Siniloan,Laguna
The town of
SiniloanLaguna is a second class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines.
According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 35,363 people, the people
call themselves as Siniloeño/a or Siniloense in Filipino.
Sinilóan lies between
the plains of the Sierra Madre Mountains and the Laguna de Bay,
bounded between the municipality of Mabitac on the west, Pañguil on the east,
Real, Quezon on the North and Laguna de Bay on the South. Famy which was formerly
a small barrio of Siniloan and known as Barrio Calumpáng was separated from
Siniloan in 1910, while the town Mabitac, also formerly a barrio of Siniloan,
was separated from the town in 1613. A river named Río Romelo runs through the
center of the town and is used for fishing ground and irrigation purposes. The
town proper or población is about 84 kilometers (52 mi) from Manila,
passing Manila East Road or Marcos Highway, and about 113 kilometers
(70 mi) via the South Luzon Expressway passing the town of Santa Cruz, the capital of the
province.Siniloan is
politically subdivided into 20 barangays Of these, 13 are classified as urban
and 7 are classified as rural.
The
name Siniloan is also believed to have been taken from a legendary story about
Luis and Ana, a married couple who chased a wild boar from a place called
Luisiana. They ran after that big boar from Luisiana to Cavinti (kapit sa
Binti). The people along the way who saw Luis and Ana chasing the boar took
pity on them and helped them to catch it. The people chased the boar through
the towns of Lumban, Kalayaan, Loñgos, Paete, Pakil, and Pañguil until they
finally caught the boar in this town by means of the lassoed captivity or
Siniloan.
The Siniloan,
Laguna town have a traditional festival and the Siniloeño/a
or Siniloense called it Guiling Guiling festival, that came from the
accidentally misunderstanding of the Filipino and the Spanish, during the colonization of Spanish some female inhabitants of the place were
milling their palay in their fields. While doing this, some Spaniards came and
asked them, "Como se llama esta pueblo?" The natives, not knowing
Spanish thought that they were asked what they were doing and one of them
answered, "Camí po ay gumiguiling". The Spaniards repeated,
"Guiling-Guiling", to which the natives nodded. Some this place known
as "Guiling-Guiling” starting that day the Siniloeño/a celebrate the
Guiling Guiling Festival yearly.
The
Siniloan town have its own balbal languages, like “chong” or Tiyo, “yayang” or
Lola, “datung” or Pera, they also called the Police as “parak”. Even though
others don’t know the meaning of this word the Siniloeño/a can understand this,
It’s like similar in meaning but different in word, so that the citizen of
Siniloan Laguna use it and talk to each other by using the same word or balbal
languages and they understand each other easily and comfortable.
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