The Villages of Kalamansig

In 1961, the municipality of Kalamansig was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 459. In 2010, the Provincial Planning Development Office released a comprehensive profile of Sultan Kudarat. I wanted to know what happened to the villages of Kalamansig along the years, so I compared the lists in the two documents.

According to the executive order issued in 1961, Kalamansig was to comprise twenty-eight barrios and sitios, twenty from the municipality of Lebak and eight from the municipality of Palimbang. It’s not clear from the law which of the territories were barrios and which were sitios. According to the 2010 report, Palimbang comprise fifteen barangays today. Note that barrios are called barangays today. Barrios and barangays are essentially the same—basic unit of government in the Philippines. Sitios are settlements that are usually far from the center of the barrio/barangay, but sitios are not independent and are still governed by the barrio/barangay.

The twenty barrios and sitios of Kalamansig that were taken from Lebak were Kalamansig, Lun, Pitas, Dansalang, Pigtitiguinas, Madu, Port Lebak, Linek, Santa Clara Village, Sibayor, Nalilidan, Bosawan, Calubcub, Camp III, Posal, Limbato, Limutan, Simsiman, Cadiz, and Tipudus. The eight barrios and sitios from Palimbang were Sangay, Mat, Danawan, Pasil, Babancao, Basiawang, Narra, and North Kulaman.

The fifteen barangays of Kalamansig today are Cadiz, Datu Ito Andong, Datu Wasay, Dumangas Nuevo, Hinalaan, Limulan, Nalilidan, Obial, Pag-asa, Paril, Poblacion, Sabanal, Sangay, Santa Clara, and Santa Maria.

Of the original villages in 1961, five survived until 2010: Poblacion/Kalamansig, Cadiz, Limulan (Limutan in the 1961 law), Nalilidan, and Sangay. It’s possible that the Pasil in the 1961 law and the Paril in the 2010 report are the same place, but in the absence of evidence to the contrary, I’m considering them as two separate places.

What happened to the twenty-three other barrios and sitios of Kalamansig? They must have been renamed, annexed to Senator Ninoy Aquino when the municipality was created in 1989, or annexed to the ten barangays of Kalamansig that were created after 1961: Datu Ito Andong, Datu Wasay, Dumangas Nuevo, Hinalaan, Obial, Pag-asa, Paril, Sabanal, Santa Clara, and Santa Maria. North Kulaman, annexed from Palimbang to Kalamansig in 1959, was probably the Kulaman that was annexed from Kalamansig to Senator Ninoy Aquino in 1989.