Province of QUEZON
Municipality of LOPEZ
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The municipality of Lopez was founded on April 30, 1856. Many know how this town has struggled from nothing to what it is now... a prosperous and only first class municipality in southern Quezon.
I. TALOLONG
Kalilayan Kingdom of Lakan Bugtali
There once was a flourishing coastal settlement somewhere in the southern part of the municipality of Gumaca called TALOLONG. The settlement�s name Talolong was derived from the name of sturdy trees abundant in the place called Talolong with a scientific name Drypetes Borbini and Balikbikan as its national name.
The original location of the settlement was in the marshy mouth of a sedate river, which was founded by the descendants of DATU DUMANGSIL and BALINSUSA of the KALILAYAN KINGDOM. Due to the frequent plundering and terrorism of the pirates, the colony was transferred to the present town�s location.
The settlement of Lakan Bugtali who founded the community of Gumaca was gone. Even a trace of its remains cannot be identified neither the vantages of the Encomienda of Kalilayan nor a fraction of its 16th century glories. When it became a sitio through a Papal Bull, the village started to manage by her own.
The Town Founded by Don Mateo Lopez
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