La Libertad, Negros Oriental 3.92

It was once called Barrio Hinoba-an and renamed as La Libertad to mark the residents’ successful repulse of the marauding brigands that regularly plundered the north at that time. Another has a prominent citizen pressing for the renaming to immortalize his liberation, by Hinoba-an natives, from the hands of tulisanes. The name La Libertad is also said to celebrate the local guerillas’ victorious resistance efforts during WWII. La Libertad attained the status of municipality in 1919. It was created a parish in 1935.
Although typically rural, with expanses of sugar cane fields and farms producing corn, copra, peanuts, soybeans and copra, La Libertad has areas of uncommon drama such as the Daras-an Range and Pacuan Valley, the plateaus of Bagtic and Eli, and Hinoba-an River. Among its recently discovered tourism assets are Mambulotan Springs and the caves of Pacuan, Danao and the so-called Marble Cave named after its unusual striated sculptural folds.
La Libertad’s Francisco Absin Memorial Park was the top awardee in the 1952 National Community Beautification Contest.