| Item Call Number |
GE01854 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
GE01854 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - GE01854
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| Title Statement |
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| General Note |
- General note - The point or cape jutting out from the southeastern coast of Panay and directly opposite Guimaras island was called Ilong-ilong by pre-hispanic natives on account of its nose-like shape. It was called La Punta by the Spaniards during the 16th and 17th centuries and here Governor Pedro de Acuña built a fort and a few barracks, to defend western Visayas against Dutch and Muslim incursions. Previously scarcely inhabited, because it was a mangrove swamp, the settlement gradually increased in population after Governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera gave orders in 1637 and again in 1647 to vacate Arevalo in favor of La Punta. Several houses had to be torn down in Arevalo because the people refused to settle at La Punta. In time, the former fishing village flourished and was made the new capital of the province and a city in 1893 under the Maura Law; it reverted to municipality status in 1898 under the Americans; in 1937 became a chartered city, absorbing Mandurriao, La Paz and the older towns of Jaro, Molo and Arevalo as its districts. Photo taken on top of Bala-an Bukid in Guimaras shows the nose-like projection a low, sandy flat at the mouth of the river on the western side of the Iloilo strait. Fort San Pedro Park is seen on the foreground.
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| Additional Physical Form Available Note |
- Additional physical form available note - With prints
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - 1971
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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 - Iloilo City
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