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Nabua (Rinconada Bikol: ''Banwāan ka Nabua''; English: ''Municipality of Nabua''; Filipino: ''Bayan ng Nabua'') is a first class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines.〔 According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 80,111 people.〔 Nabua is the mother town of Iriga City, Buhi, Bato, Balatan, Bula and Baao in Camarines Sur. Nabua has five districts: Antacudos, Binoyoan, Caobnan, Lupa and Sabang. Nabua is home of the modern kuntaw, and jota rojana.〔 〕 ==History== The Municipality of Nabua traces the historical origin of its name way back during the Spanish Colonization. It was said that in 1571, an Augustinian Friar named Fray Alonzo Gimenez reached one of the rancherias called Lupa which was then under Datu Panga from Borneo. The good friar found persons inside the said rancheria cutting coconuts. He was offered to partake the inside shoot of coconut which the natives called “BOA”. Immediately, the good friar tagged the place as “NABUA” pronounced with his Spanish Accent. From that time onwards this place become popularly known as NABUA. In another version, a historian named Fray Felix Huerta claimed that the name came from the story that the original sitio of the town is in the shape of the “BOA”, young embryo of the coconut which was surrounded by five rancherias named Lupa, Antacodos, Sabang, Caobnan and Binoyoan. Other believe otherwise and said it was centrally located in the middle of said rancherias thus closely resembling a delicious “BOA” which children loved to eat. For a time, the town was called “NABOBOWA” but years of long usage shortened and corrupted it to the present name of NABUA. In 1578, a group of Franciscan missionaries headed by Fray Pablo de Jesus and Fray Bartolome Ruiz put up a church in a place known as Antacodos and there they placed a big cross. These missionaries soon merged the villages of Lupa, Antacodos, Sabang and Binoyoan into one place, which at present is known as the town of Nabua. The name ''Nabua'' was originally a longer one, ''Naboboa'', from ''boa'', the word for a young coconut embryo. In a research mission to Spain funded by the municipality, it was learned that Nabua was officially established as a municipality on July 25, 1569. Based on the 1734 Murillo-Velarde map, one of the earliest cartographical maps of the Philippine archipelago, the town is identified as NAVA - a Spanish name indicating a "level piece of ground". This is probably the apt description of the place at that time, and until the present time, a flat terrain stretching from the shores of the lakes of Bato and Baao and nestled in the plains between Mt. Iriga and the mountains of Bula (which is on the other side of the map) and the then Pantao, as shown in the map. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nabua, Camarines Sur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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