Top 10 Festivals of the Province of LAGUNA: Pangil, Laguna

Bandana festival is a religious festival honoring the Nuestra Señora de la O and Sto. Niño de la O.

Pangil, Laguna - Bandana Festival

According to legend, the town’s men folk, wearing their traditional headdresses (BANDANA), together with the other inhabitants joyously welcomed the statues in the town of Pencil. The highlight of the festival is the street dancing where in colorful bandanas participants will display.

Pangil is a fourth class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 23,201 people^. Its land area consists of two non-contiguous parts, separated by Laguna de Bay.

Pangil is politically subdivided into 8 barangays:

Balian
Dambo
Galalan
Isla (Pob.)
Mabato-Asufre
Natividad (Pob.)
San Jose (Pob.)
Sulib (Pob.)

Panguil (pronounce as Pangil) was founded in 1579 by two Franciscan missionaries. The town's name is believed to have come from three coincidental circumstances: One historical version was that it was named after the fang of a wild boar called "Panguil" in the vernacular.^; another version accounts to the first native inhabitants of the place called "Panguilagan"; and the third version relates about the place being once dominated by the first pre-Spanish chieftain named Gat Paguil.

Pangil, Laguna - Bandana Festival