Anda Town's Old Tales and Folk Stories

The town of Anda was once a barrio of Guindulman known as Quinale. As a barrio, it progressed with public buildings, their church was improved and roads created leading to Guindulman. After the petition was made by the people in Quinale on December 30, 1872, Consejo de Administration finally recommended Quinale be separated in its civil aspect only that took more than six months.  

The local officials of the new town of Anda and the mother town of Guindulman gathered to discuss and determine the boundaries of the two towns on May 3, 1875. After 10 years, on January 6, 1885, Royal approval was given and finally implemented on July 18, 1885 as an independent parish from Guindulman which dedicated to the Santo Niño or the Holy Child and Fr. Julian Cisnero became the 1st Parish Priest. Since from 1885 up to 1937 the line of Spanish priests serving the parish of Anda was not broken, even after the end of the Spanish Regime and thru the American era.

A folk story recounts that the decree on the separation of Quinale from Guindulman did not explain why the name “Anda” was chosen but the accepted explanation was that the name refers to Governor General Simon de Anda y Salazar who was Governor General of the Philippines from 1769-1770. Simon de Anda was a member of the Royal Audiencia in the Philippines who did not surrender to the British in 1762.