Javier Leyte Tour

The municipality of Javier, Leyte was formerly called barrio “Bugho” of the municipality of Abuyog, Leyte. Bugho  is a contraction of the dialect term “Binogho” (from the Waray word binugho meaning “a small forest clearing”). Settlers at about the turn of the century cultivated this small patch of land. Among the earliest known settlers was Manuel Cultura, a native of Burauen, Leyte who is believed to have led his friends and relatives to farm the fertile soil of the area, then a virgin forest. Later, as the settlement grew, it became a sitio of barrio Pinocawan, and established barrio since the Spanish occupation. Sometime in 1914, Daniel Falcon Javier of Consolacion, Sogod, Southern Leyte and a former teacher and principal of Cebu Normal School of Cebu City in the early 1900s came to explore the surrounding area of the new settlement. At that time he just came from Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte where he started extensive farming activities since 1908 after his resignation as principal at the Cebu Normal School. Source: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...