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16-506: The name of Guinayangan comes from the word "gayang", a poison extracted from a plant by the locals. It was used by the natives to infuse it in their spears and arrows which they used to repel the Moro invasions. The gayang became an important thing among the natives who lived peacefully as the Moros were repelled in every attack they made. The natives who were infusing gayang to the arrows were spotted by

32-428: A newly built church and an ayuntamiento (town hall) were situated. This allowed the government to defend, control and Christianize the indigenous population, to conduct population counts , and to collect taxes . The población is considered the commercial and industrial center of the city or municipality. Most citizens of a city or municipality residing in the outlying barangays and satellite sitios flock to

48-543: Is a forested area with sixty percent of its territory inhabited by dipterocarp trees, including molave , kamagong , guijo, red lauan , and white lauan , yakal and manggachapui . It is home to a diverse bird species, such as the Philippine dwarf kingfisher , rufous hornbill , northern sooty woodpecker , black-naped oriole , Philippine coucal , jungle crow , coleto , black-winged kite and Philippine collared dove . It also supports some large mammals, including

64-750: Is composed primarily of clay loam . The park is located about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) west of the Guinayangan Poblacion and some 130 kilometres (81 mi) east of the provincial capital city of Lucena . It is surrounded by private agricultural lands and coconut plantations in Ermita, San Roque, Dungawan and Sisi. It is accessible via the provincial road to Guinayangan from the Pan-Philippine Highway (AH26) in Calauag, thence by foot through numerous trails from barangays Sisi and Calimpak. The park

80-589: Is the only source of potable water for domestic consumption of the more than 40,000 residents of Guinayangan. The Maulawin Spring Protected Landscape covers an area of 149.01 hectares (368.2 acres) of lowland forest in the barangays of Himbubulo, San Pedro and Magsaysay in west-central Guinayangan. It sits on a hilly terrain in the eastern portion of the Tayabas Isthmus and the northeastern extreme of Bondoc Peninsula near Guinayangan's border with

96-483: The Maulawin Spring Protected Landscape and the critically endangered Inagta Lopez, a dialect of the critically endangered Inagta Alabat language , which has at most 30 speakers left in the world. Guinayangan was a former part of the town of Gumaca together with its neighbor town Lopez, Quezon from the oldest record it was first mentioned during colonial era. Guinayangan gained its territory with

112-480: The crab-eating macaque , Philippine deer , Philippine warty pig , Asian palm civet , as well several bats and snakes. Poblacion Poblacion (literally "town" or "settlement" in Spanish ; locally [pobläˈʃo̞n] ) is the common term used for the administrative center, central, downtown , old town or central business district area of a Philippine city or municipality , which may take up

128-419: The población (usually the areas surrounding the parish church) doubles as an old town district that features one or more of a few remaining Spanish-built structures in the country . There are also some cases of cities that have multiple poblaciónes , like Iloilo City , where each geographical district has its own, as they were former independent municipalities during the Spanish era . The cabecera (or

144-451: The población on market days (which is set by a local ordinance of the local government ) because most local products and goods from the barrios are brought to the public market located in the población . In this way their products could be sold faster by a wide range of buyers, though there are instances where some citizens would choose to go to another town's población because it is closer to their residences. In some cities and towns,

160-449: The Spanish missionaries who wished to spread religious faith in the area. The missionaries ask for the "name of the place" in Spanish dialect. Due to the language barrier, the natives misinterpreted the question for "What are you doing" and answered "Ginayangan" or "We applied gayang". Ever since the place was known and pronounced "Ginyangan" omitting the "a" sound. The municipality is home to

176-490: The area of a single barangay or multiple barangays. It is sometimes shortened to Pob. During the Spanish rule , the colonial government founded hundreds of towns and villages across the archipelago modeled on towns and villages in Spain . The authorities often adopted a policy of Reducción , for the resettlement of inhabitants in far-flung scattered barangays to move into a centralized cabecera (town/district capital) where

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192-423: The month of June comes, the people of Guinayangan, Quezon prepare for the annual celebration of Gayang Festival, wherein the coconut tree and the banana is the main attraction of the festivities. The festival is highlighted by a street dancing competition participated by the residents of different barangays, as well as by elementary and high school students. In the later part of 2000, the very first Seafoods Festival

208-799: The municipalities of Calauag and Lopez . The park is traversed by several rivers and creeks, some of which dry up during the summer months and which empty into the Catabangan Bay and Ragay Gulf , including the Maulawin River, Hiwasayan River, Tubog Creek and Prenza River. These rivers supply water for the Guinayangan Water District. The topography of the park is characterized as a complex of land configuration ranging from slightly level, sloping to rolling, and steep to hilly and rugged mountains. It has an elevation of between 250 metres (820 ft) and 500 metres (1,600 ft) above sea level and

224-414: The transfer of the barrio Aloneros from Tagkawayan by virtue of Executive Order No. 78 , signed by President Manuel Roxas on August 12, 1947. The annexation became effective on January 1, 1948. Guinayangan is politically subdivided into 54 barangays . Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios . Poverty incidence of Guinayangan Source: Philippine Statistics Authority When

240-614: The watershed in the municipality of Guinayangan known as the Maulawin Spring Watershed Forest Reserve declared through Proclamation No. 365 by President Manuel Luis Quezon . It had an initial area of 60 hectares (150 acres). In 2000, the forest reserve was enlarged and was redesignated as a protected landscape under the National Integrated Protected Areas System by virtue of Proclamation No. 295 issued by President Joseph Estrada . It

256-595: Was held in the town. However, it was replaced by Gayang Festival in the succeeding years to give importance to the town's history. Maulawin Spring Protected Landscape The Maulawin Spring Protected Landscape is a protected landscape area of forested hills and several rivers and streams located in the province of Quezon on southern Luzon island in the Philippines . It was originally created in 1939 to protect

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