LAND AREA AND BARANGAY (Continuation)

Land Area and Barangay (Continuation)

MAASIN   It accommodates the Palawan Palm and Vegetable Oil Nursery and the Municipal Agricultural Techno-Center

A Lady and a child watches the waterfall

MAINIT Situated in the north of Barangay Imulnod, the place is known for the Mainit Falls & Hot Spring.


MAMBALOT   From the pioneer settler, Mr. Mambalot, a muslim merchant and was considered a good leader of the community.


MALIS     The southern-most barangay of the municipality before the Municipality of Bataraza, in here you could find the Inkera Seven Falls.

ORING-ORING   The Pearl of Allah considered the biggest pearl in the world was found.




PANGOBILIAN   Where the two (2) big hospitals in the south and the tertiary school are located -Southern Palawan Provincial Hospital (SPPH) and Leoncio General Hospital (LGH) and the Palawan State University - Extramural Studies Center.

POBLACION I   Primarily a coastal barangay and with traces still of early settlements- The Lighthouse tower and the cemented water tank. In here, you could serenely watch sunrise at th seawall in front of the Public market and Brooke's Point Convention Center or the sunset at the port. Most of the residents depend on the sea for living.This is the smallest barangay of Brooke's Point with an area of 56.20 hectares or 0.07 percent of the total municipal land area.


POBLACION II   Alongside Poblacion I, this place is used to be planted with rice, corn and coconut. The place abound with fruit-bearing trees and was popular to bird and insect hunters. It was once a private property developed by the owners; Edwards, Ordinario and Moreno, into subdivisions providing a site not only for residentials but for the municipal center and other public institutions as well. This was later made a separate  barangay in 1972.

SALOGON          The name refers to the Sansalogon Trees growing indigenously in the place but had become endangered. Its bark and leaves were used as clothes by the natives then. A century-old Dau tree could still be found in the area.

SAMARINANA  Where the majority of the inhabitants then were from Samar, the place was established 
by virtue of R.A.3590 in 1955. Formerly a host to military detachment, the place was called Barrio Parakan then, a native term for "noisy" - the way the settlers from Samar conversed.

SARAZA              Bounded by Barangay Oring-oring in the northeast, Barangay Amas in the northwest and Barangay Samarinana in the south.


TUBTUB              From the Pala'wan  word Tabtab, which meanse "Spring of hope", derived from a spring on the hillside.

TOPOGRAPHY

                             Brooke's Point is about 40 kilometers in length and 20 kilometers width at its widest point. It is subdivided into Lowlands, the rolling and undulating central portion and the Uplands. The Upland area at the western part covers the Mt. Mantalingahan rangers that served as  the municipality's boundary with the Municipality of Jose Rizal.

CLIMATE

                            The municipality experiences a short dry season and has no pronounced rainy period during the rest of the year.

Land Area and Barangays

LAND AREA AND BARANGAYS

     The municipality covers a total land area of 85,064.90 hectares or 850.65 sq. kms. It represents the 5.71% of the total land area of Palawan.

     Brooke's Point is divided into 18 barabgays, 2 are urban - Poblacion I and Poblacion II, and 16 are still considered as rural - Amas, Aribungos, Barong-barong, Calasaguen, Imulnod, Ipilan, Maasin, Mainit, Mambalot, Malis, Oring-oring, Pangobilian, Salogon, Samarinan, Saraza and Tubtub.


     AMAS. Established in 1935, the place was named from Pesang Amas, a small, but delicious kind of banana. It was said that one day a muslim arrived in the area. He became a friend to Panglima that ruled a place then. In appreciation of the kindness, the muslim gave a Pesang Amas seedling to the Panglima. When it grew and bore fruit,, the inhabitants were delighted with its taste that Amas had been a byword.

                   Others believed that the place was called "Amas" from the Spanish word Amor, which means love or concern for the family and neighbor. To this day, Bayanihan, a communal spirit that holds them together in good and bad times, is very much practice in this place.


     ARIBUNGOS, Where you can find the Sabsaban Falls and the Mt. Calvary. The place was considered sacred by the natives in the old days.
                   It was said that, there lived a sibling - Uka Bakongo, the eldest, and Ari Bungos, the youngest. They were on hunting when a wild boar attacked them. As the eldest was calling in search of his brother "Ari Bungos, Ari Bungos", the surroundings echoed his call which was heard by a passerby. and as story goes, the place came to called Aribungos.

     BARONG-BARONG. Stories tell that many years ago, the place was a vast grassland of amorsico, which the early inhabitants called badong-badong.

     CALASAGUEN  Is the northern-most barangay of the municipality. It is the first barangay after the municipality of Sofronio Espanola. Occupying 14.25percent of the total land area, this is the largest barangay of Brooke's Point.

     IMULNOD Is known for its celebration of  the Lutlot Festival, in thanksgiving for abundant harvest. A native delicacy, lutlot is fancy rice boiled with coconut milk in buho.

      IPILAN. A thriving part of Barong-barong and Mambalot then, Ipilan was established by virtue of Congressional Act in 1961. The first settlers in the area were Palaw'anos, Muslims and Cuyunons.