| Item Call Number |
GE00855 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE00855 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE00855
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| Main Entry |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Gandara Church ruins
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ayala Museum Research Team
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| General Note |
- General note - Lying at 12ยบ latitude Gandara (formerly Bangahon) is watered by the rich Gandara River which branches into a complex network of creeks. Bounded by Mount Capotoan at the northeast, it has Tarangnan at the southwest, Sta. Margarita at the midwest, Calbayog at the northwest and a small part of Pambujan at its northernmost tip. The Jesuits came to the town in 1596 and made it one of the villages under the mission in Tinagon. A report on the status of the mission in 1609-1616 accounts for a church and 187 tributaries receiving religious instructions from the Jesuit clerics. The church that the Jesuits built in the old town of Bangahon was destroyed in a big conflagration in 1862. Thereafter, the Franciscans constructed a new church-convento complex in an elevated area quite remote from the hearly of sustained major damages from the torrential rains that constantly plaqued the island. Bangahon was often plundered by Moro sea pirates who sailed to the Visayas to capture natives for the slave markets in Borneo. The town''s mountainous terrains abound in different varieties of wood including carisao, and cunumay palm and rattan, excellent pastures and wildlife. Two rivers naturally irrigate the fields during the planting season: one runs from the north through the northwest to the southeast and changes course to the west cutting through the town to the south; to other originates from the Paranas and runs from the south to the north, twisting at the west to irrigate the southern part of the town and then turning back to the north. The meeting of the currents of the rivers has caused the formation of a large lake called Sapinit and the occasional inundation of the southeastern part of the town. In the plains are cultivated enough rice to sustain in the town, abaca, palauan and camote. Bangahon exports its surplus produce to Catbalogan. Bangahon was renamed Gandara to honor Lt. General Jose de la Gandara y Navarro (1866-1869), military man turned governor-general. During his incumbency, he adopted a uniform monetary system and implemented reforms on primary education. In 1901 Spanish officials transferred Gandara to a new townsite because of repeated attacks of the insurgents led by Gen. Lukban.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Immediate Source Of Acquisition Note |
- Source of acquisition - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Filipinas Heritage Library
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1970
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Provinces and cities
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Gandara, Western Samar
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1970
- Focus term - amrt
- Focus term - Bangahon
- Focus term - samar
- Focus term - visayas
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