Corella , officially the Municipality of Corella ( Cebuano : Munisipalidad sa Corella ; Tagalog : Bayan ng Corella ), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Bohol , Philippines . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 9,479 people.
16-551: [REDACTED] Look up corella in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Corella may refer to: Biology [ edit ] Corella (bird) , a member of a group of cockatoos from the subgenus Licmetis Corella (journal) , the journal of the Australian Bird Study Association, formerly called Australian Bird Bander Corella (tunicate) ,
32-553: A genus of sea squirts Corella, a pear cultivar People [ edit ] Ángel Corella , dancer with American Ballet Theatre Corrella , New Zealand roots reggae band Places [ edit ] Corella, Bohol , Philippines New Corella, Davao del Norte , Philippines Corella, Queensland , a locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia Corella, Spain Corella, Italy Topics referred to by
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80-447: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Corella, Bohol Located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Tagbilaran , it may have been named after a town in the province of Navarre in northern Spain. Corella is known primarily as the home of the endemic Philippine tarsier , one of the world's smallest primates. The 7.4-hectare (18-acre) Philippine tarsier sanctuary run by
96-677: The Philippine Tarsier Foundation , as well as the Research and Development Center, is in Canapnapan, three kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the centre of town. The people of Corella are predominantly conservative Roman Catholics belonging to the parish of Our Lady of the Village whose feast is celebrated on 27 April. The municipality's former name was Nug‑as before it obtained its present name, Corella. It
112-643: The Japanese as the latter tried to escape the US army of liberation. In October 1944, Capt. Martin Maliwanag, a guerrilla leader under Major Ismael Ingeniero, established his headquarters in Corella, making the convent his command post and the primary school building east of the town plaza his detention cell. Several Filipino JCs ( Japanese Constabulary ) surrendered voluntarily. The first to surrender on 29 October 1944
128-494: The Japanese garrison in Gaboc. His body was buried in the same cemetery as his victims. It was Maliwanag's men who captured the puppet Japanese governor Agapito Hontanosas . During the guerrilla period, Corella had four mayors closely succeeding each other: At present, Corella is politically subdivided into 8 barangays . Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios . All barangays are classified as rural. From 1990,
144-419: The administration of the Corella parish after the incumbent, Fr. Eugenio Desamparados, left. A battle of principles, rights, obligations, and duties raged in the municipality in 1920 between Simeon Sambola, the parish priest and the municipal president, Nicanor C. Tocmo, who were at loggerheads on the matter of school administration. From the pulpit, Fr. Simeon lambasted the municipal administration and condemned
160-430: The convent were constructed during the tenure of Fr. Felix Gullen and completed by later priests, one of them being Fr. Dionisio Llorete who also spearheaded the erection of two stone school buildings and the municipal building during the term of the gobernadorcillo, Celedonio Sayon. But the construction of Corella's present concrete church began in 1924 under Fr. Pedro Montelbon, the parish priest of Tagbilaran who took over
176-443: The journal of the Australian Bird Study Association, formerly called Australian Bird Bander Corella (tunicate) , a genus of sea squirts Corella, a pear cultivar People [ edit ] Ángel Corella , dancer with American Ballet Theatre Corrella , New Zealand roots reggae band Places [ edit ] Corella, Bohol , Philippines New Corella, Davao del Norte , Philippines Corella, Queensland ,
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208-458: The teachings in Corella schools as having originated from the mouth of hell. As a result, enrollment in the school greatly diminished. Only close family friends and relatives of president Tocmo sent their children to school. The local civil administration complained to the provincial and national authorities. After a fact-finding investigation by the Department of Public Instruction whose report
224-470: Was Lt. Victorio Sumodabila. He was shot on the spot by Capt. Maliwanag. Four other JCs from Corella who were killed and buried in the common grave of Corella were Dandong Lamayo, his brother Fermin Lamayo, Felicisimo Guscal, and his brother-in-law, Celistino Formentera. In all, there were nine Filipino JCs who met their violent deaths in Corella on orders of Capt. Maliwanag, who met his own death when he attacked
240-499: Was submitted to the Governor-General, Fr. Simeon was removed from the parish. During the Japanese occupation, the area at a distance halfway between Corella and Gaboc was " no-man's land ". Several civilians were arrested there by the Japanese and executed on the spot. Honorio Butawan, a bolo volunteer, was caught by the enemy, and taken to Tagbilaran never to return. Other civilians of Corella suffered instant death from
256-570: Was then a barrio of Baclayon. The adoption of the name Corella was made at the behest of Fr. Jose Maria Cabañas del Carmen, then the parish priest of Baclayon, and endorsed by Fr. Felix Guillen de San Jose, the first Spanish priest. Corella was a name of a village in Navarra, Spain where this town's patroness, Nuestra Señora del Villar, showered miracles. The creation of this town was due to the efforts of its inhabitants including Isidoro Ramo, who became its first gobernadorcillo . The stone church and
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