2015, January 31. Municipality of Laua-an, Antique Centenary
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Municipality of Laua-an, Antique - 100th Anniversary
Laua-an is a fourth class municipality in the province of Antique.
The town is celebrating its centennial foundation on January
2015. Weeklong celebration features Pahinis Festival Mardi Gras;
LGU, professionals, senior citizens and barangay night;Bugal Kang
Laua-an (Pride of Laua-an) Awards Night; and Search for Hara de
Pahinis(Pahinis Queen)Beauty Pageant and Coronation Night. The
winner of this pageant will have a chance to represent the
municipality during the Search for Lin-ay kang Antique (Miss
Antique) during the Binirayan Festival in the capital town of San
Jose de Buenavista every last week of December. Other events
included boat racing along the Sulu Sea, and Aring Beach Festival at
the last night of the celebration in Barangay Cadajug. The current
Mayor is Capt. Francisco G. Baladjay, a young mariner with Degree in
Marine Transportation, an active public servant and a promising
bachelor.
Laua-an celebrates its Pahinis Festival every January. The Pahinis
Festival was awarded as one of the best tourism events in the
Philippines in 2008. Pahinis
Festival is being celebrated annually to feature the muscovado sugar
industry of the town, the technology of which dates back to the
Spanish era. "Pahinis" means
to clean and prepare the tools for sugarcane milling which
corresponds to a celebration to thank God for a fine harvest of
sugarcane. Laua-an has the
most number of sugarcane mills in the whole province of Antique. The
town has the potential for large scale production of muscovado for
local consumption and for export in other provinces and outside the
country. Some sugarcane mills in the town also has some refined way
of milling muscovado sugar through technology transfer from foreign
aid such that residue-free muscovado sugar is now produced that can
reach markets in Manila, Boracay, Cebu and other areas in the
Visayas, Luzon and even Mindanao.
The town boasts of several unexploited natural beauty which has a
potential for tourism in the future. It has large rivers with clean
waters, streams, verdant plains, mountains and hills, as well as
lush forests teeming with wild life. Estaca Hill is found in the
Poblacion and provides a strategic place to view the Poblacion, the
Sulu Sea and its environs. The coastline is fine gray sand with
pebbles and stones ideal for swimming. The deep sea waters of Sulu
Sea is abundant with fish and marine life like sardines,tuna,
squids, mackerel, crabs and other seafoods which is a source of
living for most residents. The town is primarily agricultural with
rice, sugarcane and corn as primary crops. Monggo beans, peanuts and
vegetables are also grown in limited areas of the land.
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