[3] Located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Tagbilaran, it may have been named after a town in the province of Navarre in northern Spain.

[5] Corella is known primarily as the home of the endemic Philippine tarsier, one of the world's smallest primates.

The people of Corella are predominantly conservative Roman Catholics belonging to the parish of Our Lady of the Village whose feast is celebrated on 27 April.

Jose Maria Cabañas del Carmen, then the parish priest of Baclayon, and endorsed by Fr.

Corella was a name of a village in Navarra, Spain where this town's patroness, Nuestra Señora del Villar, showered miracles.

Simeon lambasted the municipal administration and condemned the teachings in Corella schools as having originated from the mouth of hell.

During the Japanese occupation, the area at a distance halfway between Corella and Gaboc was "no-man's land".

Martin Maliwanag, a guerrilla leader under Major Ismael Ingeniero, established his headquarters in Corella, making the convent his command post and the primary school building east of the town plaza his detention cell.

Groups of people migrated to other parts of the country, such as Mindanao, where they founded a new municipality, "New Corella".