via Rappler, 19 July 2022: A local lawmaker is seeking to preserve and protect the remains of a colonial-period watchtower in Cagayan de Oro.
What remains of the four stone walls of the watchtower can be found meters away from a lighthouse erected near a cliff, overlooking Macajalar Bay and the Bohol Sea, in Punta Sulauan in Barangay Moog, Laguindingan.
Punta Sulauan, by itself, is historic. It served as a point of reference in an old map when Mindanao was split into two territories by a pope to guide two Catholic missionary orders in their work on the Philippines’ second largest island, said Cagayan de Oro historian and archaeologist Agnes Paulita “Nanette” Roa.
The site is approximately four kilometers from the nine-year-old Laguindingan Airport, between the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan.
Social anthropologist Antonio Montalvan II said the watchtower was built during the Spanish colonial period, presumably between the 1700s and the early 1800s when the Moro raids took place.
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