Belang

Belang lies on the southeastern coast of the Minahasa peninsula, looking across the Molucca Sea. In the history of Bolaang Mongondow, its harbour appears as Mandolang, one of the coastal places brought under the kingdom's influence during its seventeenth-century expansion. The rulers of Bolaang reached beyond their heartland on the Mongondow plateau to ports and inland settlements across northern Sulawesi, bringing this stretch of shore into their wider sphere.