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