Amlan
is a leisurely 15-minute cruise from Dumaguete City, the capital
city of the province of Negros Oriental.
BRIEF PROFILE
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Land Area: |
111.85 km² |
Population: |
22,206 |
Barangays: |
8 |
A Brief History___________________________
Nineteenth-century chronicler Licinio Ruiz mentions "Amblan",
a settlement said to have been named after a superior kind of
guava. The town was made a parish independent of Tanjay in 1848,
was renamed New Ayuquitan in 1912, became Amlan after World War
II.
The People______________________________
Majority of the people in the town speak the Cebuano dialect.
Commerce and Industry_____________________
Amlan's economy is anchored on fishing, copra and sugarcane,
and its bustling Tandayag wharf, which is the seaport-of-call
for Tañon Strait crossers from the province of Cebu.
The province's fuel and LPG supply is stored in depots nearby.
Cottage industries produce mats, baskets, bamboo furniture, and
buri-craft.
Getting There and Away_____________________
Buses and jeepneys, from neighbouring cities and towns, pass through
Amlan several times daily.
Fastcrafts from Liloan town of the island province of Cebu depart
for Amlan daily.
Other Information__________________________
Its Church of St. Andrew the Apostle, completed in 1853, and
said to have take 50 years to built, is the centerpiece of the
town's tourism picture while providing photo-opportunists with
a colonial period backdrop.
The ruins of watchtowers against the Moro depradations of old
can still be seen in Buswang and near the mouth of the Amlan River;
and two others near the school building of Ayuquitan and the barrio
of Calo.
Amlan's unique crowd-drawer is the Budyas Festival which begins
on the Tandayag pier with a traditional ritual blessing of fishing
implements and the elaborately-decorated fleet which then ferries
the patron's image in a fluvial procession to the chapel in Tandayag
North.
For nature attractions, there is the serene Tambojangin River
for freshwater swims and the splashy three-tiered Naibid Falls
in Jantianon.