[3] The town of San Francisco used to be part of Liloan, Southern Leyte and was created as a separate municipality on November 1, 1949 by President Elpidio Quirino through Executive Order No.

They gave it the name Canlili-ug because the river's waters that time reached up to a person's neck or liog in the vernacular.

[6] During the Spanish period, the inhabitants became Roman Catholics and the place came to be known as San Francisco, after Saint Francis Javier.

[6] In December 2003, a landslide destroyed most of barangay Punta, killing 200 people.

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