Samboan, Philippines

History

Samboan is popularly known as an abbreviation of the word sinamboang as a form of fishing during the Spanish time.

However, Samboan in our historical papers is probably known to be Canamucan which is a territory under the Spanish encomienda system of the Spanish administration during their tenure and conquest. As time goes by, Canamucan becomes Samboan in the current usage. The 1818 census showed that the tributes counted 2,496 native families and 69 Spanish-Filipino families.

Samboan is a small town on a hill. But it used to be a much bigger town, with Alegria under its territorial jurisdiction. In fact, the people of Alegria were made to render forced labor for the construction of the Samboan church. The 1818 census showed 2,496 native families and 69 Spanish-Filipino families who came from Spain.

It was only sometime during the middle of the 1880s that those two towns were separated from Samboan (the towns of Ginatilan and Malabuyoc, which now lie in between, were created after the separation).

From the History section of Samboan on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.