The Municipality of Ivisan

Long prior to the Spanish foray, this place  was wilderness, so rounded with thick plant life and big trees. The people lived by groups at first, serene of about five or seven families. Later on, these groups founded a village. Due to the geographical situation of the town the chief livelihood of the people were mostly fishing and a little farming. Whenever people far from villages yearned for the fresh fish they always said “lets go the place where there is an abundance of  “ibis” (refers to small fish). They usually come in groups stayed for weeks, salting and preserving the small fish that they could get. Later on, when the Spaniards came, they thought it wise to give a proper name to the village. The Provincial Governor appointed a committee. This in turn called a meeting of all the prominent men of the village purposely for the selection of an appropriate name for this pueblo. The people together with the Spanish Officials, aware of the fact that the place was famous for  “Ibis” , unanimously deemed it right and proper to call it “Ibisan”. Officially however, the Spaniards called it  “IVisan” because of their preferences of the letter  “V” to  “B”. Modern scholars nevertheless, under the influence of American Educators called  “Iuisan” primarily for the sake of euphony and secondly for the reason that old roman writing they write  “U” as “V” hence reading V as U  as “IUISAN”.