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Culture and Arts

GOAL
To promote and preserve the Surigaonon culture as a strategy towards a culture-based local economic development.

OBJECTIVE

To take lead in the study and preservation of the rich, artistic, historical and cultural heritage of the Surigaonon.
To coordinate all educational and technical trainings and researches on the culture and arts.
To serve as a center for the development of the Surigaonon sense of pride in its identity, cultural heritage and nature patrimony.
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HISTORY OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE

Emergence from the Sea


A scene of forbidding desolation engulfed the province on its birth millenniums ago.  The land masses newly-emerged from the ocean floor were barren.  Violent windstorm lashed at its rugged coast and a heavily overcast sky incessantly drenched the mist-shrouded earth with torrential rains.  Upon its craggy surface only the crudest form of life creped.

Most of the province then was under the sea.  The towering ranges of Diwata and other peaks were perhaps the only points above the surface.  The present coastline with its great swamps and the plains along the valleys and at the foothills were nowhere to be seen.  Gradually, as a result of the movement of the earth’s crust, lands shifted.  While others appeared, some disappeared into the depths of the Pacific Ocean.  It is through this slow process of upheaval that Surigao evolved and acquired its configuration today with its chain of off-shore islands.

It is known whether the province ever bred its own ancient native.  But the possibility of the existence of the first Surigaonon in the dim past is not remote.  Discoveries in Palawan of crude stone axes made of tektites which showered the Philippines during the Paleolithic period quite unmistakably indicate that man lived in the country and possibly Surigao in those times.


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