Bilogo
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This article refers to Barangay Bilogo, Batangas City. See Taysan Municipality for Barangay Bilogo, Taysan, Batangas.
Bilogo (officially Barangay Bilogo) is one of the 105 barangays constituting Batangas City
Batangas City
- Foreign Rule :The first Spanish missionaries arrived in Batangas City since 1572. Finally on 1581 Spanish authorities governing the Philippines created a pueblo in the area which included the hill where the present Provincial Capitol of Batangas stands after the formal end of the Coumintang...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. Electrical supply on the other hand, as well as telephone and internet communications are both guaranteed by Meralco
Meralco
The Manila Electric Company , also known as MERALCO or Meralco, is the Philippines' largest distributor of electrical power.The word MERALCO, is an acronym for Manila Electric Railroad And Light COmpany, which was the company's original name from 1903 to 1919.MERALCO is the Metro Manila's only...
and PLDT
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company commonly known as PLDT, is the largest telecommunications company in the Philippines. PLDT is also the largest company in the Philippines, ranked 1138th in the April 2009 update, and 1080th in the April 2010 update, of Forbes' Global 2000 list...
while access for potable water is pledged by Barangay Bilogo Rural Waterworks and Sanitation.
According to the Approved Batangas City 10-Year Comprehensive Development Plan, and Land Use Plan for 2009 - 2018 presented by UP Planning and Development Research Foundation, Inc. last March 2010, Brgy. Bilogo was identified as one of the agro-industrial growth centers of Batangas City
Batangas City
- Foreign Rule :The first Spanish missionaries arrived in Batangas City since 1572. Finally on 1581 Spanish authorities governing the Philippines created a pueblo in the area which included the hill where the present Provincial Capitol of Batangas stands after the formal end of the Coumintang...
.
Strategic location and topography
Brgy. Bilogo is situated about 8 kilometres (5 mi) east of Poblacion, Batangas City. The local vicinity is bounded by Brgy. Maapaz to the north; Brgy. Paharang East to the west; Brgy. San Jose SicoSan Jose Sico
San Jose Sico is one of the 105 barangays comprising Batangas City, Philippines. As a physical rural community, the inhabitants itself enjoy some pleasures a rural folk has including freshness of air, rich cultivated fields and forest's dominance...
to the east, and Brgy. Talumpok East to the south. Public transportations access to Brgy. Bilogo is provided by jeepneys
Jeepney
Jeepneys are the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. They were originally made from US military jeeps left over from World War II and are known for their flamboyant decoration and crowded seating...
enroute from Poblacion, Batangas City to Brgy. Dagatan, Taysan and Poblacion, Lobo
Lobo, Batangas
Lobo is a 4th class municipality in the Province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 37,798 people in 6,611 households....
, Batangas
Batangas
Batangas is a first class province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. Its capital is Batangas City and it is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east. Across the Verde Island Passages to the south is the...
.
The topography is entirely a rural area that provides a close terrain of plains and rolling hills dominated mostly by forests which has a total of approximately 1 600 sq. m (1913.6 sq. yd). Large numbers of tropical trees like fruit-bearings as well as crops like corns
Maize
Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...
and sweet potatoes
Sweet potato
The sweet potato is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are an important root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens. Of the approximately 50 genera and more than 1,000 species of...
are substantially presence everywhere. Numerous streams
Stream
A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...
counting less than 20 are also present throughout the local community with most of it flowing northward although some were extremely polluted due to improper disposal of agricultural wastes coming from pigpens
Sty
A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs. It is sometimes referred to as a hog pen, hog parlor, pigpen, pig parlor, or pig-cote. Pigsties are generally fenced areas of bare dirt and/or mud. Both "sty" and "pigpen" are used as derogatory descriptions of dirty,...
. However, a much larger stream or definitely a little river is sited south of the locale that serves as a frontier for both Brgy. Bilogo itself and Brgy. Talumpok East and Talumpok West. Several terms like "Hot spring", "Latag", "Mabilog", "Piit", "Tartikuleng" and "Tulay-Bakal" are used to name the little river. Residential areas are mostly located along the national and minor roads.
Political subdivisions and characteristics
Brgy. Bilogo is politically subdivided into seven puroksPurok
Purok is a political subdivision of the barangay in the Philippines, especially in rural areas. Both barangay and SK councilors are in charge of leading their own respective puroks....
(zones) while three sitios
Sitio
A sitio in the Philippines is a territorial enclave that forms part of a barangay, the location of which may be distant from the center of the barangay itself....
are historically enclave therein. Below are the list of puroks and sitios with their own significant characteristics.
Puroks
- Purok 1 - The gateway to Brgy. Maapaz & Brgy. Paharang East. Brgy. Bilogo's Day Care Center and 3M Auto-Repair and Detailing Shop are situated there.
- Purok 2 - The Multi-Purpose Hall of Brgy. Bilogo, a branch of Office of the City Veterinary and Agricultural Services (OCVAS), Ortemer Enterprises and Angelica's Bakery are located there.
- Purok 3 - Sitio Callejon is enclave therein while Il kubo Computer Shop is also situated there.
- Purok 4 - Brgy. Bilogo's Outpost, Cooperative Store, Dr. Brenda's Clinic, Materials Recovery FacilityMaterials recovery facilityA materials recovery facility or materials reclamation facility or materials recycling facility is a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-user manufacturers...
(MRF), West Chapel and an automobile repair shop (known as talyer) are located there.
- Purok 5 - The gateway to Brgy. Talumpok West. Sitio Santolan is enclave therein while Prudence Farm, a local chapel, a hill so called "Mapag-ong" and the little river situated south of the barangay are also located there.
- Purok 6 - Brgy. Bilogo Elementary School (which has a total of ten school's personnel & more or less than 100 students), a public basketball court and large numbers of cultivated fields are situated there.
- Purok 7 - The gateway to Brgy. San Jose SicoSan Jose SicoSan Jose Sico is one of the 105 barangays comprising Batangas City, Philippines. As a physical rural community, the inhabitants itself enjoy some pleasures a rural folk has including freshness of air, rich cultivated fields and forest's dominance...
. Sitio Bagong Pook is enclave therein while the East Chapel, Lubis Farm, Radiant Life Church and Unica Hija Enterprises are also located there.
Sitios
- Sitio Bagong Pook - Situated in Purok 7 and the smallest of all the sitios of Brgy. Bilogo.
- Sitio Callejon - Popularly known as "Ilaya" and situated in Purok 3; it is the largest of all the sitios of Brgy. Bilogo in terms of size.
- Sitio Santolan - Situated in Purok 5 and is second to Sitio Callejon in terms of size.
History
Brgy. Bilogo's existence was first recorded in history since 1870 being one of the earliest barangays of Batangas CityBatangas City
- Foreign Rule :The first Spanish missionaries arrived in Batangas City since 1572. Finally on 1581 Spanish authorities governing the Philippines created a pueblo in the area which included the hill where the present Provincial Capitol of Batangas stands after the formal end of the Coumintang...
. Legend tells that one day, a Spanish soldier wandering around Brgy. Bilogo asked the name of this place from a young boy. However, the latter cannot understand Spanish language
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. Thinking that the soldier might be asking the name of the Gugo Tree's fruit (Entada phaseoloides
Entada
Entada is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae. It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution.-Selected species:*...
or St. Thomas Bean) which was abundant in Brgy. Bilogo during that time, the boy answered "Bayugo". The soldier kept remembering the word until it was transferred from one mouth to another. Time went by, Bayugo however turns to "Biyugo" when it was finally recognized as one of the earliest barangays of Batangas City.
According also to legend, Biyugo was finally changed to "Bilogo" after local natives who found a circular-shaped house in this place exclaimed "bilogo", meaning circle or round.
Bilogo was acquired by a rich Spanish official. Inter-marriages soon followed between foreign and local inhabitants and population gradually increased. Several "Teniente del Barrio
Cabeza de Barangay
The Cabeza de Barangay was the leader or chief of a barangay in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. The post was inherited from the first datus who became cabezas de barangay when the many independent barangays fell under the rule of the Spanish Crown...
" and "Cabeza de Barangay
Cabeza de Barangay
The Cabeza de Barangay was the leader or chief of a barangay in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. The post was inherited from the first datus who became cabezas de barangay when the many independent barangays fell under the rule of the Spanish Crown...
" like Victor Castillo, Miguel Chavez, Miguel Ebe, Jose Manalo, Quintin Manalo, Dionisio Panganiban, Exequiel Perez, Juan Perez, Feluz Sulit and Fortunato Sulit served service of leadership for Brgy. Bilogo.
Years later, Bilogo was reestablished as a sitio and was incorporated to Sitio Maapaz thus gaining a new name, Brgy. Bilogo Maapaz. Progress and rapid increase in population brought Brgy. Bilogo Maapaz to be separated as both sitios became an independent barangays.
Record also cites that by the end of the Pacific War, several houses in Brgy. Bilogo once owned by Eleuterio Canent, Hilarion Lontoc, Pedro Ramos and Francisco Rosales were burned by the retreating Japanese after news came that one of their official was killed there.
During the presidency of Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos, the public school was founded in 1960 consisting of Grade I up to IV only. By 1984, Grade V and VI were soon added.
On 1998, Brgy. Bilogo simultaneously achieved a title for being the cleanliest and healthiest barangay
Barangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
in the former Region 4 of the Philippines
Southern Tagalog
Southern Tagalog, or Region IV, was a region of the Philippines that is now composed of Region IV-A and Region IV-B . Region IV was split into the two regions on May 17, 2002...
. This was during the leadership of Barangay Captain Angel Umali.
The latter was succeeded by Alfredo Villanueva. During his leadership, roads were subsequently repaired coupled with the constructions of new canals and improvements of waterworks through the helped of former Gov. Armando Sanchez
Arman Sanchez
Armando Sanchez was a Filipino politician. He is a former two-term mayor of Sto. Tomas, Batangas and one-term Governor of the Province of Batangas...
and Mayor Eduardo Dimacuha. Both politicians donated some three up to five-horse power submersible pumps & cables and 20 GI pipes last June 2006. On the other hand, the Materials Recovery Facility
Materials recovery facility
A materials recovery facility or materials reclamation facility or materials recycling facility is a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-user manufacturers...
(MRF) was founded and constructed in order to maintain proper segregation for solid waste materials. Summer sports leagues for basketball, volleyball and chess were also launched and are conducted every April-May a year.
Alfredo Villanueva was succeeded by Ramil Manalo last 2007. Recently after the Philippine Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections of 2010
Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, 2010
Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections were held on October 25, 2010 in the Philippines. The electorate elected in nonpartisan elections, the Barangay chairman also known as the Punong Barangay and members of the Sangguniang Barangay for voters aged 18 and above...
, James Villena assumed as the barangay captain. On the other hand, the newly appointed Philippine Supreme Court Associate Justice Jose P. Perez is a native of Brgy. Bilogo.
External links
1. Official Website of the Local Government of Batangas City