Sak-Sak Festival was taken from a palm tree which is commonly found in the town and called it "saksak". It is a plant that most likely growth with a single unbranched topped and fanlike or feather leaves. Last year Sak-Sak Festival was a pre lunch of promotion in awareness and develop an understandingof the rich culture and arts of Samboan Cebu . Sak-Sak provides the richness in dancing, uses of saksak, foods,great economic importance and ornamental use in the people of Samboanon.

1879 Spanish Watch Tower

Another glorious Spanish structure is the 1879 watch tower which was constructed on purpose of checking Moro pirates who invaded the land for a period of time. It is made up of coral stones and considered the tallest and the most preserved watch tower in entire Cebu.

Samboan WWII Volunteers Monument

It is found at the center of  Poblacion where volunteers during the WWII, who risked their lives for the freedom of the country, were honored.

Map of Samboan

Samboan is a 5th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 18,140 people.

History

Samboan is an abbreviation of the word sinamboang, the origin of the name of the town. Sinamboang is a means of ritual dance commonly used by the people of the village. Like other Cebu towns’ legends as to how they were named, Samboan’s also came about from a language barrier between the European and natives. It seemed that some Spaniards came upon a group of people who were engaged in sinamboang. Curious about the place, they asked for its name but the natives thought they were asking about what they were doing, and they promptly answered: sinamboang.
Samboan is a small town on a hill. But it used to be very much bigger, with Oslob and Alegeria under its territorial jurisdiction. In fact, people of Algeria were made to render forced labor for the construction of the Samboan church. It was only some time during the middle of the 1880s that the two towns were separated from Samboan.

Barangays

Samboan is subdivided into 15 barangays.

• Basak
• Bonbon
• Bulangsuran
• Calatagan
• Cambigong
• Camburoy
• Canorong
• Colase
• Dalahikan
• Jumangpas
• Monteverde
• Poblacion
• San Sebastian
• Suba
• Tangbo

Aguinid Falls

Aguinid Falls

Mystically concealed from the grasp of urbanization, Aguinid Falls has preserved its enchanting beauty naturally adorned by regal canopies of age-old trees and lush greens.

Aguinid Falls consists of five different levels of waterfalls that will converge into the Tangbo River. Even though these five levels are considered small compared to other waterfalls, each level has a unique shape and form that make them uniquely beautiful, which you can appreciate as you trek from the lowest to the highest falls.

You can reach the peak by climbing the limestone walls of each waterfall. As you go towards the top, it is but normal to get wet from the flowing waters of the falls. The thrill of this experience is well worth it.

The Aguinid Falls is located in Barangay Tangbo in the Municipality of Samboan, Cebu. The town of Samboan is about 140-kilometers from Cebu City and is situated in the southwestern coast of Cebu Island. The town of Samboan can be reached by public buses or hired private vans from the Cebu South Terminal in the Mandaue Reclamation Area in Cebu City. The estimated travel time from the city to Samboan is three to four hours.

Location: Tangbo Samboan