Simon de Anda was a member of the Royal Audiencia in the Philippines who did not surrender to the British in 1762.

The word "quinale" or "gui kale", is a colloquial local term for a pile of sand dunes caused by the waves enhancing a new land mass.

The new migrants established the red hematite petrographs in the Anda peninsula and would become a sacred site for ethnic communities.

Today, local healers and shaman still practice pagdiwata rituals, or offerings to the spirits for good fortune, located in Lamanok Point in Anda.

[8] The wooden boat coffins are estimated to date back 6,000 years ago from the Metal Age to the Protohistoric Period.

[10][11] During the first half of the 16th century, the Sultanate of Ternate ransacked the area, along with the communities of western Bohol, specifically, the Dapitan Kingdom.

When the Spanish arrived during the later half of the 16th century, the Anda communities were easily subjugated as they have already been ravaged by the Ternate people.

At the onset, Quinale was basically uninhabited with plenty of uncultivated lands and its shores were swampy with many mangroves and hardwood trees.

Still persistent, the people of Quinale again filed their petition on 27 March 1874 which was subsequently declined due to the same reason.

They were repeatedly denied for the same reason, yet it was indicated that births in the town of Quinale far exceeded the number of deaths, but the people migrated to other places because of lack of supervision and opportunities.

More than six months passed before the Consejo de Administration finally recommended that Quinale be separated in its civil aspect only.

Finally on 12 March 1875, the governor general Don Jose de Malcampo y Monje issued the decree creating the new town of Anda and its being separated from the town of Guindulman in civil aspect only, consonant with the desire of the religious authorities.

That person was Pablo Juliano Castro, an illegitimate son of a Spanish priest in Guindulman who had a privileged education in Manila.

People no longer migrated and eventually the number of taxpayers increased until they were able to qualify to be a separate town in the religious aspect.