Wao Wonderland

Wao’s History (As told by former Mayor Elvino C. Balicao, Sr.) ACCORDING TO FEW LIVING PIONEER SETTLERS WHO LIVED IN WAO UNTIL TODAY, THERE WERE 60 PEOPLE OF VARIOUS ETHNICITIES, FROM THE SOUTH AND NORTH COTABATO, WHO WERE GATHERED IN MARAMAG, BUKIDNON AND SACRIFICED THEMSELVES BY HIKING FROM MARAMAG TO THE PLACE NOW CALLED “WAO” IN ORDER TO RESETTLE ON JANUARY 19, 1954, UNDER THE LASEDECO PROG OF LATE PRESIDENT RAMON MAGSAYSAY. THOSE SETTLERS WERE WELCOMED BY THE NATIVE MUSLIMS OF WAO, LED BY SULTAN MAMACO SARIPADA, THE FIRST APPOINTIVE AND ELECTIVE MAYOR OF WAO, TOGETHER WITH DATU TAO PAGUL, DATU MAKI SARIPADA, DATU POLIS SARIPADA, OGA SARIPADA, MAMORIBID ONTAWAR, MAUNA PAGUL, MAKAUGAY AND OTHER MUSLIM BRETHREN. AFTER 7 YEARS, WAO WAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED AS MUNICIPALITY OF THE REP. OF THE PHILS. ON FEBRUARY 22, 1961, E. O. NO. 418. THAT HISTORIC EVENT ON JANUARY 19, 1954, WITNESSED BY COL. LABAUN, CHIEF OF POLICE OF MARAMAG, BUKIDNON MARKED THE BEGINNING OF CAMARADERIE AMONG VARIOUS TRIBES/ETHNIC GROUPS IN TOWN (ILOKANOS, ILONGGOS, CEBUANOS, BOHOLANOS, MARANAOS, TAUSUGS, WARAYS, IBATANS, TAGALOGS, BATANGUENOS, AND FEW OTHER ETHNICS), LIVING TOGETHER HARMONIOUSLY AMONG OTHERS, WHICH ARE GENERALLY CATEGORIZED AS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS. IN FACT, ONE AMONG THOSE FIRST BATCH OF SETTLERS BECAME A MUNICIPAL MAYOR OF WAO, HE IS HON. ELVINO C. BALICAO, SR. GEOGRAPHICALLY, WAO SPANS AN AREA OF 35,459.60 HECTARES OF HILLY, ROLLING AND STEEP LANDS, ONE AMONG THE 40 LGUs OF LANAO DEL SUR PROVINCE IN ARMM. IT IS A LANDLOCKED MUNICIPALITY AND LOCATED AT THE CROSSROADS OF BUKIDNON AND COTABATO PROVINCES. APPROXIMATELY, IT IS 18 KM FROM BUKIDNON, 220 KM FROM CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, 200 KM FROM DAVAO CITY, 325 KM FROM MARAWI CITY, THE CAPITAL OF THE PROVINCE. WAO HAS 26 BARANGAYS, 4 OF WHICH ARE URBAN WHILE THE REMAINING 22 ARE CONSIDERED RURAL AREAS

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