Bolinao Texas

      

Bolinao
        : "Boli-bolinao and Anao", "Bulidnu and Malinao"

      

Originally, Bolinao was a settlement composed
        of a little over a hundred families under Captain Pedro Lombi, established
        in 1575 at a point called Binabalian, on the northern coast of Santiago
        Island. The rampant attacks and raids of Moro pirates urged Capitan Lombi
        to transfer the town-site to the mainland and accordingly, with the aid
        of Fr. Geronimo de Casro, he finally founded the town in 1596 near Libsong
        where a clear spring of about two meters in diameter kept lumping.

      

By this spring grew a "boli-bolinao" tree
        of the molave family with luxuriant foliage from which was derived the
        present name of the town. Under this tree the affairs of the town were
        administered while stone walls were piled nearby as corner-stone of the
        Roman Catholic Church which was finally completed in 1609, thirteen years
        after the transfer of the town site.

      

Up to now, records show no specific decree
        or law under which the town was created. Perhaps the natives had organized
        themselves for a common cause against Moro raids or by order of the "Adelantado"
        (title given to Spanish Governor General Legaspi) that the founding and/or
        transfer to the town site was undertaken.

      

Legends relate that during the first days
        of the Spanish era, a beautiful lass who answered to the call of "Anao"
        diminutive of Juana, lived in the present site of town. She used to bathed
        in the spring or leisured under the "boli-bolinao" tree for hours where
        she was first seen and wooed by a chieftain’s son living across the channel.
        An early marriage followed with the condition among others, that the seat
        of government of the chieftain be transferred to where Anao lived and
        there, to stay as rulers, hence the name of Bolinao (Boli-bolinao and
        Anao).

      

Some say (nevertheless believable) that
        the name of the chieftain’s son was Bolidnu (meaning round and robust)
        and the lass, Malinao (meaning clear as the Libsong spring), the combination
        of which became the name Bolinao. #

      

 

      

       
         

       

       

         

         

         

         

         

         

       

       

         

         

         

         

         

         

       

      

Status               (As of Year 2000)
Population	Population               Growth Rate	No.               Of Households	Income               Classification	Land               Area (Hectare)	No.             of Barangays
61,068	3.03	12,182	3rd               Class	26,605	30

      

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