PROFILE OF BARANGAY SAN ROQUE, CAMALIGAN, CAM. SUR

SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF  BARANGAY SAN ROQUE, CAMALIGAN, CAM. SUR

By: Dominador N. Marcaida, Jr.,

SB, LGU-Camaligan

A. History:

Under the city of Nueva Caceres civil administration of the Philippine Spanish era, the place was formerly a part of barangay Sta. Cruz, Naga City. The street linking Barangay San Roque to Naga was then called Calle San Bonifacio (now the provincial road from Camaligan poblacion to Abella, Naga City). 

During the American Period, in the early 1900s, an hermita made of hamorawon posts, nipa roofing and sawali walling was already found at the present site. This hermita may have been placed under the tutelage of St. Roche by the former Camaligan curates after the establishment of the parish in 1895. The roofing of the hermita was changed to corrugated galvanized iron in 1945, after the American liberation. The hermita served as meeting place for all barangay activities, both religious and civic. At the hermita, residents usually conducted their yearly fiesta on the 16^th of the month of August, the Sta. Krusan and auroras in the months of May and June. The teniente del barrio supervised both these activities in his barangay. As cabo of the yearly fiesta, the teniente del barrio was being changed every year during the yearly fiesta.

According to our informant, the former school teacher Bernardo de la Cruz, born in 1940, the following residents served as teniente del barrio from 1945 to the present: Luis Cambaling, (1945), Arsenio Alipante, a certain Cuadrante who was the father of US Army man Dominador Cuadrante, a certain Laurente, Digno Bonafe, Tomas de la Cruz (father of our informant), Filemon Eduardo, Valeriano San Lorenzo, Venancio Alcantara Sr. (1960), Ernesto San Miguel (the incumbent punong barangay’s uncle, 1962), Antonio Perez (1963), Jose Perez (1964-1994), Juanito Enciso (1994-2007), and Yolanda F. San Miguel  (incumbent, from 2007 to the present). Until after the construction of the present barangay hall, the tenientes del barrio, or barangay captains, usually held governmental functions in their respective residences in the absence of a barangay government center.

Most lands in the barangay, be they residential or farm lands, were owned by some prominent residents of the barangay.

In the northeastern part, landed residents included Martin de la Cruz, Domingo Abina, Felix Fuenteballa, Francisco Cajade, Luis Cambaling, and Marcelo Medrano.

In the eastern portion of the barangay, property owners included Tomas de la Cruz (present Brillantes, Fulgentes and Valenciano compounds), and Inocentes Francisco.

The site of the present chapel was donated to the barrio by Inocentes Francisco, its previous land owner.  The present school and barangay hall sites were also donated to the barangay by their previous owners, Florentino Francisco, Alejandro Jacob, Arsenio Alipante, Marcelo Medrano, and Lino San Juan. 

The present South Star Drug property was originally owned by the Tolentino’s of Abella, Naga City. In 1960, this was bought by the Chinese spouses Tomas Macao and Magadalena Dy from a certain Maria Echevarria.

The southern portion of the barangay, the lands formerly known as “Wakat” at the bank of the Bicol River that extended from Sabang, Naga City to the present Pante compound, was owned by Salvador Pante and by Nicolas Acayen.

The western portion of the barangay entering the poblacion of Camaligan, the former land owners were Florentino Francisco, who sold to Pedro Marquez  the property being now used as a Camaligan Fish Hatchery by Augusto Enrile Tycanco. The Kalayan site was formerly owned by the spouses Arsenio Alipante and Maria San Lorenzo. The former lumber yard, now being used as cell sites, were owned by Pedro Savador who gave it to her daughter, Socorro.

The San Lorenzos of San Roque, Camaligan may have descended from their ancestors Mariano Lumbria and Mathea Candelaria.

            Mariano Lumbria, married Mathea Candelaria, begot Calistro (married to Manuela Dominga Candelaria) and Antonio (married Maria Dominga).

            Calistro Lumbria begot Francisco Lumbria who married Luisa Lumbria and begot Vicenta Lumbria who was married twice: first marriage was to Regino Dagpa who begot Gregoria Dagpa [married to Brigido Abad (son of Evaristo Abad and Petrona Aligasin) who begot Placido Dagpa  (b. 1885)], and Maria Dagpa (married to Manuel Francisco (son of Gregorio Francisco and Pasquala de la Concepcion) and begot Sabino Francisco (b. 1887); second marriage was to Mariano Felisardo Dagpa, who begot Jafa (b. 1848)  and Cayetano (married to Juana Mateo Lorenzo (the daughter of Nazario Mateo Lorenzo and Raymunda de la Concepcion), and begot Macario San Lorenzo Dagpa (married to Encarnacion Blas of Tarosanan), Sergia (born 1887), and Joaquin San Lorenzo Dagpa (b. 1884) who married Aquilina Alden who begot Agapito, Maria (married to Arsenio Alipante), Basilisa, Eugenia, and Jesus San Lorenzo.

            Jesus San Lorenzo was married twice:  first marriage was to Iluminada Marsical and begot Teresita (married to Pemeniano), Zenaida (married to Ofelio Auro), Romeo, and Sergio (married to Feliciana Cordial); second marriage was with Gorgonia de la Concepcion and begot Hermita, Norma, and Jesus San Lorenzo Jr.

            Antonio Lumbria, Mariano’s second son, married Maria Dominga and begot Petrona (married to Aguido de los Santos, the son of Antonio de los Santos and Portacia Ago Hipolito) and begot Laureano (b. 1873), Pascual (married to Flora Bermudo (daughter of Alberto Bermudo and Valentina Candelaria) and begot Quiterio (b. 1873).

            Other San Lorenzos of San Roque were Isidro San Lorenzo who was married to Sofia Albino (sister of Lucia Albino who was married to Teofilo Alparan). 

            Isidro San Lorenzo, married to Sofia Albino, had the following descendants: Valeriano (married to Concordia Cambaling, daughter of Flaviano Cambaling); Simeon (married to Adoracion of Hondagua, Quezon); Julita (married to Florencio del Rosario of Tinago, Naga City); and Regino (married a certain Irene of Calauag, Quezon).

The northwestern portion of the barangay were previously owned by the spouses Senon Alden and Josefa Agonia (the half-sister of Paula Enciso de la Cruz, mother of the informant).  This property is now the present Chaneco compound. Adjacent to this place was also the property of Eulalia Fuentebella, consisting of almost a hectare of rice lands.

According to another informant, Jaime San Miguel, the San Miguel Clan of San Roque originated with the spouses Juan San Miguel and Maria Buing. The couple begot the following children: Alejandro [married to Magdalena Gomez begot the children Juan (single), Josefina (married to Jose), Domingo, Felipe (sinlge), Marta, Susan, Angelina and Danilo], Eugenio [begot the following children: Felipe (married to Concepcion Alipar), Beata (married to Leoncio Alforte) and Quirico], Sostenes [Married to Carolina Francisco begot Virginia (married to Paciano Navario), Joventino (married to Norma Rivera), Rizalino (married to Cora Pio), Roberto (married to Mrilyn), George (single), and Yolanda (single), the present Punong Barangay of San Roque, Camaligan]; Primo (married to Amparo); Ernesto [married to Wilfreda Mitra begot Jaime (married to Isabelita Perez), Abelardo (married to Leonila Magistrado), Corazon (married to Isagani Realubit), Romeo (married to Marilyn), Cesar (married to Marilou), Juan (married to Erlinda Oseal, Melba (married to Angelo Bonafe), Fatima (married Anthony An), Ernesto Jr. (married to Girlie), and Elenor (single); and Francisco (married to Aurora Saño begot Boboy and Jingjing).  

The means of livelihood of the residents before consisted of rice and vegetable farming, since, in the early 1940s, almost 90 percent of the barangay were rice lands. There were some residents who engaged in small-scale fishing in the nearby Bicol River.

There were also resident who were engaged in the transportation business. They owned and operated “karetelas.” The names of these residents were: Nicolas Acayen, Arsenio Alipante, Tomas Medrano and Marcelo Medrano, Tomas de la Cruz, Inocentes Francisco and Diosdado Inocentes (from Tinambac). However, in the early days most residents would travel by foot in going to and from Naga City, with their wares or goods. Seldom did they travel by boat via the Bicol River.

During the Japanese occupation, many residents fled to nearby towns to escape the atrocities of the invading forces. Our first informant said that his family and six other families evacuated to Mangayawan by big boats (with a capacity 25 cavans each). There they made “puto tablas” which they sold to residents of nearby barangays and even to Naga City. Other residents evacuated to as far as Minalabac and Taisan, Bula, in this province of Camarines Sur.

One home industry which the barangay was then famous for in the 1950s and even  late ‘70s was the dirty ice cream made and sold by Gregorio Alis. Gregorio married the daughter of Loreto Babar, a former US Army man. Besides ice cream, the barangay was also famous for its tinapas (smoked fish), which residents sold in sidewalks at Naga City or rationed to houses. Many residents find vending and merchandizing as their way of living. One resident who provided for the needs of their children all throughout by buying-and-selling wares and dry goods from town to town were the parents of former barangay captains Antonio and Jose Perez, the spouses Vicente Perez and Maxima Salvador.

In the early 1950’s, electricity reached the barangay from Naga City which was being supplied by the Bicol Electric Company (BEC). From this barangay, the rest of the town of Camaligan was energized.

The increase in population from the original number of residents since after the creation of the barangay was attributable to the spill-over population coming from Naga City due to periodic demolitions of squatters in the city, and also the influx of trawlers from other parts of the Bicol Region who found employment in the local fishing industry in Camaligan.

B. Demographic Profile:

Barangay San Roque has a total population of 2,214 individuals, distributed among 699 households or families, in eight zones. It has a total land area of 37.9795 hectares, with a present actual land use of 41,071 sq. meters for residential purposes; 13,420 sq. m. for commercial purposes, 1,967 for institutional/educational purposes, and 193,602.50 sq. meters for agricultural uses, out of which 22,534 sq. meters for rice production, 22,120 sq. meters for fishpond cultivation and 148,948.50 sq. meters as grassland or and vacant areas (there is no present numerical data for roads, bridges, creek, open spaces and institutional uses.)

            As to age distribution, there are 1,122 individuals for the age bracket of 0-17 years old; 629 individuals for the age bracket of 18-29 years old (youth); 1,163 individuals for the 30-65 years old (employable group); and 80 individuals belonging to the 65 years old and above (Senior Citizens), for total number of 2,214 individuals.

            As to gender distribution, male individuals are 1,149, and female individuals are 1,165.

            As to the number of electoral precincts, there are 11 precincts with a total of 1,664 registered voters.

C. Occupational Profile:

            As to occupation/employment distribution, the following table will show the number of individuals engaged in a particular occupation or employment:

D. Property profile of Barangay San Roque:

E. List of Household (Family) heads per zone: