1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9.. 10.. 11.. 12.. 13.. 14.. 15.. 16.. 17.. 18.. 19.. 20.. < hr align=center color=green width=60% size=10> MALANGAS Way back in the year 1900 or so and even earlier, the town of Malangas was not called Malangas. The place were the present town is located was called "kulaka", a Subanen term for paddling. It was inhabited by Subanen whose beautiful ladies were quartered in towers. About two kilometers distance from this place is a small waterfall which was identified as "Malangas" meaning "noisy" or "noisy brook" which was later on named as Malangas Gamay or "small noisy brook". At about or earlier than the 1900 century people would conveyed to kulaka by paddling their banca. As the years aged on KULAKA become Malangas and Malangas become Malangas Gamay. During the early days there were already Chinese merchants living in Malangas gamay, which was more populated and popular than KULAKA. It was said that the certain Shariff Mohammad Kabungusan arrived at Kulaka and baptized the inhabitants the rest who became the original muslims in the area and those who did not have themselves baptized went to live in the hinterland and remained as the native Subanens. How true was the preceding tale, only history knows. In the early part after the year 1900, Christians from Zamboanga City, the Chavacanos began to migrate to this promising land whose fertile and in the Sibuguey Valley, the rich fishing ground and the grounds and the vast coal deposits attracted them. News of promise land reached the four corners of the country, thereby also attracting from Luzon, Visayas and other parts of Mindanao to Malangas. Most of them came to settle down as land tillers. KULAKA become a booming town, when the sacada from the province of Visayas were brought to work on the coal mines in the logging concessions. However, as the people from other places come to settle forests were denuded and Malarial disease spread likewise fall victims to gas poisoning from methane "ulong-ulong" explosion, several people perished while some of the original immigrant return to their native towns others with determination and perseverance choose to stay despite the odds and became the owners of large track of lands incidentally became well-off. Finally in 1950, influential people from Malangas to avoid confusion baptized KULAKA as Malangas and the people and the old Malangas as Malangas gamay taking due from the people and also became Malangas more popular to the outsiders. Aside from these most of the residents living at the time preferred Malangas instead of Kulaka which does not sound appealing to a name of a beautiful place. Malangas gamay which was the scene of early social and economic activities remained sitio of Lipacan. In July 1951, R.A. 654 created Malangas into a regular municipality, from a mere barrio of Margosatubig, comprising the following barrios: Bacao the mother barrio, Buug, Diplo, Gusem, La Dicha, Matinaw, Gaulan, Tinungtungan, Managon, Lindang, Luop, Salupa, Minsulao, Paruk, Lobing, Balabao, Mati, Baluran and Sampuli.