABANTE ESCALANTE, MASARANGAN NATO KINI!

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