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Look:Bulabog Putian National ParkThe Bulabog Putian National Park is a protected wildlife and natural park located in th...
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Bulabog Putian National Park

The Bulabog Putian National Park is a protected wildlife and natural park located in the towns of Di**le and San Enrique in the province of Iloilo on the island of Panay in the Western Visayas region. The park covers an area of 854.33 hectares (2,111.1 acres)along a 40 kilometers (25 mi) trail in this rainforest. It was established in 1961 through Proclamation No. 760 signed by President Carlos P. Garcia.The park is known for its unique geological formation and is the only limestone mountain formation in Iloilo.

Bulabog Putian is located in the northern Iloilo municipalities of Di**le and San Enrique, some 43 kilometres (27 mi) from Iloilo City. It spans the Di**le barangays of Moroboro, Lincud, Camambugan, Caguyuman, and Tulatulaan, and the San Enrique barangays of Rumagayray, Campo, Palje, and Lip-ac. The park's central feature is the Bulabog Putian mountains, which contain the 1,056-foot (322 m) Putian Peak, the highest in Central Iloilo dominating the surrounding plains.The mountain was named for its most distinguishing feature, a white stone wall on the north side that is visible from as far away as Passi.

The park also contains 13 caves, the most prominent of which are the Maestranza Cave, Guiso Cave, and Lapuz Lapuz Cave. The Maestranza Cave is a habitat of an estimated 20,000 fruit bats while the Guiso Cave is home to 18 different species of bats.It also has several springs including the Moroboro Spring. On the park's eastern side lies Lake Bito. A dam of the Jalaur River can also be found in the park.
The Bulabog Putian National Park supports diverse species of plants and animals. Among its fauna inhabitants are the Philippine coucal, iguanas, monkeys, turtle doves, green imperial pigeons, reptiles, and several species of bats. As a secondary growth forest, it supports hardwood tree species such as dao, molave, and narra.

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"Di**le Hymn"
Composed & Lyrics by: Jose J. Perono

There's a town in the island of Panay
Everyone there is happy and gay
All the people there
Busy all the day
Friendly smiles you see them everywhere

There's a town in the island of Panay
Everyone there is happy and gay
All the people there
Busy all the day
Friendly smiles you see them everywhere

Town of Di**le
I'll n'er forget
My humble home
Where I dearly love to roam

Town of Di**le
Keep me closer unto thee
Ever and forever
Onward to the end

Town of Di**le
I'll n'er forget
My humble home
Where I dearly love to roam

Town of Di**le
Keep me closer unto thee
Ever and forever
I will sing you mabuhay

Ever and forever
I will sing you mabuhay... 🇵🇭

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History of Di**le - Part 10

Independence (1946–present)
Post-war rehabilitation

The war against Japan officially ended on September 2, 1945 with the signing of the term of formal surrender of the Japanese Imperial Government. The aftermath of the war found most of the poblacion in ruins.This, however, was the handiwork of the guerillas and not of the Japanese occupation forces.

The town made a rebound under the leadership of municipal mayor Julio Dayot Muyco, then serving a carry-over of his term. He initiated rehabilitation schemes for the municipality, with priorities extended to the peace and order situation, the re-establishment of classes, and the reconstruction of damaged roads and public buildings. The town's economy visibly improved. Market activities resumed in the poblacion's public market, first on Sundays, but later on through a consensus among the town's officials, on Saturdays.

It was also during this period when municipal mayor Julio Dayot Muyco worked out for the donation of a permanent site for the Di**le Citizen Army Training Center, an army training camp. Former Di**le municipal president LuĂ­s R. Dayot made the initial seven-hectare grassland donation for the said purpose.This site, now the Philippine Army Camp Adriano D. Hernandez, today serves as a training and mobilization center not only for the town and province of Iloilo, but also serves the country's citizen army training requirements.

Julián Masna was appointed municipal mayor in 1945 during the last days of the Commonwealth government under President Sergio Osmeña, and continued the reconstruction and rehabilitation work begun by Julio Dayot Muyco.

In 1947, Alfonso Muyco Espino was elected municipal mayor during the country's first post-war local elections. He ran as a Liberal against former puppet mayor Remedios Dacudao, a Nacionalista.During his administration, more municipal and barrio roads were constructed. The town plaza and the poblacion itself underwent major beautification changes. The swimming pool in Barrio Moroboro was deepened and widened. These improvements brought in more tourists, whose patronage generated some income for the municipality and for some enterprising small businesses that catered to their needs. In the same year, the Di**le Agricultural and Technical College (DATEC) and Di**le Junior High School were opened in Barrio San Matias.

In 1954, the sitio of Nazuni was converted into a barrio and was added as a barangay of Di**le.

In 1955, President Ramon Magsaysay personally inaugurated the Jalaur Diversion Irrigation Dam constructed at Barrio Moroboro during the administration of municipal mayor Alfonso Muyco Espino and vice-mayor Maximiliano D. Dayot for the benefit of about 11,000 farmers and 14,000 hectares of farmland in the municipalities of Di**le, Zarraga, Pototan, Barotac Nuevo, Dumangas, Anilao, and Banate.

In 1955–1956, José J. Perono composed the hymn "Town of Di**le," the official municipal hymn of the Municipality of Di**le, officially adopted by the municipality during the incumbency of municipal mayor Robin Espino Solinap in 2006.

History of Di**le - Part 9Guerilla MovementAmong the Di**leanons who took a more active part in the military operations ...
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History of Di**le - Part 9

Guerilla Movement

Among the Di**leanons who took a more active part in the military operations of the guerilla movement were Lt. Raymundo Muyco Espino and his elder brother, Lt. Alfonso Muyco Espino. Brig. Gen. Alfredo D. Dayot and Brig. Gen. Noé D. Dayot, survivors of the 1942 Bataan Death March, joined the former after they were released as prisoners of war in Capas, Tarlac. On the other hand, Gen. Vivencio D. Dayot, the first Filipino radar expert, was sent to the United States to avoid his capture by the Japanese forces as his contribution to the development of radar was vital to the needs of the Imperial Japanese Army. Others with similar notable exploits were Lt. Mateo Luto, Capt. Fulgencio Dairo, and Maj. Abelardo Muyco. These men, together with many other Di**leanons involved in the guerilla movement, took part in ambushes against enemy patrol and reconnaissance forces. These ambushes, however, often resulted in heightened enemy operations, then called "pe*******on" involving reprisal raids and search and destroy missions conducted against the civilian population.

Also in 1942, the guerillas burned all the houses and public buildings within the poblacion. Only the market place and the Catholic church were left practically undamaged. This they did while conducting some sort of scorched earth policy.The guerillas believed that with the houses and buildings gone, the Japanese would not set up a permanent garrison in the town.

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History of Di**le - Part 8

Japanese Occupation

Immediately after the U.S. declaration of war on Japan on December 8, 1941, a squadron of Japanese planes flew over Di**le on its way to bomb Iloilo City. The townspeople went out of their houses into the streets and looked at the passing formation quite indifferent and unconcerned, unaware that war was going on. Only when a lone straggler, on its way from the bombing mission overflew the town at a very low altitude and directed bursts of machine gun fire against the citizen army training center, now Camp Adriano D. Hernandez, did the townspeople seek some sort of shelter.

Residents from the poblacion of Di**le left their homes and sought refuge in the town's far-flung barrios and mountainsides. They were joined by many others from Iloilo City and its adjoining towns, including Di**leanons who have been residing from other provinces. Among the more prominent who took shelter in Di**le were the families of post-war Iloilo governor Mariano Peñaflorida and post-war Iloilo 4th District Assemblyman Ceferino de los Santos of Pototan, and the brothers Eugenio and Fernando Lopez of Jaro, Iloilo. Peñaflorida stayed at Barrio Caguyuman at the foot of Mount Bulabog while the latter three sought refuge at Mount Dumingding. Thatched makeshift shelters and lean-tos blossomed overnight on the town's foothills and mountainsides. Many barrio residents shared their homes with the evacuees.

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History of Di**le - Part 7

American Occupation

In December 1900, a fire destroyed all the buildings in town save for the stone church. Following the assistance obtained by Don Maximiliano Dayot from the American government in Iloilo, the town was rebuilt, but the structures were of bamboo and nipa owing to the difficulty of obtaining lumber. In the same year, the town was recorded to have a population of 11,000.

In 1903, by virtue of Act No. 719, an Act reducing the fifty-one municipalities of the province of Iloilo to seventeen, Di**le, alongside the town of Mina, was annexed to Pototan under the Americans, the latter being larger in population and was economically more prosperous. Nonetheless, through the efforts of then Iloilo 4th District Assemblyman Adriano Hernández y Dayot, the separation of the town from Pototan was given impetus in 1907. Mina, however, would remain with Pototan until their eventual separation in 1968 by virtue of Republic Act No. 5442.

LOOK:Inauguration of the bronze monument of Gen. Adriano Hernández y Dayot erected in 1931 in the town plaza of Di**le
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Inauguration of the bronze monument of Gen. Adriano Hernández y Dayot erected in 1931 in the town plaza of Di**le

LOOK:Abangay Bridge over the Abangay River between Di**le and Pototan, Iloilo. Completed and opened for traffic on June ...
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Abangay Bridge over the Abangay River between Di**le and Pototan, Iloilo. Completed and opened for traffic on June 15, 1912 during the term of Adriano Hernández y Dayot as Iloilo governor.

LOOK:Di**le Town Hall in 1929
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Di**le Town Hall in 1929

The History Of Cry Of LincudDuring the second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain during the Spanish–Americ...
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The History Of Cry Of Lincud

During the second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain during the Spanish–American War, Di**le staged the first armed uprising in the province of Iloilo and in the island of Panay. The leaders of the victorious uprising were Gen. Adriano Hernández y Dayot, Gen. Julio Hernández y Dayot, Maj. Estefano Muyco y Dayot, Maj. Nicolás Roces, Lt. Col. Francisco Jalandoni, and Col. Quintín Salas who fought together with 600 revolucionarios. Now known as the "Cry of Lincud," the revolt commenced at the house of José Dayot in Barrio Lincud on October 28, 1898. Today, this event which started the Philippine Revolution in Iloilo is commemorated as a special non-working holiday. Through Presidential Proclamation 697, October 28, 2024 was declared a special non-working day in celebration of Cry of Lincud.

History of Di**le - Part 6On March 8, 1820, with the support of 31 cabezas de barangay of the principalĂ­a or the hispani...
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History of Di**le - Part 6

On March 8, 1820, with the support of 31 cabezas de barangay of the principalía or the hispanized Christian descendants of the pre-colonial datus of Di**le and certification of the parish priest of Laglag, Fray Juan Frayle, OSA (Di**le cura párroco, 1829–1849), a petition for the re-elevation of Di**le into a pueblo was submitted to Miguel Calderón, alcalde mayor (equivalent to the present-day provincial governor) of Iloilo, through the leadership of the Di**leño teniente mayor (deputy gobernadorcillo) of Laglag, Don Juan Marcelino Dayot (Di**le gobernadorcillo, 1829–1835).

On April 28, 1823, Di**le was thus re-elevated into a pueblo after five years under Dumangas and 182 years under Laglag. Its first gobernadorcillo in almost 200 years was Don Julio Dator (1823–1827). In 1829, during the tenure of Don Juan Marcelino Dayot as gobernadorcillo and Fray Juan Frayle as parish priest of Laglag, under which parish Di**le still belonged to, construction of the present church made of granite stone quarried from nearby Bulabog Putian mountains commenced. In 1838, the pueblo had 3,736 people.Two of the more notable gobernadorcillos of Di**le who sold some of their vast landholdings to pay for the tributes of their constituents were Don Magdaleno Muyco (1835–1843, 1851–1853) and Don Luís Cantalicio Dayot (1853–1861, 1869–1873), respectively better known to the Di**leanons as Tan Mano and Tan Cantaling.

On November 21, 1849, governor-general Clavería issued a decree requiring Filipinos to adopt Spanish and indigenous names from the Catalogo Alfabetico de Apellidos for civil and legal purposes. Upon the orders of Iloilo alcalde mayor Felipe Combe, surnames with the same initial letters as the initial letters of the corresponding pueblo were to be assigned. As such, surnames starting with the digraphs da- and de- were distributed to Di**le, e.g. Daguro, Dairo, Dayatan, Deaño, Deatrás.

On August 16, 1850, by order of governor-general Urbiztondo, Di**le became a parish independent from that of Laglag, recently renamed as Dueñas in 1845. Its first patron was St. Monica. It was later changed to the Assumption of Our Lady, and finally, to St. John the Baptist. In 1865, Fray Fernando Llorente y Santos ordered the continuation of the construction of the current structure of the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist which was completed in 1886. Fray Llorente, during the time when he was parish priest from 1865 to 1874, had a cemetery with a chapel built under his direction, and two schools for children of both sexes, and formed an orchestra and musical band of 42 boys whom he instructed by himself. Fray Melquiades Arizmendi continued the completion of the church from 1876 to 1887, while Fray Rafael Murillo completed the construction from 1887 to 1893. The construction of the church from Fray Llorente covered the terms of gobernadorcillos Domingo Osano, Luís Cantalicio Dayot, and Santiago and Tomás Sanico. The bell tower, however, remains unfinished to this day. In 1896, the population of Di**le swelled to 12,504.

History of Di**le - Part 5In 1617, the prior of Baong was asked to contribute an annual rent of 10 pesos to the Monaster...
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History of Di**le - Part 5

In 1617, the prior of Baong was asked to contribute an annual rent of 10 pesos to the Monastery of Santo Niño in Cebu.

In 1628, the pueblo of Baong and its visitas had two Augustinian priests and a population of 2,400. In 1629, however, the pueblo was nearly depopulated because of the incursion of the Ati and run-away slaves who destroyed farms and killed most of the settlement's population. Although the pueblo endured, only about 600 of the inhabitants survived. As it is remote from trade and situated inland in Panay, residence here was regarded as exile. During the same year, Baong was made a mere visita of Dumangas. This was motivated by the decrease in population, as many townspeople had left because of fear of the Atis, the so-called remontados, who would suddenly come down from the mountains to plunder their ricefields.

In 1634, Fray Alonso de Méntrida managed to secure a seemingly independent existence for the settlement but in 1641, the pueblo became so small when it was again depopulated that it was annexed as a visita to Laglag, present-day Dueñas, and remained as such for 182 years. Not even the report of Augustinian Father Provincial Pedro Velasco in 1760 mentioned it. For the next two centuries, Baong will be sharing its history with Laglag.

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