Maghaway

Maghaway is a Mountain barangay of Talisay City, Cebu. Population 3452. A small farming community. Site of several new residential developments by Crown Asia and Communities Philippines, owned by Manny Villar, and also some informal or squatter settlements. Talisay has built its new Rehabilitation and Detention Center in the village. Unemployment 20 per-cent. [http://www.talisaycitycebu.gov.ph]

History

Local people believe that before the Spanish era, the most common enemy of the Sri Vijayan settlers were the Moro pirates. At the first site of the Moro vintas, coastal inhabitants would flee to the mountains of Talisay. This was where their elders would call "Anhi ta Makigaway ug Mag-away". In the 1980s, the "kalibunan" or wilderness area leading to the barangay from Lawaan became notorious as "the killing fields" of Talisay, an area of tall cogon grasses and papaya trees used as a dumping ground for victims of summary execution by the New People's Army and elements of the Philippine National Police. In the 1990s, this area was purchased by Communities Philippines for their large Tierra Grande sub-division - a district now plagued by social ills.