Scribd
Upload
61 views5 pages

Amparo, Pia Margaret - Ii-Beed - Assignment#1ssc2 PDF

San Juan was originally a small village called Bolbok that grew in population and economic activity and became a town headed by a gobernadorcillo. In 1869, frequent floods prompted the town to relocate to a new site. The name was officially changed to San Juan in the 1920s to honor the patron saint. San Juan was officially recognized as a separate municipality from Rosario in 1848 and is now the second largest in Batangas province, with 42 barangays and a population of over 90,000. The town has suitable conditions for tourism development along its 33 km coastline with beaches, coves, and marine life between mountains and hills.

Uploaded by

Pia Margaret Amparo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
61 views5 pages

Amparo, Pia Margaret - Ii-Beed - Assignment#1ssc2 PDF

San Juan was originally a small village called Bolbok that grew in population and economic activity and became a town headed by a gobernadorcillo. In 1869, frequent floods prompted the town to relocate to a new site. The name was officially changed to San Juan in the 1920s to honor the patron saint. San Juan was officially recognized as a separate municipality from Rosario in 1848 and is now the second largest in Batangas province, with 42 barangays and a population of over 90,000. The town has suitable conditions for tourism development along its 33 km coastline with beaches, coves, and marine life between mountains and hills.

Uploaded by

Pia Margaret Amparo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
Download as pdf or txt
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1/ 5

WELCOME

TO
San Juan,Batangas!
AMPARO, PIA MARGARET P.
II-BEED
San Juan was just a small village
formerly called Bolbok
(Nabulbok). Gradually, the
village grew in population as well
as in economic activities and
soon became town headed by
gobernadorcillo or municipal
mayor. The first gobernadorcillo
was Don Camilo Perez whose
administration was marked with
many accomplishments in
public works and maintenance
of peace and order.
In 1869, frequent floods became a
harrowing threat to life and
property, the original site being in a
seaside barrio of Pinagbayanan, was
transferred to a new site. This
consists of a sizeable area belonging
to the nearby barrios of Calit-calit,
Maraykit and Lipahan. Several
gobernadorcillos partook one after
the other in manning the
government of San Juan. During the
Spanish regime, illustrados shared
their cooperation with Spanish
priest founders, so that in 1884, the
town parish church was
inaugurated. By virtue of a
municipal resolution duly approved
by the Philippine Legislature, the
name Bolbok was changed in 1920’s
and formerly adopted the name San
Juan in honor of the patron Saint
San Juan de Nepomuceno by which
it has been known up to the present
time.
The Municipality of San Juan,
formerly a village of the town of
Rosario, was officially
recognized as a separate
Municipality in 1848.
Considered as the 2nd largest
municipality in the Province of
Batangas, it has a total land area
of 27,340 hectares
predominantly devoted to
Agriculture. By virtue of
Department of Finance
Memorandum No. 01-M(35)
dated January 31, 2006, it has
been reclassified from a second
class to first-class Municipality
effective July of 2005. It has 42
barangays under its general
supervision with a total
population of 90,294 based on
the latest NEDA Census of 2008.
The location of the municipality at the southern tip, with the picturesque view of long
white sandy beaches, coves, and marine life cradled at the foot of mountains and hills
makes the area suitable for all levels of tourism development. In consideration of this
natural resource, the Laiya area and its surrounding environs on the southern tip of
the municipality has been identified as one of the tourism development precincts in
the Tourism Master Plan for Batangas/Taal/Tagaytay areas prepared for the
government of the Philippines through the Department of Tourism by the World
Tourism Organization acting as the executing agency for the United Nations
Development Program. Being bounded by Tayabas Bay on the east, the municipality
has access to one of the fishing grounds of the region. The shorelines of the eastern
barangays bordering on the said bay are rich inland fishponds, swamps, and marshes
which are havens of fishes and other foods. These also make the municipality a
fishbowl on these parts of Batangas and Quezon province. Only two and a half down
drive from Manila a forested mountainous inland looks out over a 33 kilometers
coastline of black and white sand beaches and diverse marine life.

Reference
San Juan, Batangas - History. (n.d.). https://www.sanjuanbatangas.gov.ph/about-
us/history

You might also like