BARANGAY LIMAO: DIVULGING ITS BEAUTY

THAT LIES WITHIN ITS HISTORY

In Partial Fulfillment of the

Requirements for RPH 100

Presented To
Mr. Marlou Jade Eliab
RPH Professor

Presented By
Claire Danes C. Robledo
BSN – 1H
 INTRODUCTION

Filipinos basically are known to have various ethnolinguistic groups that are
native to its country. It was stated that there are more than 175 ethnolinguistic groups
where each has its own unique language, identity, culture and history that sum up the
Filipino culture and community as a whole; a community that is either small or large
social unit that shares something in common, such as norms, religion, values. Thus, Hays
(2008) linked the characteristic of the main bonding forces in Filipino society to family
and the Catholic Church, where Filipinos are known to be religious.

In relation to the division of its ethnolinguistic groups, the countryside is divided

into barangay (rural communities) that have their own leaders, the Barangay
Captain/Chairman, which have defined powers in order to enhance their existence as an
autonomous part of the municipality. Beginning with the Presidential Decree no. 86,
issued December 31, 1972, the organization of local units of government took a new
direction, as citizen assemblies or barangays were created where it serves as the primary
planning and implementing unit of government policies, plans, programs, projects and
activities in the community and as the forum wherein the collective and the collective
views of the people may be expressed, crystallized and given due course and when
contending claims may be amicably settled (Kendall, 1976). Thus, they have executive,
legislative and ad judicatory powers within the purview of the Local Government Code
of the Philippines.

On the land of Mindanao, part of the Metropolitan Davao area and is two
kilometers away from Davao City, a city was created through Republic Act No. 8471 in
January 30, 1998, known as Island Garden City of Samal or sometimes called IGaCOS,
which is a 4th class city in the province of Davao del Norte, Philippines. It has been
recognized to have one of the best beaches in the Philippines. Its beautiful mountain
landscape, crystal clear waters, and fine white sand are a perfect combination for people
who want to unwind and enjoy pure bliss, and thus consist of barangays that are
differently unique yet related as a whole to the island.

There is a group of people living one of the barangays in Samal Island who
consider a site in their village as sacred ground. These are the Moncadistas or
Moncadians who reside for free in the site. It is a land they communally own, adjacent to
their holy place where the White House of Moncado stands where it serves as their house
of worship, “the reincarnation of Diyos Amahan [God the Father]” (Manforte, 2017). Not
much was known about this town until Hilario Moncado established the religious sect
called the Filipino Crusaders World Army (FCWA).
 This was anchored to Camp 23, Barangay Limao which is situated at
approximately 7.0872, 125.6752, in the island of Samal wherein elevation at these
coordinates is estimated at 70.3 meters or 230.6 feet above mean sea level. Additionally,
Limao was known as the ‘Home of the Vegetarian Moncadians’ where it is particularly
noted for eating only raw and uncooked food, no fish and no meat. In the Limao
settlement, followers were observed to have no stoves for cooking, although some
domiciles had some kind of dirty kitchen for boiling water.

However, past years of the barangay was disregarded by many. Its beauty was
invisible