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Panitian is a barangay in the municipality of Quezon of the province of Palawan, established through Republic Act (R.A.) No. 2593 enacted on June 21, 1959.〔''Republic Act No. 2593 - An Act Creating Certain Barrios in the Province of Palawan'', http://laws.chanrobles.com/ph/ra/republicactno2593.html〕 Panitian was originally a sitio in Quezon, Palawan established by Zambal migrants coming from the northern municipalities of Zambales in 1956 〔http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambals, Sambals in Palawan〕 through the National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration (NARRA) or Republic Act 1160 of President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954.〔http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Magsaysay, Agrarian Reform〕 The enactment of R.A. 2593 made Panitian the largest barangay of Quezon, Palawan with the inclusion of other sitios under its jurisdiction such as Odiong, Malatgao, Tagpisa, Candis and Napwaran. Due to its enormous size, Panitian allowed Sitio Malatgao to separate and form another barangay before the Philippine barangay elections of 1982. Panitian is bordered on the west by Bgy. Malatgao, on the east by the town proper of Quezon, on the south by the municipality of Sofronio Española, and on the north by the South China Sea. Located on Panitian's northeasternmost point is the Tabon Cave complex, which is known as the Cradle of Philippine Civilization. Through NARRA or R.A. 1160, agricultural land distribution and resettlement was carried out by encouraging migration of settlers to open new lands for farming. In Southern Palawan, there was a total of 27 public land subdivisions consisting 20,855 lots of eight hectares per lot that was made available for new settlers (James 1979, p. 29).〔James, W. E. 1979. ''An Economic Analysis of Public Land Settlement Alternatives in the Philippines''. University of Hawaii. London: University Microfilms International ()〕 These homestead lands now comprised the municipality of Narra, Palawan, some barangays of Aborlan, and Barangays Panitian and Malatgao of the municipality of Quezon. Those who migrated to these resettlement areas were Ilocanos from Tayug, Pangasinan, Cagayan and Isabela; the Ilongos from Panay Island, Negros, and Cotabato; and the Zambals from the northern municipalities of Zambales, particularly Masinloc, Candelaria, and Santa Cruz. ==Pioneering stage== On April 5, 1956, the Zambal migrants, led by an enthusiastic snake hunter and a fiercely built man by the name of ''Patok'', reached Panitian as a jungle, located nine kilometers south of the town of Quezon. The jungle was a habitat of Palawan fruit bats, also known as megabats or "paniki", from which the new inhabitants derived its name. It was first called "Panikian", or land of megabats or "paniki", and later renamed as Panitian. Until the early 1990s, the population of Panitian are treated with a great spectacle starting fifteen to thirty minutes before dusk of thousands of flying megabats blackening the skies migrating towards ''Puting Bato'' (towards the direction of Sitio Nali). The Zambals were given homestead land south of the Municipality of Quezon to be developed for agriculture or into rice farmlands. Eighty to ninety percent of the new settlers received assistance from the government in the form of housing, moving and transportation, food rations for about fifteen months, work animal, farm implements, land clearing and planting materials (James, p. 97). Initially, the Zambals occupied the flat lands in Sitios Sarangsang, Tapsan, Nali and the barangay proper alongside the Panitian River. The Zambals later on came in contact with the friendly Palawans (natives of Palawan) in Sitio Gugnan in 1960s headed by its village chieftain by the name of ''Ablo''. Some of the Zambals purchased lands from the Palawans who had informal claims on some of the arable properties in Gugnan. Others however directly filed land ownership application at the Bureau of Lands District Office in Puerto Princesa City. With the news of land ownership reaching home in Zambales, new waves of Zambal migrants followed. Many of them were able to become landowners, a title that had eluded them in Zambales, acquiring their own farm lands in Sitios Tagpisa, Nali, Tagbanaba and Gugnan despite the absence of the government subsidies the original homesteaders received. More than thirty percent however returned to Zambales after finding Palawan a difficult place to live due to the absence of basic infrastructure, presence of malaria, and the lack of community services that they were accustomed to in the home province. Many Ilongo-speaking migrants joined the Zambals in Panitian starting in the 1970s through Sitio Odiong, an area accessible by boats. The Ilongo migrants were usually fishermen coming from other parts of Quezon, Palawan. Many Ilongos also migrated through Malatgao who then were able to acquire properties in outlying sitios of Panitian. 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「Panitian, Palawan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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