The town has almost 35,000 people in 5,300 household as statistics shows in the 2005 Census. The municipality of Jimalalud considered as a 4th class municipality of the Province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. The town of Jimalalud celebrates its fiesta called “SINULOG DE JIMALALUD”, every January 13 of the year. It attracts foreign tourist and neighboring people as they celebrated their fiesta accompanied by street dancing and a grand showdown dramatize the Santo Niño's presence in the varied pursuits of Jimalalud's different sectors; the festival preludes the town fiesta honoring the Holy child; another crowd-drawing highlight is the rousing traditional horse fight. beauty pageants and other related events that enliven the celebration.
The municipality was divided into different political barangays which governed by their respective barangay captain.
TAWO-TAWO FESTIVAL. Bayawan City
The name Bayawan, which is derived from the Visayan word, "Bayaw" or to hoist.
n the past, Bayawan has always been known as the "Rice Granary of Negros South". Her vast plains have seen glorious days of prolific rice harvest. Today, Bayawan City is known as the Agricultural Capital of the province of Negros Oriental. As an agricultural city, a better production yield is always anticipated, and the presence of the "Tawo-Tawo" or scarecrow had always been a great help to the farmers for several decades. This farmer's creation (others call it ingenuity) has resulted to achieve bountiful yield during harvest -- for the "Tawo-Tawo" had been known to be an effective great scare to drive away the pesky little birds -- the natives call "Maya" that feed on the ripening golden rice grains. Thus, the birth of the "Tawo-Tawo Festival".
The Tawo-Tawo had been conceptualized as an off-shoot of the Fiesta islands trend initiated by the Bayawan Health Club and commenced by Bayawan Habagat Jaycees on 1986, to add more attraction to the Fiesta celebration. Since then, several civic organizations took turns sponsoring this affair until the year 1990 when the LGU of Bayawan decreed it to be a regular part of the annual fiesta.
For several years now the TawoTawo Festival had drawn mixed crowds. Guests from other cities, municipalities and provinces came in droves to witness the street dancing spectacle and field presentation. Each year saw the performance of participating contingents being improvised with artistic innovations. Still, the tableau of rice culture from planting to harvesting replete with the primary characters: farmers, mayas, scarecrows and carabaos are presented by the contingents in an artistically choreographed movements synchronizing now to the beat of the drums and other musical instruments. In the past, participation is open to schools, barangays, private entities and even neighboring municipalities. Presently, the Tawo-Tawo Festival is confined as a competition among the 28 barangays in the city.
The Tawo-Tawo had been conceptualized as an off-shoot of the Fiesta islands trend initiated by the Bayawan Health Club and commenced by Bayawan Habagat Jaycees on 1986, to add more attraction to the Fiesta celebration. Since then, several civic organizations took turns sponsoring this affair until the year 1990 when the LGU of Bayawan decreed it to be a regular part of the annual fiesta.
For several years now the TawoTawo Festival had drawn mixed crowds. Guests from other cities, municipalities and provinces came in droves to witness the street dancing spectacle and field presentation. Each year saw the performance of participating contingents being improvised with artistic innovations. Still, the tableau of rice culture from planting to harvesting replete with the primary characters: farmers, mayas, scarecrows and carabaos are presented by the contingents in an artistically choreographed movements synchronizing now to the beat of the drums and other musical instruments. In the past, participation is open to schools, barangays, private entities and even neighboring municipalities. Presently, the Tawo-Tawo Festival is confined as a competition among the 28 barangays in the city.
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