Baao Recreation Center
Bahamas Resort
Monday, July 28, 2014
Education
Baao Community College the lone state school offering tertiary courses for college students.
St. Monica Academy is a private catholic school run by Augustinian sisters. It offers both elementary and secondary quality education with the purpose of creating graduates not only of high caliber but also with hearts that are "in one" with the poor.
Rosary School Inc. (formerly Rosary Learning Center) is a private educational institution offering complete preschool, elementary and secondary courses.
Ave Maria Early Childhood Impressions Center is a private catholic school for toddlers and pre-schoolers ages 2 yrs. old and above.
Other schools include:
- Agdangan High School
- Baao Central School
- Baao High School
- Baao West Central School
- Eusebia Paz Arroyo Memorial High School
- Nonito Paz Arroyo Memorial High School
How to get to Baao:
Cebu Pacific and Air Philippines have several daily flights to Naga Airport, which is locally known in Bicol as Pili Airport. From Naga Airport, located in the town of Pili, you can ride a bus or a taxi bound for Iriga or Legazpi City and then get off at Baao. The town is about 45 minutes to 1 hour ride from the airport. The bus fare from Pili to Baao is 20 pesos. If you’re coming from Naga or Pili, you will be passing the forked road in Baao town going to downtown Baao and Iriga City. Just after the railroad crossing, turn left going to Iriga City, because if you turn right, that’s the road going to Nabua and Legazpi City.
By Bus:
From Manila, there are several buses bound to Bicol region. Ride a bus that is bound for Iriga City or Legazpi City and then get off at Baao. If you’ll be riding a bus bound for Legazpi City or Tabaco City, be sure to ask the driver or the conductor if the bus will pass by downtown Baao because some buses will not pass downtown Baao and will just use the diversion road at Nabua town. The usual travel time from Metro Manila to Baao is 8 to 10 hours. There are a number of bus terminals in Cubao, Quezon City, that have buses bound for Iriga City, Legazpi City and Tabaco City. There are also bus terminals in Pasay City, near Pasay Rotonda.
By Train:
The PNR has a regular train schedule for the Manila-Ligao City route. The train departs at Tutuban Station in Manila every 6pm and 8:30pm and arrives at Ligao City at around 6am the next day. Ride the train and get off at Baao. The last station is Ligao City station which is 45 minutes away from Iriga City so be sure to get off at Baao. The usual travel time is 10 to 12 hours.
PHYSICAL PROFILE OF BAAO
Location
Political Composition
The thirty (30) barangays of Baao are distributed as follows: ten (10) in the Poblacion, seven (7) in the Sub Urban Areas, twelve (12) in the mountainous portions and one (1) in the low lying portion of the municipality.Land Area
The total land area of Baao consists of 14,304 has. 50% of which or a sub-total of 7,152 hectares is located along mountainous terrain and rolling hills with an average slope of 3.18%. Of the total 7,152 hectares of upland terrain, about 4,014 hactares have a slope of more than 18%. Ideally, the geographical elevation is suited for a Forest reserve. There are however, no existing forest resources in Baao. A subtotal of 4,291 hectares or 30% of the total land area is practically plain, 1,430 hectares or 10% are built-up areas and the remaining 10% are bodies of water including lakes and marshy terrain.Language
Rinconada Bikol is the main language of the population. Tagalog and English are also spoken in formal gatherings and occasions.
Religion
As one of the historical towns of Catholicism in the Bicol region, Baao has a majority of Roman Catholic adherents. Iglesia Ni Cristo on the other hand is the second largest group with a very fast phase of growing membership. Islam has already set off in the town and they are composed of Muslim merchants/immigrants from Mindanao. Various Protestants religions are also present.
BAAO TERRITORY
Due to the frequent inundation and to keep pace with population growth the site was moved further
southeast, in the confluence of Bay and Langday steams, at approximately what are now the barrios of San Francisco, San Jose, and San Roque, and from these spots spreading North, East and South to form the present municipal territorial jurisdiction which is bounded on the North by the Pawili River, on the East by an imaginary lIne running roughly North to South from the sources of the Pawili, on the old site of the defunct town of Mabato- bato, to the sources of the Waras River, and on the West by stone landmarks of early Spanish date following a straight line from Baras on the Waras River to Baao Lake. At the Northwest, the boundary with Bula is the Hararom na Cale, beyond the Agdangan Creek.
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
The municipality of Baao is within the 5th Congressional District of the province of Camarines Sur. It is
geographically located at coordinates of 123 30’ longitudes and 13 30’ latitude. This town is bounded on the North by the municipality of Pili and Ocampo limited by the Pawili River and now by the disputed area, the Union Agricula y Pecuaria; on the South by the municipality of Nabua; on the East by the municipality of Sagñay and now by the disputed area which is the City of Iriga; on the West by the municipality of Bula; all of in the province of Camarines Sur limited by the Bicol River Baao, Camarines Sur. Approximately 480 km. south of Metro Manila, 30 kms. south of Naga City, a close neighbor of the City of Iriga 7.5 kms and 70 kms. north of Legaspi City, the regional center of the Bicol Region. Accesible only by land transportation, it is along the main route of the Maharlika Highway and the PNR, the average travel from Manila is 10-12 hours.
TOPOGRAPHY
The municipality of Baao, Camarines Sur consists of mixture of topographic relief. The northern portion
which is approximately 60% of the town’s total land area or 8,582 has. are hilly and mountainous. The central and western areas have gently sloping reliefs which cover 20% of municipality land area or 2,680 has. have nearly level to level terrain where the residential, commercial, institutional establishment can be found as well as the lowland rice fileds, fishponds and lake are located. The lowland rice field, fishponds and the lakes are located within the flood prone area of this municipality.
CLIMATE
This municipality falls under the 3rd type of climate with no pronounce seasons, relatively wet from the
month of May to October and dry rest of the year. Maximum rain periods are from July to October, while dryOffice File - MPDC seasons last from January to March. This area is partly sheltered from the northwest monsoon or at least two frequent storms. During dry season, temperature rises up to 38 degrees Fahrenheit, thereby causing creeks and rivers to dry-up and during rainy days the creeks, river and the lakes swell, whereby causing the rice fields in the lowland area including the town proper, dumpy and flooded. The general direction of winds in this area are from the east to west in the month of December to February, south to west from March to August, then north-west during the month of September, October and November.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Baao is a first class municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 54,971 people.
The municipality of Baao is within the 5th Congressional District of the province of Camarines Sur. The town is bounded on the north by the municipalities of Pili and Ocampo, on the east by the city of Iriga, on the west by Bula and south by the municipalityNabua. The town is approximately 480 kilometres (300 mi) south-east of Metro Manila, 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Naga City, 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) west of Iriga City, and 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Legazpi City.
BRIEF SOCIO ECONOMIC PROFILE OF
THE MUNICIPALITY OF BAAO AS OF 2010
I. HISTORICAL PROFILE
ORIGINS
Baao, land of rice and coconut palm, art and pretty women, early cradle of Catholicism in Camarines Sur, has had a colorful history whose early period and pre-Spanish beginnings are lost in the mists of fable, legend and mystery. Its written history which antedated the Spanish conquest and preserved in native scripts of the ancient Malay characters and alphabet, was destroyed by the Missionaries who regarded them as works of Satan. Only the history which began to be written by the Spaniards themselves, friar or functionary, some travelers, as well as a rare number of natives, have been preserved as the foundation and origin of local written history. Tradition says that Baao earned its name from its turtle-shaped ancient site of Binabaloy, Binanuaanan and Layoan where the Spaniards found the early Baao folk which then formed part of the adjacent town of Bula. Baao or “Bao” is supposed to derive from the turtle itself due to the abundance in the vicinity of turtles, especially during floods. A part of the municipality and curacy of Bula, one of the several oldest towns of the province, Baao’s political affairs were first separated from those of Bula at the turn of the 17th century , later to be followed by a separation in ecclesiastical affairs to form early in the 18th century a new independent pueblo. Due to floods, the old site was moved farther south where the Bay and the Langday streams meet on their way to Baao Lake; where the driller for a new ground well or the workers digging posts for a new house are often astounded to excavate human skulls and bones and bits of ancient Chinese porcelain of the Yuan or Ming dynasty which was popular with the Filipinos in Spanish and pre-Spanish times, and often buried with the dead. Houses kept moving southward seeking higher levels, and a less damp climate. The town as constituted consisted of only a few hundred inhabitants as may be judged by the fact that in the earliest baptismal records, there were only two or three baptisms every week or forth night. From 1787 to 1800, only 1,439 births were recorded for this period of 13 years, or an average of 110 yearly. The years 1796 to 1800 showed only 221 deaths, or an average death rate of 55 persons per year. Marriages averaged 8 or lower for the same period. Another circumstantial evidence of the number of its early inhabitants may be interfered from the memorials, reports and accounts of early Spanish officials and missionaries and from travelers and visitors, the most famous of the former being Father Jose Castaño, a Spanish friar and parish curate of the town for some time until the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution, and much admired and loved for his unusually democratic ways and modern outlook judged by the standards prevailing during that dark historic period.
THE LEGEND OF THE NAME BAAO
Little known about the exact origin of the name BAAO, except for the fragment of history that were
compiled from the sporadic sources combined with the tales and legends cultured by the transfer of tongues from generation to generation, the municipality of Baao attributed its name only from speculative origins. One such theory is that its name evolves from the word BA-OO which means “turtle” in the local dialect. It is said that the native turtle was excessively abundant in the early settlement site and that for the purpose of geographic referencing the Spaniards designated the place as BAAO, a close resemblance to the word BA-OO, probably because the foreign tongue found it difficult to pronounce. Another theory relates its significance to the topography of the early sites of the site of the poblacion center which is sitio Binanwaanan. This southern bank of the lake Baao when viewed at the vantage point in the mountain ranges reveals a concave shape. With its arable
fields, cris-crossed with dikes and ditches, it closely resembles the back of the turtle, hence the reference to Ba-oo that meted off the present day name BAAO. Still another theory take into account a remote possibility that the name Baao evolved from the manifest disposition of eating left over rice from previous meal. The natives that time and even now relish from what they call “Bawow” which means “Bahaw” or not hot in Bicol dialect. What really isOffice File - MPDC the basis of its name remains in doubt and mystery, nurtured by times and events. Only the wave time can ebb seashore and unearth the exact origin of its name. Credence is attributed heavily in the legends and myths that made Baao known to present day.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
MUNICIPALITY
INDUSTRIES
industries which constitute Baao’s main money – crops today, were not as important as hemp, rice, fishing, lumbering and weaving comprised as today the main pattern of her economic effort. In the old days, Baao’s cloth was well known in the province but now its pre-eminence in this field has been replaced by bigger, more bustling towns. More declined due to the competition also of foreign cotton, wool, and silk textiles, but during the Japanese occupation it received a tremendous, artificial if temporary stimulation. On the other hand, from a minor industry, copra-making and hemp-string have been stimulated by the American free market, to become by far the leading local industries.
Fiestas and festivals
The town fiesta (Feast of St. Bartolomew) or "Pintakasi" of Baao is celebrated from August 23 to 25. The only festival at Baao is the Barlin Festival; it commemorates the birthday of the First Filipino Bishop, Jorge I. Barlin. It is celebrated annually during the month of April.
Harvest Festival at Baao
Economy
Baao is the biggest egg-producing town in the region.
Barangays
Baao is politically subdivided into 30 barangays
- Agdangan Pob. (San Cayetano)
- Antipolo
- Bagumbayan
- Cristo Rey
- Del Pilar
- Del Rosario (Pob.)
- Iyagan
- La Medalla
- Caranday (La Purisima)
- Lourdes
- Nababarera
- Sagrada
- Salvacion
- San Antonio (Buluang)
- San Francisco (Pob.)
- San Isidro (Oras)
- San Jose (Pob.)
- San Juan
- San Nicolas (Pob.)
- San Rafael (Ikpan)
- Pugay (San Rafael/San Jose)
- San Ramon (Pob.)
- San Roque (Pob.)
- San Vicente
- Santa Cruz (Pob.)
- Santa Eulalia
- Santa Isabel
- Santa Teresa (Vega)
- Santa Teresita (Tara-tara)
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