MAUBAN TOWN FIESTA is held every 15th of July in honor of St. Bonaventure, the town’s patron saint. This custom is marked by bands marching around the town, mass processions, street party ankathon and parades. The event spurs renewed camaraderie s Maubanins find time either to entertain guests or visit friends for  drink or two.

 

 

GAT UBAN OR GAT PANGIL JR., a Dumagat,  is said to be this  town folks’ liberator from the attack of  Moros. He was fondly called Gat Uban because of his gray hair at the age of twenty and was given the title  Gat  because he was considered an honorable chieftain of one of the 5 settlements of this town and the hero of all the  early settlements. Gat Pangil or Gat Uban showed  his  unexcelled bravery, tact  and exemplary ways of fighting during the Moro pirates’ attack. Sincere appreciation was given him by  the settlements when he left the settlement together with other Dumagats on account of  their  different way of living. It was when Rev. Father Tabor, a Tagalog Priest who was assigned in this area that the settlements ware organized as a town. Its  government was patterned after the Spanish government. Simultaneously, the name of the town came into consideration and in remembrance of Gat Uban’s  heroic acts,  the name that was given to the new born town was  MAUBAN  meaning with “plenty of gray hair”.  

Maubanog Festival is a three- day festivity from May 16 -18 highlighting the colorful tradition and bountiful harvest of Mauban in the present year. It is a moment of joy, celebration and thanksgiving. It is one of the town’s main event during the peak of summer when harvest of Kibal, the local term for the fruit of mangrove palm  (nypa fruticans) sap is at its best. This weeklong revelry is centered on our famous Nipanog, the strong liquor distilled from slightly fermented sap of kibal. Festively adorned booths are set up to sell different fruity flavours of the liquor throughout the occasion. The celebration culminates in a judging contest of the best session drinker and the best tasting nipanog concocted by the local distillers.There’s much more to Maubanog than drinking nipanog, though. There are parades and cultural shows highlighting the rich and colourful history of our town.