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CarCanMadCarLan Topography
October 2, 2007 view of ccmcl from puyat
Known in the past for its vast timberlands and, for the present with its over 6,000 hectares of Government-irrigated lands, it has seawaters in the east, mountains in the west, north and south. The plains has navigable rivers known as Carac-an, Union, Cantilan, Consuelo, Benoni, Bon-ot, Adlayan, Lancogue and some s maller ones. The extent of creeks and wetlands or lowlands in its wide plains is indicative that marshlands and swamps were main landmarks and features of its old topography. The conversions and developments of th
e lowlands into rice paddies began in the 18th century when the friars were stationed therein. Those rivers and creeks which were developed into fishponds did not begin earlier than the first half of the 20th century.
In the hazy period of Cantilan's history in the 16th century, Parasao was described only to have consisted of a vast area of woodlands on the plains, hills and mountains. They were traversed by big rivers and creeks north of Tand ag, the set of catholic priory. West, Northwest, South and Southwest of Cantilan have the eye-limits of Diwata, Ilong-ilong, Sibyog, Mabaha and the Legaspi mountains with their ridges and ranges clear on the dry months.
source: CANTILAN in 1571-1899 by EVE, published by the Municipality of Cantilan
WHERE CarCanMadCarLan is…
WHERE CCMCL is..
North East of Mindanao is the province of Surigao del Sur. It occupies an area of 455,216 hectares. Approximately it has 4,552.16 square kilometers with a length of 175 kilometers facing Pacific Ocean, It lies within 125° 45' to 130° 30' E. Longitude and 10° 30' to 8° 00' Latitude. It is bounded on the North West by the provinces of Surigao del Norte, on the South West by Davao Oriental, on the East by the Pacific Ocean and on the West and South West by the Provinces of Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur.
…From the later part of the 1500s to 1919, the land area of the town Cantilan was roughly 130,000 hectares which is over one-fourth of the present area of the province of Surigao del Sur. This was the whole of Cantilan which is now known of the acronym of CARCANMACARLAN which is derived from the first three-syllables of thetowns of Carrascal, Cantilan, Madrid, Carmen and Lanuza.
The original acronym of the whole area was CARCANLAN which comprised of Carrascal, Cantilan and Lanuza. On December 10, 1918, Executive Order No. 52 of American Governor General Francis Burton Harrison which was signed by Charles Yeater, divided Cantilan into three parts. On February 2,1953, it became CARCANMADLAN when Madrid was created as a municipality and detached from the mother town by virtue of Executive Order by President Elpidio Quirino. When Brgy. Carmen of Lanuza was created as a town by Republic Act No.6367, on August 16,1971, the indigenous naming of the whole area that was once Cantilan finally became CARCANMADCARLAN in 1980.
source: CANTILAN in 1571-1899 by EVE, published by the Municipality of Cantilan
