Magallanes, Cavite Etymology

Magallanes began its history as a barrio called Panitan, then a part of the municipality of Maragondon. Panitan was derived from the Tagalog word panit (to remove the bark of a tree). Long before the coming of the Spaniards, there grew along the mountainside of this barrio a big area called Bitangcol, which provided a source of income for the people. The barks of the trees are removed (panitan) and used as containers for storing palay or unhusked rice. The fibers of the bark were removed and twined into durable ropes. Because of this unusual occupation of the people, the barrio came to be known as Panitan of Banitan.

The first inhabitants of Panitan were Isidro Baltao, Glicerio Manalo, Florentino Mojica, and Ignacio Arat. The time came when the people, tired of travelling the long distance to the poblacion of Maragondon, decided to seek the separation of the barrio and its conversion into an independent municipality. Isidro Balto headed a three-man delegation to Manila to petition the Spanish governor-general for the conversion of Panitan into a town. The governor-general promptly approved the petition.

While still in Manila, Baltao and his companions were walking along the paved streets of Intramuros when they came upon Magallanes Street and then and there, they decided to recommend that the new municipality be named Magallanes in honor of Ferdinand Magellan. The governor general was said to have been impressed by the name Magallanes, and he also named the barrios of the new town after Spanish leaders and missionaries like Urdaneta, Ramirez, Pachero, and Medina. Other streets of the town were also named after prominent Spaniards, like Jovellar, Salcedo, Anda, Colon, San Jose, and San Isidro.

As in most towns in the Philippines, the principal street was named Real (Royal) in honor of the Spanish king. Another street bore the name "de Guia" after the town's patron saint, Nuestra Señore de Guia (Our Lady of the Way).

Barrio Panitan, renamed Magallanes, became an independent municipality on July 15, 1879. Another source says that the city of Magallanes was established in 1880, a difference of one year. At any rate, the first gobernadorcillo of Magallanes was Anastacio Diones. The designation gobernadorcillo was changed to capitan municipal shortly before the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution. Juan Bello, a former capitán municipal, was the leader of Filipino revolutionists against Spain. When the Americans came, the title Capitan Municipal was changed to municipal president.

In 1904, the town of Magallanes was reverted to a barrio of Maragondon when its annual income became insufficient to maintain its status as an independent municipality. It was only in 1916 that Magallanes once again became a town.

Source: https://sinupan.blogspot.com/.../history-of-magallanes.html

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On February 15, 1972, amidst a spate of assassinations against Cavite government officials, Liberal Mayor Anatalio L. Reyes was shot and killed in an ambush by hidden gunmen in Maragondon while he was on the road back to Magallanes from Cavite City with policemen. Reyes' brother-in-law, a policeman and a hitchhiker, was also among the casualties, while only two policemen survived.

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