Mahaplag Archive
Explore the history, culture, roads, and old photographs of Mahaplag.
Mahaplag Archive
Main History
By Noel C. Ayoc and contributing local historians
A source-led account of Mahaplag's early settlement, landscape, migration, political formation, and the memories preserved in its barangay names.
2 chapters
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Habal-Habal Culture
By Marinel R. Caparos
An account of the motorcycle-for-hire, the routes it made possible, and the locally adapted payag that became part of Mahaplag's transport heritage.
1 chapter
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Roads & Pathways
By Rhea A. Lora and Elizar M. Lora
How foot trails, rivers, sawmills, logging concessions, and community labor opened routes through Mahaplag's interior.
1 chapter
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Mahaplag’s Bol-anon
By Meryjoy P. Coretico
The story of Bol-anon vendors who made their way from Bohol to Leyte and built livelihoods and lasting roots in Mahaplag.
1 chapter
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Natural Resources
By Noel C. Ayoc
An environmental record of Mt. Hibabagwan, Pagang-pagang Cave, its bat habitat, and insect species described from Mahaplag.
1 chapter
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Old Photographs
A growing album of Mahaplag's people, places, work, celebrations, and everyday life, catalogued with uncertainty kept visible.
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