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Baras |
Barangay Baras is among urban barangays of Canaman. It is situated on the easternmost and highest part of the municipality and is located on the east of Dinaga. Baras is composed of seven (7) purok or zones. It is bounded on the north by the municipality of Magarao, on the east by the city of Naga, on the south by barangay San Agustin and on the northwest by Sta. Cruz. Together with barangay San Agustin and Haring, it is located along the Philippine National Highway. In the 2007 census, it had a population of 2,311.It has an aggregate area of 174 hectares or 4% of the total land area of the municipality. Based from the 2009 Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) survey results, Baras has 616 households with a total population of 2,579 or an average household size of 4. Saint Anthony of Padua is its patron saint which festivity falls on June 13.Baras as seen from Google Maps (click image to enlarge)HistoryCanaman native historian Danilo M. Gerona declares in Canaman Through Four Centuries (2008), the barangay's name came from an ancient Bikol word for a heap of palay accumulated during threshing. One version, according to Jose V. Barrameda in Canaman Through the Centuries (1982) is that it got its name from trunks of Calophyllum inophyllum tree, locally called palo maria, cut into bars or varas in Spanish. Third version as claimed by the locals, Baras is a contraction of "barang." According to Barrameda, the place was the first one glimpsed or discerned from Nueva Caceres, as the result of the massive tree cutting ordered by the colonizers when they attempted to transfer the town center and the original church from Poro to the locality in the 1600s.Before 1780s, Baras was a visita along with Poro, Talidtid and Taculod. It was the gateway of the town to the city of Nueva Caceres. The emergence of these visitas was mainly due to the expansion of farmland around the cabecera. Gerona told, unlike Poro, Baras had
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Baras |
Barangay Baras is among urban barangays of Canaman. It is situated on the easternmost and highest part of the municipality and is located on the east of Dinaga. Baras is composed of seven (7) purok or zones. It is bounded on the north by the municipality of Magarao, on the east by the city of Naga, on the south by barangay San Agustin and on the northwest by Sta. Cruz. Together with barangay San Agustin and Haring, it is located along the Philippine National Highway. In the 2007 census, it had a population of 2,311.It has an aggregate area of 174 hectares or 4% of the total land area of the municipality. Based from the 2009 Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS) survey results, Baras has 616 households with a total population of 2,579 or an average household size of 4. Saint Anthony of Padua is its patron saint which festivity falls on June 13.Baras as seen from Google Maps (click image to enlarge)HistoryCanaman native historian Danilo M. Gerona declares in Canaman Through Four Centuries (2008), the barangay's name came from an ancient Bikol word for a heap of palay accumulated during threshing. One version, according to Jose V. Barrameda in Canaman Through the Centuries (1982) is that it got its name from trunks of Calophyllum inophyllum tree, locally called palo maria, cut into bars or varas in Spanish. Third version as claimed by the locals, Baras is a contraction of "barang." According to Barrameda, the place was the first one glimpsed or discerned from Nueva Caceres, as the result of the massive tree cutting ordered by the colonizers when they attempted to transfer the town center and the original church from Poro to the locality in the 1600s.Before 1780s, Baras was a visita along with Poro, Talidtid and Taculod. It was the gateway of the town to the city of Nueva Caceres. The emergence of these visitas was mainly due to the expansion of farmland around the cabecera. Gerona told, unlike Poro, Baras had