Biography of datu sikatuna

In this Philippine name for indigenous people, this person is addressed by the sole name, Katuna.

Datu Sikatuna (or Catunao) was a Datu or chieftain of Bo-ol in the island of Bohol in the Philippines.

He made a blood compact (sanduguan) and alliance with the Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi on March 25, 1565 at Hinawanan Bay, barangay Hinawanan, Loay.^[1] Their blood compact is the first Treaty of Friendship between Spain and the Philippines.^[2] The previous site of the pact was thought to have been at barangay Bool, Tagbilaran City but later a panel of historians concluded that the event actually happened at barangay Hinawanan, Loay, Bohol as ratified through Resolution No.

4, issued by the National Historical Institute in 2005.^[3]

Bo-ol

See also: Bo-ol

The brothers, Datu Pagbuaya and Datu Dailisan, were rulers of Bo-ol before the arrival of the Spaniards.^[4] The vast kingdom has control over the pre