History of Ivisan: HISTORY OF IVISAN

HISTORY OF IVISAN

Long prior to the Spanish foray, this place was wilderness, so rounded with thick plant life and big trees. The people lived by groups at first, serene of about five or seven families. Later on, these groups founded a village. Due to the geographical situation of the town the chief livelihood of the people were mostly fishing and a little farming. Whenever people far from villages yearned for the fresh fish they always said “lets go the place where there is an abundance of “ibis” (refers to small fish). They usually come in groups stayed for weeks, salting and preserving the small fish that they could get. Later on, when the Spaniards came, they thought it wise to give a proper name to the village. The Provincial Governor appointed a committee. This in turn called a meeting of all the prominent men of the village purposely for the selection of an appropriate name for this pueblo. The people together with the Spanish Officials, aware of the fact that the place was famous for “Ibis” , unanimously deemed it right and proper to call it “Ibisan”. Officially however, the Spaniards called it “IVisan” because of their preferences of the letter “V” to “B”. Modern scholars nevertheless, under the influence of American Educators called “Iuisan” primarily for the sake of euphony and secondly for the reason that old roman writing they write “U” as “V” hence reading V as U as “IUISAN”.

Today Ivisan has many beautiful spot and resorts that you will see if you to go on the town of Ivisan.Have many beautiful spot like at Basio , cover of Ivisan. Basio in rich in White sand, there beach is so amazing. Like a crystal like water.See and experience the beauty of basio near at Ivisan.

The Municipality is divided into 15 barangays; 2 urban and 13 rural. Distances of barangays to Poblacion and topography are follows:

Barangay/ Classification	Distances to Poblacion	Topography
Urban
1. Poblacion Norte	Proper	Plain
2. Poblacion Sur	Proper	Plain
Rural
3. Agmalobo	1.5	Plainw/ part mountainous
4. Agustin Navarra	4.0	Plainw/ part mountainous
5. Balaring	8.0	Coastal
6. Basiao	9.0	Coastal
7. Cabugao	5.5	Coastal
8. Cudian	2.0	Hilly to Coastal
9. Ilaya-Ivisan	3.5	Plain w/ part mountainous
10. Maloloc Norte	2.0	Hilly to Mountainous
11. Malocloc Sur	5.0	Mountainous
12. Matnog	2.5	Hilly
13. Mianay	3.0	Plain to Hilly
14. Ondoy	2.0	Plain
15. Sta. Cruz	2.0	Hilly

Products of the Municipality

There are many products of Ivisan,like indigenous craft making(basket, furniture, novelty items), native Delicacies- fresh "Ubod" lumpia and pickles, "baye-baye" and Rafia fibers.In fishery, people in the coastal barangays use conventional method of fish drying and there is one ice plant and cold storage and 4 fish storage that support the fishing industry.There are at least 10 poultry farms that you can find within the municipality and there are one hatchery for chicken. Other people raise hogs, poultry and cattle in their backyard.They can make a flower or decorations by the use of shells or plastic.