Pozorrubio

Pozorrubio
Municipality
Municipality of Pozorrubio
Plaza with Municipal Hall in background
Seal
Map of Pangasinan with Pozorrubio highlighted
show OpenStreetMap Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap
Pozorrubio Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 16°07′N 120°33′E / 16.12°N 120.55°E / 16.12; 120.55Coordinates: 16°07′N 120°33′E / 16.12°N 120.55°E / 16.12; 120.55
Country	Philippines
Region	Ilocos Region
Province	Pangasinan
District	5th district
Founded	January 13, 1870
Barangays	34 (see Barangays)
Government  [1]
• Type	Sangguniang Bayan
• Mayor	Emma Zosima T. Chan
• Vice Mayor	Ernesto Snooky B. Salcedo III
• Representative	Ramon V. Guico III
• Municipal Council	show Members Miguel A. Abalos Jr. Maximiano R. Balelo Rodrigo T. Villanueva Mark Lee P. Francisco Melecio A. Salcedo Jr. Jovito E. Estaris Jr. Diomedes T. Cariño Lester M. Bermudez
• Electorate	47,659 voters (2019)
Area [2]
• Total	134.60 km2 (51.97 sq mi)
Elevation	69 m (226 ft)
Highest elevation	588 m (1,929 ft)
Lowest elevation	24 m (79 ft)
Population  (2020 census) [3]
• Total	74,729
• Density	560/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
• Households	15,789
Economy
• Income class	1st municipal income class
• Poverty incidence	10.16% (2015)[4]
• Revenue	₱171,000,368.15 (2016)
Service provider
• Electricity	Pangasinan 3 Electric Cooperative (PANELCO 3)
Time zone	UTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code	2435
PSGC	015530000
IDD : area code	+63 (0)75
Climate type	tropical monsoon climate
Native languages	Pangasinan Ilocano Tagalog
Website	www.pozorrubio.ph

Pozorrubio, officially the Municipality of Pozorrubio (Pangasinan: Baley na Pozorrubio; Ilocano: Ili ti Pozorrubio; Tagalog: Bayan ng Pozorrubio), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 74,729 people. ^[3]

Often the town's name is mistakenly written as Pozzorubio but the correct spelling is Pozorrubio. Its land area is 8,965 hectares.^[5]

Pozorrubio is 199 kilometres (124 mi) from Manila and is 60 kilometres (37 mi) from the provincial capital, Lingayen.

Barangays[]

Pozorrubio is politically subdivided into 34 barangays.

Climate[]

Demographics[]

Population census of Pozorrubio

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1903	11,018	—
1918	15,391	+2.25%
1939	18,627	+0.91%
1948	21,675	+1.70%
1960	26,625	+1.73%
1970	33,006	+2.17%
1975	35,618	+1.54%
1980	38,257	+1.44%
1990	48,460	+2.39%
1995	52,378	+1.47%
2000	58,252	+2.30%
2007	63,689	+1.24%
2010	66,111	+1.37%
2015	69,555	+0.97%
2020	74,729	+1.42%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [7] [8] [9]

Economy[]

Poverty Incidence of Pozorrubio
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[10][11][12][13][14][15]

• Main crops: rice, sugarcane, tobacco, mango, vegetables and legumes, coconut, corn and cotton
• Cottage industries: bamboo and rattan products for exports, swords, knives, bolos, and other metal crafts
• Other industries: sand and gravel, concrete hollow blocks, leather craft, gold panning, fresh water fishponds, poultry and cattle raising

History[]

"Claris" or Pozorrubio became a Municipio on January 13, 1870. It was formerly a settlement and later a Barangay of San Jacinto, Pangasinan.

Wealthy landowners, Don Benito Magno, Domingo Aldana, Pedro Itliong, Bartolome Naniong, Bernardo Olarte, Pedro Salcedo, Juan Ancheta, Antonio Sabolboro, Jose Songcuan, Tobian Paragas, Francisco Callao and Baltazar Casiano y Salazar filed the June 19, 1868, Petition addressed to the Philippine Governor General de la Torre thru the Pangasinan "Alcalde Mayor" for conversion of Barrio Claris. The request was granted on November 3, 1869.^[16]

Parish Priest, another Dominican, Rev. Fr. Asencio and Lingayen Seňor Domingo Castro filed petitions to the Governor-General). The name Claris was derived from Juan dela Cruz Palaris, the leader of the 1762 Spain revolt of Binalatongan (San Carlos). Claris was named in honor of Palaris, king of Pangasinan. Father Asencio suggested Pozorrubio to honor Governor-General dela Torre alias Conde de Pozor-the Count of Pozor, adding RUBIO.

Don Benito, Sr. Domingo Castro, Don Domingo Aldana and DonAgustin Venezuela, proceeded to Manila by carruaje (stagecoach pulled by four horses) to deliver the second petition to the Queen of Spain was Isabel II, which was granted on August 13, 1868.

Santa Philomena became the Town's Patron Saint with the feast day of August 13. She is, as believed by her devotees within the Catholic Church, a young virgin martyr whose remains were discovered in 1802 in the Catacombs of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb bore an inscription that was taken to indicate that her name (in the Latin of the inscription) was Filumena, the English form of which is Philomena.

The remains were removed to Mugnano del Cardinale in 1805 and became the focus of widespread devotion, with several miracles credited to the saint's intercession, including the healing of Venerable Pauline Jaricot in 1835, which received wide publicity. Saint John Vianney attributed to her intercession the extraordinary cures that others attributed to himself.

The town's 12 intelligentsia formed the Communidad or Town Council (Tribunal or Presidencia, the Town Hall):

• Don Benito Magno
• Don Francisco Callao
• Don Protacio Venezuela
• Don Domingo Aldana
• Don Bartolome Naniong
• Don Jose Songcuan
• Don Tobias Paragas
• Don Bernanrdo Olarte
• Don Juan Ancheta
• Don Pedro Salcedo
• Don Pedro Itliong
• Don Antonio Sabaldoro

Don Benito Magono was elected on November 3, 1868, as first Gobernadorcillo on January 1, 1869, with seat of government at Barrio of Claris, now Barangay Amagbagan. Don Jose Sanchez and Don Agustin Venezuela donated the plaza lot.

San Jacinto Kura Paroko, Fr. Pablo Almazan appointed Dona Francisca Aldana-Magno, the wife of Don Benito, to teach in the only school set up in Claris. The town was relocated to Cablong. On December 18, 1880, Gobernadorcillo, Don Bernardo Olarte, inaugurated the new site with new Parish Priest, the Rev. Fr. Joaquin Gonzales, with a brand-new church and a kumbento.

The Japanese commandos in 1942 executed Attorney Filomeno G. Magno, the direct heirs of Don Benito Magno, 1st Gobernadorcilo and anak banus founder of Pozorrubio. Don Benito Estaris Magno's mother, Doňa Maria Estaris (Akolaw Inkew) was Benito's first teacher and his wife Doňa Francisca Aldana, was also a teacher in Claris. Don Benito organized a new town (independent from San Jacinto ) barrio Claris (now Barangay Amagbagan), in 1867. It included barangays Nantangalan, Maambal, Bantugan, Dilan, Malasin, and Talogtog.^[17]

On April 19, 2012, Oscar V. Cruz^[18] announced that the aswang (Philippine ghoul) believed to have appeared in Barangay Villegas, Pozorrubio was not true.^[19][20]

Local government[]

The chief executives of the town are Mayor Artemio Q. Chan and Vice Mayor Ernesto T. Go, with eight Sangguniang Bayan members or councilors who hold office at the Town Hall and Legislative Building's Session Hall.^[21]

Education[]

The town's prime school is the Benigno V Aldana National High School (BVANHS, formerly Pozorrubio High School).^[16]

• 29 elementary schools and 9 secondary schools
• St. Philomena's Academy - private
• University of Luzon – Pozorrubio
• Mary Help of Christians Learning Center Foundation Inc. - private
• Mary Help of Christians Boarding School Inc - private

Tourism[]

The town's interesting points and events include:

• Town Fiesta – January 11 (Pozorrubio 142rd^{[clarification needed]} Foundation Day & Town Fiesta Schedule of Activities)
• Patopat Festival – Frontage, Executive Building.^[22][23]
• Legislative Building and the municipal library.
• The Plaza pergola (Don Domingo M. Magno, 1930s with authentic marker, the colorful history of Pozorrubio)
• Plaza Park and Children's Park
• Pozorrubio-Iligan City Friendship Park
• Public Market
• Quibuar Springs, Guernica Hill

St. Jude Thaddeus Parish Church[]

The 1880 St. Jude Thaddeus Parish Church (Feast Day: October 28; Parish Priest: Father Teofilo L. Calicdan & Parochial Vicar: Father Christopher E. Sison) is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan,^[24] Roman Catholic Diocese of Urdaneta (Coordinates: 16°6'42"N 120°32'42"E).^{[25][26][27][28]}

The town and Parish were founded on March 12, 1834, by Fr. Domingo Naval, San Jacinto Vicar. The 1839–1842 ermita or Chapel amid the creation of Pozorrubio as Municipio on January 30, 1870, per Royal Decree of Governor General.

The Cablong (now the town proper) temporary parish was opened and the new church inaugurated on July 26, 1879, by Fr. Julian Lopez, San Jacinto Vicar, with the appointment on December 5, 1879, of Fr. Joaquin Gonzales (1879–1884) as Kura Paroko. Fr. Silvestre Fernandez (1887–1893) added the convent and the "escuelas" of "caton" and the old brick-walled cemetery. Mortae and ladrillo were used for house construction. Fr. Mariano Rodriguez (1893–1899) built a bigger bricks church (75.57 m long, 23 m 50 cm wide, walls of 4 m high, unfinished due to the Philippines-American War.

Fr. Lucilo Meris (1899–1925), first Filipino priest of Pozorrubio reduced the length of the Church to 42 m American Bombers destroyed the church and convent on January 7, 1945, and rebuilt by Fr. Emilio Cinense (1947–1952). Fr. Cinense, appointed Bishop, who founded the St.Philomena's Academy in 1948. Fr. Alfredo Cayabyab (1954–1967) reconstructed the Church.^[28] Fr. Primo Garcia and Fr. Arturo Aquino helped reconstructed the present church.^[29]

Gallery[]

• 

  Downtown

• 

  Sports and Civic Center

• 

  Town Hall

• 

  Jovellanos-Venezuela ancestral House^[17][30]

• 

  Park

References[]

• (Published work: "Awaran na Inletneg na Baley na Pozorrubio", 1940 by Atty. Filomeno G. Magno, Pozorrubio)

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pozorrubio.

• Pozorrubio Profile at PhilAtlas.com
• Municipal Profile at the National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines
• Pozorrubio at the Pangasinan Government Website
• Local Governance Performance Management System
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• Philippine Census Information
• Pozorrubio Online