Geographical Background

Hingotanan is one of the coral islands dotting the north-eastern coastline of Bohol in Central Visayas. It is one of the bigger islands and the most densely populated. In the late 1970's, due to its swelling population going over 5,000 of about 700 households, a move to split the barangay into two was initiated by the late MR. APRONIANO PADEN who was then a setting municipal councilor of Bien Unido, the island's mother town. 

  Eventually, the sincere efforts of those who were behind it, paid off and a decision was reached. Hingotanan was officially divided into two separate barangays which are now known as Hingotanan East and Hingotanan West.

  The total land area of the entire island is only 32.7 hectares.The means of transportation to go in and out of the island in between its neighboring barangays and coastal towns of Bohol, Leyte and Cebu is called ''pumpboats. 

   The island is composed of four sitios namely: 1) Lugating on the West, 2)Tunga on the North. These two sitios form Hingotanan East and the other two, 3) Lawis on the East and 4) Luyo at the South, belongs to Hingotanan West. Its inhabitants are predominantly Roman Catholics and very few are affiliated with either the Baptists or the  Protestants of the United Church of Christ congregations. 

  The early 1980's were the pivotal years and the dawn of a miraculous economic transformation amongst the people of this island, when its naturally abundant marine product SEAWEED (with varieties like: agar-agar, eucheuma, cottonii and spinosum and when processed will have a by-product called, Carrageenan) was scientifically found to be an excellent stabilizer for toothpaste making; thickener for fire fighting foam, shampoo and cosmetic creams; gel for shoe polish, ice cream, milk shakes, sweetened condensed milk and sauces and many more.