Toledo City (Hinulawan)secret beauty of the City

Toledo City, formerly known as Pueblo Hinulawan, is a 2nd class city in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 152,960 people.

On June 19, 1960, Toledo attained the status of a chartered city by virtue of Republic Act No. 2688, authored by the late Congressman Manuel A. Zosa representative of the Sixth District of Cebu.
oledo City is administratively subdivided into 38 barangays.

* Awihao
* Bagakay
* Bato
* Biga
* Bulongan
* Bunga
* Cabitoonan
* Calongcalong
* Cambang-ug
* Camp 8
* Canlumampao
* Cantabaco
* Capitan Claudio



* Carmen
* Daanglungsod
* Don Andres Soriano(Lutopan)
* Dumlog
* Ibo
* Ilihan
* Landahan
* Loay
* Luray II
* Juan Climaco, Sr. (Magdugo)
* Gen. Climaco (Malubog)
* Matab-ang
* Media Once



* Pangamihan
* Poblacion
* Poog
* Putingbato
* Sagay
* Sam-ang
* Sangi
* Santo Niño (Mainggit)
* Subayon
* Talavera
* Tungkay
* Tubod

Toledo lies on Tanon Strait across from Negros Island and the city of San Carlos, Negros Occidental. Toledo City is home to the Philippines' largest copper mine, owned by Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation; concentrates from the mine are shipped from the port of Sangi near Toledo. Low-quality coal has also been mined in the area, but little coal is mined today. Important local crops include maize (corn) and coconuts. Toledo is connected to Cebu City, the provincial capital and second largest Philippine metropolitan area, by two stretches offroad that crossing the rugged spine of the island: the Naga-Uling Road and the alternate Manipis Road. A ferry runs between San Carlos and Toledo. During harvest season, migrant sugar workers from Cebu Island travel from Toledo to San Carlos to work in the sugar fields of Negros.



A small seaport provides Toledo with commercial inter-island service. Like many Philippine chartered cities, the total area of the city (174 sq km/67 sq mi) includes a portion of farmland. Between 1980 and 1990 the population grew by 31 percent, more than the national growth rate of 26 percent. The city was chartered in 1960. Population (1995) 121,469.

History

The Founders of Hinulawan (1861 - 1869)

Toledo City came from Old Hinulawan and New Hinulawan. Old Hinulawan, presently called Daanglungsod, was founded by Mariano Libre, Fulgencio Lebumfacil, Areston Macapaz, Jestoni Estrada, Adriano Blanco, and Tranquilino Blanco. New Hinulawan, presently called Toledo (on the present site), was founded by Fermin Poloyapoy, Máximo Macapobre, Jacinto Lopez, Servando de Jesus, Juan Libre, Agapito Nieves,and Francisco Blanco
Old Hinulawan (1861)

The town of Hinulawan of 1861 was a settlement of more than fifty families. Its abundant seas and river also called Hinulawan was a typical pueblo situated along the shore of Tañon Strait. The town is southwest of Hinulawan river. It had a stone-walled church and convent, a school, and a paseo (public park). It had an ambulant marketplace from neighboring barangays, muslim seafarers and Chinese merchants coming across the seas who came and traded with the town.

The town was bounded on the south by thick mangroves and nipa swamps extending to at least a kilometer, and fertile farmlands and coconut trees beyond as far as Ibo river. On the north and northwest by the Tañon Strait; on the south and southwest by uplands and hills covered by thick forests as far as Tubod; on the northeast is the Hinulawan river.

Even before it became a town in 1861, Hinulawan was already a flourishing trade center on the west coast of Cebu Province. It was where people from other areas came to meet, bringing with them their farm products and articles of trade. They traded with locals and foreigners (Moslem and Chinese traders). Some of these foreigners settled and intermarried with the locals, which contributed to the growth of Hinulawan from a mere sitio of Balamban into a progressive town.

The founders of Hinulawan as a town together with the church, led by the parish priest Father Servando Seone, all worked for public welfare. It was during their term of office that the town saw its golden age. Stonewalls were built along the riverbanks as flood control. Wooden piers were built to accommodate more foreign trading boats. A convent and church were erected for their beloved pation saint Saint John of Sahagun in traditional Spanish architecture. Adjoining swamps were partly reclaimed. Better and bigger schools for the children were built. Industries such as fishing, pottery making, and other cottage industries flourished yielding more prosperity and wealth to the town.
New Hinulawan (1863-1869)

The following days after the earthquake, the refugees were helped by the residents of Tubod, made clearings in the nearby virgin forest and plateaus among which was a cemetery where they buried their dead. They rebuilt their cogon-roofed houses on these clearings. Others built their homes at the foot of the Tubod highlands. Others decided to migrate to neighboring sitios of Da-o, Bulok-bulok, to as far as Landahan and Sam-ang. And others became pioneers in the opening of new settlements like Cabitonan and Batohanon. Other refugees and their descendants decided to go back to the old site of Old Hinulawan after many years when its depressed lowelands had gradually regained its original level. This new barangay (district) is currently named Daanglungsod. Majority chose to remain in this new site and for many years strived hard to regain the prosperity they once had in the ruined town of Old Hinulawan.

Later, to protect New Hinulawan from pirate attacks which was frequent in the towns that line the Tañon Strait, the town built a bulwark (a defense grid). This bulwark was made of chopped and piled up stone blocks. This bulwark was destroyed by age and its remnants were buried in the sand during the construction of the old municipal, which was in turn destroyed to the Philippine Commonwealth troops and Cebuano guerrillas during World War II.

As part of the Independence day Celebration, Toledo City will celebrate its annual fiesta called HINULAWAN FESTIVAL every 12 of June. One of the events for the upcoming fiesta and its so memorable event of the toledanos and visitors.