Bauan

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Bauan

Municipality

Seal
Nickname(s): The Town that Refuses to Die

Map of Batangas showing the location of Bauan

Bauan

Location within the Philippines

Coordinates:

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Country

Philippines

Region

CALABARZON (Region IV-A)

Province

Batangas

District

2nd District

Founded

1838

Barangays

40

Government[1]
Mayor

Ryanh M. Dolor (Liberal Party)

Area[2]
Total

53.31 km2 (20.58 sq mi)

Population (2010)[3]
Total

81,351

Density

1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi)

Time zone

PST (UTC+8)

ZIP code

4201

Dialing code

43

Income class

1st class

Website

www.bauan.gov.ph

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Bauan (Filipino: Bayan ng Bauan, 'Town of Bauan') is a first class municipality in

the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 81,351
people.
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Contents
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1 Barangays

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1.1 Barangay extraterritoriality disputes

1.2 Notable Events

2 Demographics
3 Religious attribution and miracles
4 Famous people from Bauan
5 Further reading
6 References
7 External links

Barangays[edit]
Bauan is politically subdivided into 40 barangays. Barangay San Teodoro was created in 1953 from
the sitio of Pook ng Buhangin from Barrio Ilat and the sitio of Cupang from Barrio Gelerang
Kawayan. In 1954, the sitio of Jipit in the barrio of San Antonio was converted to the barrio of Sto.
Nio, while the sitio of Pook ni Banal in the Barrio of Malaking Pook was converted into the barrio of
Pook ni Banal. The next year, sitio Pinagcurusan in barrio Maricaban and sitio Pinagcurusan in
barrio Tingloy were constituted into barrio San Jose, while sitio Pirasan in barrio Payapa was
constituted into the barrio of San Juan. In 1956 portions of San Andres and Bolo were separated to
form the barrio of San Miguel. The next year, sitio Puting Buhangin of barrio Magalanggalang was
converted into barrio Orense.
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Alagao
Aplaya
As-Is
Bagong Silang
Baguilawa
Balayong
Barangay I (Pob.)
Barangay II (Pob.)
Barangay III (Pob.)
Barangay IV (Pob.)
Bolo
Colvo
Cupang
Durungao
Gulibay
Inicbulan
Locloc
Magalang-Galang
Malindig
Manalupang
Manghinao Proper
Manghinao Uno

New Danglayan
Orense
Pitugo
Rizal
Sampaguita
San Agustin
San Andres Proper
San Andres Uno
San Diego
San Miguel
San Pablo
San Pedro
San Roque
San Teodoro
San Vicente
Santa Maria
Santo Domingo
Sinala

Barangay extraterritoriality disputes[edit]

Global Marine System's territory is part of Barangay San Roque. It is an enclave within Barangay
San Andres 1. Notably, ICTSI's Bauan International Port disputes the boundary of Barangay San
Andres 1 and San Roque, due to some land of ICTSI is actually inside San Andres 1. This is verified
by residents of the Ilaya part of San Andres 1. Currently, residents do not know the location of the
boundary between the two barangays.
[citation needed]

Notable Events[edit]
A tugboat was sunk on November 8, 2013 near Aplaya, Bauan, Batangas during Typhoon Haiyan
killing 1 out of 8 crewmen on board.
On June 3, 2011, a hailstorm tornado devastated Bauan and its nearby municipalities such as, San
Pascual, Taal, etc.

Demographics[edit]
Population census of Bauan

Year

Pop.

% p.a.

1990

59,258

1995

64,190

+1.51%

2000

72,604

+2.68%

2007

79,831

+1.32%

2010

81,351

+0.69%

Source: National Statistics Office[3]

Religious attribution and miracles[edit]

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Bauan's main Catholic Church

Main article: Bauan Church

The mission of Bauan was founded as a visita of Taal in 1590. It was administered by
the Augustinians from 1596 and onwards when the first church was built at the slope of Mt. Maculot
along the southern shores of the Taal Lake until the end of the 19th century. Another church was
built in 1667 probably under the supervision of Fr. Jose Rodriguez (OSA) when it was relocated to
Durungao. The church was again relocated in Lonal (or Loual) in 1671 by Fr. Nicolas de Rivera
(OSA) who probably had a new structure built. The last relocation was in 1692 (or 1690) in its
present site during the administration of Fr. Simon Martinez (OSA) who probably had a new church
built that was damaged during the typhoon of 1694. Fr. Ignacio Mercado (OSA) had this rebuilt from
1695 to 1697. The church again suffered damages and was replaced by a stone structure during the
administration of Fr. Blas Vidal (OSA) from 1700 to 1710. Fr. Jose Vitoria (OSA) who also introduced
the cultivation of indigo in Bauan initiated building the present church in 1762 that was continued
until 1856 during the administrations of Fr. Jose Trevino (OSA) and Fr. Hipolito Huerta (OSA). It was
completed under the supervision of Fr. Felipe Bravo (OSA) in 1881. From there until 1894, final
decorations were supervised by Fr. Moises Santos (OSA) and Fr. Felipe Garcia (OSA). The church
is said to be the most artistically built in the province of Batangas during that time. Father Bravo was
also an imminent botanist who put up a museum of natural history and collected rare books that
were lost when the church was razed by fire during the Philippine revolution against Spain in 1898.
The church was probably rebuilt and again destroyed by fire in 1938. It has been restored since
then.
Five years after the establishment of the ecclesiastical mission of Bauan, a giant cross made
of anubing, a local hardwood was found in a dingin (a place of worship) near the town
of Alitagtag that was said to have protected people of Bauan from pestilence, locusts, droughts,
volcanic eruptions, and Moro raids. Based on a document found in the Bauan Cathedral Archives in
1790, Castro y Amoedo stated that the cross was made in 1595 from a very strong post of a
demolished house and erected in the village of Alitagtag to drive away a plague of ghosts. The cross
was described as 2.5 meters in height with a 1 meter crosspiece. It featured a golden sun embossed

with a human face with radiating rays where the arms intersect (shades of anito worship). The cross
was also said to walk around the village (perhaps while driving away the ghosts) and that water
gushed from one of its arms.
The miracles attributed to the cross attracted many devotees and a decision was made to move it to
the bigger Bauan parish church. However, one priest tried to bring the cross to his church in the
capital town of Taal but was prevented from doing so when "the sky became cloudy, and it began to
thunder and emit dreadful lightning bolts". Before its enshrinement in Bauan however, the cross has
decreased in size because devotees has chipped away pieces of the cross that were made into
miniature replicas and were worn as necklace talismans. A Fr. Manuel de Zamora was also reported
to have cut more than 1/3 from the foot of the cross (that were perhaps made into more miniature
replicas) and distributed in Manila where a number of miracles were reported. What was left is what
is being venerated today in the Bauan church.
The town, the church, and the cross were later moved to a place called Dungarao to escape the
violent eruptions of Taal Volcano, then to Loual (or Lonal), in an unidentified place in 1689, and
finally to its present site near the sea in 1690 or probably 1692. Today, the people of Bauan pay
homage to the cross by dancing the Subli. It is said that theSubli preceded Christianity in
the Philippines and is in fact even pre-Spanish era's religious ritual. People still go the dingin or
sambahan (where the cross was first erected) to pray.

Famous people from Bauan[edit]

Associate Justice Cecilia Muoz Palma. She is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the Philippines and former President of the 1987 Constitutional Convention.
Executive Judge Voltaire Ylagan Rosales. Judge Rosales was an incorruptible judge that fought
drug dealers while holding dear to his principles to uphold justice and to protect the poor and
helpless. He has been recognized by different organizations around the Philippines, including
the Ateneo de Manila University and the De La Salle University for his courageous battle against
criminality.