(a word from the blogger)
Welcome to the land of Danggits, Lawig, Pot-pot’s and Beaches!
Where unfamiliar faces are never a mystery, where smoking chimneys are a sign of a celebration.
This wonderful place symbolizes its citizens undying love for mother nature. Indeed, Palompon is the perfect place to describe mother nature.
Brief History of Palompon
Palompon is one of the oldest and biggest municipalities in the province of Leyte, Region VIII. Established in 1920, its original name was “Hinablyan” which is derived from the Cebuano word “Sablay” (or hang) because the natives in the settlements were so fierce in the repulsing invaders. After killing the invaders, the natives would hang their dead bodies on the branches of trees.
It was a century and seventeen years later when the Spanish conquistadores came to liberate Hinablyan from the Moros who periodically made expeditions into the area. Upon entering the bay in a sailboat, the Spaniard noted a cluster of mangrove flowers (now locally known as “tungki’) floating lazily on a shallow portion of the harbor. They decided to call the place “paung-pung” (meaning cluster). As time passed, “paung-paung” was changed to Palonpong and much later, the last letter was dropped and the town became known by its current name, Palompon.
The municipality is an agricultural area with coconut as the dominant crop, followed by rice, corn, root crops and others crops. It is the center of trade and commerce in the northeastern coast of Leyte. The people are engaged in the agriculture, trade and commerce, fishing, and cottage industries.
The land area of Palompon is 165.80 square kilometers (12,607 hectares). The municipality has fifty (50) barangays, ten (10) of which are poblacion barangays with an area of approximately one square kilometer; the other forty (40) barangays are distributed along the coastline and the in the interior rural and mountainous areas.
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