The History of Towns in Region VIII, Philippines
These histories were taken from the book Leyte Towns, Histories/Legends by Francisco S. Tantuico Jr of Tacloban City. Click on a town and view the history below the menu.
Tabango
Tabango was originally a barrio named Tandaya. Most of its
inhabitants lived near the seashore. One day, a man living in the
barrio went to catch some crabs as swamps surrounded the place
and crabs went to catch some crabs as swamps surrounded the place
and crabs were abundant. Although he was an expert in catching
crabs, he was accidentally bitten by a big one. A Spanish soldier
happened to be near the place where the man was, so he came near
and asked for the name of the place. The man bitten by the crab
looked up and saw the soldier. Feeling the pain caused by the
biting of the crab, he cried, "tabang mo," which means
help me. The soldier, thinking it was the name of the place,
said, "Ah, Tabango." The soldier repeated the word
Tabango to his superiors and from that time on, the settlement
was called Tabango. When the barrio was created a municipality,
it retained its name.
The town of Tabango has an approximate area of 13,600 hectares
and has 13 barangays.
Tabango started out as a 5th class municipality in January
1950. In July, 1954, it was lowered into a 4th class municipality
until June 1958 when it was further lowered into a 3rd class one.
However, from July 1972, it was once again classified as a 4th
class municipality and has remained such up to the present.
It was created into an independent municipality on October 15,
1949 by virtue of Executive Order No. 184.
Tabango was inaugurated as a municipality on January 16, 1950.
The municipality of Tabango is separated from its mother
municipality of San isidro from the mouth of the brook
immediately northeast of Sitio Arevalo, on Arevalo Bay and
running easterly through the sitio of Abobo to the boundaries of San Isidro, Calubi-an and Leyte; it is separated from the municipality
of Leyte by the channel of the Naga River
from its mouth to a point by strait line to the common point of
the boundaries of San Isidro, Villaba and Leyte.
The town mayors of Tabango are as follows:
1. Francisco Pastor First appointed January 16, 1950 and was
elected and served up toDecember 31, 1955;
2. Vicente Serino elected and served from January 1, 1956 to May
15, 1959;
3. Diosdado B. Omega elected vice-mayor and served when Mayor
Vicente Serino resigned from May16, 1959 to December 31, 1959;
and
4. Sergio V. Pastor elected Mayor and served from January 1, 1960
up to the present.
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