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Sunday, August 10, 2008
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Lakan Dula
A lot of Marikenos are descendants of Lakan Dula. Because of intense persecution of the native aristocracy by the Spaniards, Lakan Dula, the King of the Pre-Hispanic Manila based in what is known today as Tondo, sent his descendants to far away places along rivers and sea routes.Several groups of Lakan Dula descendants settled along the riverbanks of what is now known as Jesus de la Pena and Calumpang in Marikina Valley and adopted hispanic sounding surnames to hide their aristocratic identities like Guevara, Flores, Santos, Mendoza,de la Paz, Estanislao, Fernando, De Guzman, etc. Some decided to maintain their native surnames revolving around the "dula" root word, adding just few letters either before or after the root word. Some others simply adopted native sounding surnames and decided not to mingle with the hispanic poblacion around the vicinity of today's Shoe Museum.
The Oldest Church in Marikina Valley
The descendants of Lakan Dula of Jesus de la Pena built and sustained the oldest church of Marikina Valley
The Shoe Museum
The former Spanish Jail in front of the "Marikina Cathedral" in the heart of the poblacion near the ancestral house of the Dulay Clan in I.Mendoza St.
