Panilongon Historic Marker unveiled in the New Rizal Park Dumaguete City Negros Oriental

 

Dumaguete City Philippines: The National Historical Commission of the Philippines, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Dumaguete City Government, and Presidential Communications Operations Office the main organizers in these historic events. The biggest names in Dumaguete Community together with our local Historians, guests and, government officials in Negros Oriental witness the event 

Hon. Chaco Sagarbarria ,Hon. Karissa Faye Tolentino -Maxino,Hon. Lani Ramon,Historian Penn T. Larena and Atty Manuel Rotea Arbon ( Photo by : Dumaguete City Information Office)

( Photo by : Dumaguete City Information Office) City Government Officials and Employees 

The marking of the thirty-four sites of the Philippine route of the Magellan-Elcano expedition is in solidarity with the international project of tracing the route of the unprecedented achievement of humanity and science which proved that the world was indeed round.

 

Between 16 March and 28 October 2021, thirty-four historical markers (with reliefs) will be unveiled in the unveiled in the Visayas, Palawan, and Mindanao.

Mayor Felipe Antonio B. Remollo and The Historical Marker ( Photo by : Dumaguete City Information Office) 

Panilongon was a place name recorded by the survivors of the Magellan-Elcano expedition, particularly the chronicler of Antonio Pigafetta and pilot Francisco Albo. Both of them were certain: Panilongon was near the islands of Bohol and Cebu. Albo said it was located across the southernmost cape of the island of Cebu, which is the town of Santander today. Opposite of Santander is no other than but the Negros island. Pigafetta and Albo described the inhabitants of Panilongon with a complexion as dark as the people of Ethiopia. (Negros was so named Negros, which in Spanish means ‘people with a dark complexion,’ about our Ati brethren of the island.)

  The use of Panilongon was lost through time, probably because it was renamed. It can also be the present-day Barangay Manolongon, in Sta Catalina, Negros Oriental, probably a large territory extending as far as Dumaguete in the ancient times, but this needs thorough historical research. Or most likely, the placename became extinct due to depopulation caused by reduction or the transfer of the natives from disparate places into a community center called población during the Spanish colonial rule. 

 

The contextual clues left to us by Pigafetta and Albo prompted the National Historical Commission of the Philippines to choose Negros as the approximate Panilongon from 500 years ago. On why Dumaguete, it is because it is the capital city of the side of the island that was historically relevant to the Magellan-Elcano expedition—the Province of Negros Oriental.

 

Gov. Roel Ragay Degamo,Mayor Ipe Remollo,National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Commissioner Dr. Earl Jude Cleope,and Atty Manuel Rotea Arbon City Legal Officer

Negrosanon Historian Penn Tulabing Larena and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles 

Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles 

Penn T. Larena and Dumaguete City DILG Christopher Pastor 

PTL,Provincial Tourism Officer Myla Mae Bromo-Abellana and Gen Rey Lyndon Lawas

Former Bais City Mayor Hector C. Villanueva and Historian Prof. Penn T. Larena

After passing by Panilongon, the rest of the expedition went to Kipit in Zamboanga del Norte, Mapun in Tawi-Tawi, Palawan, Tagusao, Balacbac, Cape Palawan, Sulu, Tagima [Basilan], Cawit, Subanin, Manalipa, Maguindanao [Cotabato], Benaian [Kamanga], Batulaki, Candighar [Balut], and finally Saragani, then on to the Moluccas.

 

But for now, there’s the fact of the Quincentennial of that fateful voyage and the commemorating we are doing in this slice of 2021. This year, the country commemorates the 500th anniversary of the victory at Mactan, the Philippine part in the first circumnavigation of the world, and other related events — collectively known as the 2021 Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines, mandated by Executive Order №55, s. 2018, which created the National Quincentennial Committee [NQC] for this purpose.

Penn T. Larena and Provincial Tourism Officer Myla Mae Bromo-Abellana

Penn T. Larena  and  Spanish Girl Vicky P. Kitane

During the event, everybody was wearing their Filipiniana /Barong , Face mask , physical distancing and was amazed by the performance of the YATA and NORSU Theatre Guild.

 

 

The Unveiling of the Historical Marker of Panilongan (Negros) led by Governor Roel Ragay Degamo,Hon. Karlo B. Nograles Cabinet Secretary, Undersecretary Ramon L.Cualoping Director -General ,Philippine Information Agency,Hon Congressman Manuel Sagarbarria,Undersecretary Marvin R. Gatpayat Presidential Communition Operations Office,Atty Lessandro Maraon office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas,National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) Commissioner Dr. Earl Jude Cleope and Host city Mayor Felipe Antonio B. Remollo.

 

Thank you so much to the National Government,LGU Dumaguete and the Private Sector collaboration to make the event successful.Congrats to Jacqueline Veloso Antonio City Tourism Officer for a unique program that tells a story of the rich Filipino Culture and Heritage . 

PTL AND Hon Maisa Sagarbarria

PTL with Bais Radio Program Host Junjun Reyes Ablir 

Karen Villanueva ,Hector Villanueva and Tanjay City Knights of Rizal Deputy Chapter Commander Balbino “Ka Bino” Guerrero

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SR. EMELITA ALVAREZ, SPC, Mayor Ipe Remollo, SR. JOSELINE LASALA, SPC and SR. MARY MAYNARD PAGLINAWAN, SPC

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