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| Return to Our Beloved Town | |||||||
| Overview I Human Resources I Natural Resources I Yano Ay...Ito Baga! I Photo Gallery | |||||||
| BRIEF HISTORY | |||||||
| ����������� According to the writings of Father Valentin Martin in his Ensayo De Una Sintesis de los Trabajos Realizados Sos Las Corporaciones Religiosas Espanolas De Filipinas, the first record of the establishment of a settlement in Calauag dates as far as the year 1584.� However, the formal founding of the town was placed in the year 1851 with the union of the settlements in Apad and Calauag. | |||||||
| ����������� The name Calauag was derived from an incident in which a huge turtle know locally as Kala �was caught near the seashore of the town.� When the people tried to kill the turtle with sticks, the fisherman who caught the turtle dissuaded and pleaded them from doing so by shouting in the native language, Kala, Huwag! Kala, Huwag! meaning don't kill the turtle and such pleadings were repeated several times they finally allowed the turtle t swim back to the sea.� Since then, whenever a turtle is caught, people will warn those who would like to kill it by saying Kala, Huwag, Kala, Huwag.� As time went on, people will always point to the particular settlements near the shore where turtles abound with cautious reference as Kala-Huwag, and it stuck to the minds of the natives hence, the derivation of the name Calauag.� It was obvious that during the Spanish colonization, and since Spain don't have letters K and W� in their alphabet, instead of KALAWAG, they wrote in all their writings and documents the name CALAUAG. | |||||||
| ����������� The first elected Captain of the town was Juan Sunog.� In� 1897, the town was placed under the Revolutionary Government and Alipio Declaro became the Municipal President.� In 1914, the town was destroyed by fire for the first time.� On December 24, 1941, the town was occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army but was liberated by the American Forces on April 19, 1945. | |||||||
| ����������� It was said that the first settlers of Calauag came from Perez (Buenavista) and Tikay (Guinayangan) who joined the originalinhabitants living in Pinagbayanan and Apad.� The population gradually increased through migration largely from the nearby towns of Lopez, Gumaca and Atimonan and from the Bicol provinces.� Sprinkling of settlers also came from Mauban and from some settlements in the Bondoc peninsula.� The population is predominantly Tagalog with the Bicolanos coming in second.� Business-minded Batanguenos outnumbered all others from the Tagalog speaking provinces who migrated to Calauag and called it home. | |||||||