Have
you ever gone to a place where everything you want is already there, in terms
of beautiful beaches, beautiful sceneries or let just say a little/mini Palawan?
If not, let us go! Let me tour you in our place but before that let me
introduce it first.
Philippines has 7,017 islands divided into 3 major parts
namely Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Mindanao is popularly known as the” land
of promise”. Looking at the map, our place is nowhere to be found because it is
a small island but our place is so wonderful
and unique. Let me start introducing our
place in this way.
Long, long time ago, there were two camps in an unknown place. The two camps were rivals. Both camps
had their child a boy and girl named Prince Gat and Princess Dina. They fell in
love with each other but because their families were rivals there love became forbidden. There love was very
powerful to the extent of fighting for it until the end. And the place where
they lived was called Dinagat.
Dinagat province was long before part of Surigao Del
Norte, but Dec. 2, 2006 with the R.A
No. 9355 it became a province. Unfortunately, last Feb. 11, 2011, the Supreme
Court of the Philippine declared that the making of Dinagat as a province is
null and void for the reason that Dinagat did not meet the requirement to make
a local government unit. However on March 30 of the same year the Supreme Court
reversed their decision and upheld the constitutionality of R.A No. 9355 and
the creation of Dinagat islands as a province.
Dinagat came from the word “dinagatan” which means “ what
you’ve got in fishing?”. It is an island surrounded by water and composed of 7
municipalities namely Basilisa, Dinagat, Libjo, Tubajon, Cagdianao, Loreto and
San Jose. It is located near the Leyte gulf and at the south portion of Surigao
del norte. It takes 2 hours from Surigao City to Dinagat province riding a pump
boat. Its location being away from a city gives so many advantages to those
people who lived there in
preserving their culture and their natural way of living. The people of Dinagat are called Dinagatnon. Their common dialects
are Surigaonon, bisaya, and Cebuano.
Sundayo beach is
located at the municipality of Basilisa. Sundayo originated from the word “sundalo” which is translated in English as “army”. It is called Sundayo
because there is a rock formation there that looks like the helmet of an army. We
have this lake Bababu this condition of this lake is called “meramictic” a type of water body where fresh and
marine water do not mix.
Next is the natural bonsai forest and
bat sanctuary.
Nature has always the best scenario to show
but humans also do have their man-made beautiful sceneries. Let’s check this
out. The Shrine and white castle located at the municipality of San Jose.
Dinagat
has also their annual competition for their festival known” Bugkusan” which
means unity. The festival is done to build unity between the 7 municipalities
of Dinagat Islands.
Now how can you
ignore the beauty of Dinagat province starting from the natural to man-made
beautiful creations? I think there is no way
to ignore all of these, the only way you have to do is to grab your family and
friends and see what is inside the mystical province of Dinagat.
I am residing at the municipality of Basilisa saying: WHAT YOU HAVE READ IS JUST A GLIMPSE OF DINAGAT
ISLANDS’ IRRESISTIBLE CHARM.
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