San Enrique is a 4th class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 28,655 people in 5,417 households.
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San Enrique is politically subdivided into 28 barangays.
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San Enrique was known by its name on May 24, 1881. Popularly called Bo. Bontok before this date, it was organized as a pueblo through the relentless of the rich influential residents namely: Capitanes Modesto Palabrica, Manuel Pama, and Apolinario Palabrica, together with an exbarrio teniente Simon Padios. It stood as a pueblo with its own streets and church, these roughly done in infrastructures was all solely done the Tawili System. Through the people’s cooperation, the rapid transportation of a once awkward barrio into a progressive and attractive poblacion was done overnight. Now, the changing of the name Bontok to San Enrique carried again another story. It was once the old folk’s tradition to have a patron saint in every pueblo. Hear says are quite uniform in stating that the act of choosing San Enrique to be the town’s patron saint was intentionally done; that is in honor of the incumbent Spanish Provincial Governor of Iloilo named San Enrique. However, it was found out that the act of making San Enriqueas to town’s patron saint could not be pushed through because of financial problems. The town was understood to have no fund yet to buy the image of the saint with its own expense. Hence, when a fellow named Simon Padios, offered the image of Virgo Maria, Auxilium Christianorum, the people gladly accepted the offer.
When the priest of Passi heard of the incident that Virgo Maria, Auxilium Christianorum would replace San Enrique as the patron saint of Bontok, he admonished the people by saying that the spirit of San Enrique would be displeased. The priest thus suggested that in order to appease the spirit of the saint, they should name pueblo Bontok as pueblo San Enrique. That put on record that the Municipality of San Enrique was first established in 1881 capable of self-government and determination.
There were eighteen (18) barrios that were included under the jurisdiction of San Enrique namely; Camiri, Paga, Compo, Rumagayray, Palje, Cabas-an, Tambunac, Garita, Mapili, Dumiles, Bantayan, Gines, Quinolpan, Abaca, San Antonio, Madarag, Dawatan and Catan-agan.
From 1881 to 1904 San Enrique enjoyed its independence as a municipality. When William Howard Taft howewver, became the first Civil American Governor General of the Philippines Island, he ordered the merging of the neighboring towns into one municipality, this was done for economic and political reasons. Passi was made the seat of the municipal government. That made San Enrique together with Dueñas and Calinog an "Arrabal of Passi".
After the Second World War, same prominent citizens of San Enrique, notably Jesus Prudente, Cenon Pama, Exequiel Garrido and Romulo Von Lallab prepared a petition for San Enrique’s petition from Passi.
The petition duly signed by the people was forwarded to the President on July 1, 1957 through Mariano E. Peñaflorida of Iloilo and hand carried by Congressman Jose Aldeguer. Executive Order No. 259, duly signed by his Excellency Carlos P. Garcia on July 12, 1957 recreated the Municipality of San Enrique in the province of Iloilo. POLITICAL SUBDIVISION A total of Twenty-Eight (28) barangays composed the Municipality of San Enrique.
Land Area
The Municipality of San Enrique has a total land area of 8,772 hectares.
Land Use / Cover
Out of the total land area of 8,772 hectares; 7572 hectares is devoted to Agriculture; 33.34 hectares in Industrial; 12 hectares in Commercial; 86 hectares in residential; 25 hectares in Institutional and 1,043.66 hectares in forest, rivers, marsh and swamps.
Status Classified Area Unclassified Area
Alienable & Disposable None None Timberland 1,000 hectares None
There are six mountains range that landmark the topography of this municipality to wit:
Standing on their own right, the queen of these mountains is Mount Cañapasan, which is noted for its panoramic surrounding area. Its highest skyline makes vertical lift of 569 meters sea level. Second highest mountain is Mt. Bayoso with 405 meters above sea level. Located in the eastern part of the Poblacion, the grandeur and splendor of its crest is the seat of the towering RCPI, SMART, PLDT and other relay stations.
Besides from the small mountain ranges mentioned above, hilly to rolling is the several slope of the land. With slightly rolling and marginal flat land that blighted its landscape, this is utilized for lowland farming.
Generally, the soil type distribution in this area regardless of the land classification is clay and loam. This dominant in any topographic area.
San Enrique has non-metallic mineral resources located at Bgy. Camiri and Rumagayray. So its resource potentials have no mineral reserves, mineral production and claimed mine land.
Mineral production
Despite the presence of non-metallic minerals like limestone in Rumagayray, some private individual is engaged in processing and a production of limestone. Yearly production of hydrated lime is very small in volume because limes produced only by using the crude of "Tutod" method and cannot compete with the others like in Guimaras Island. In Bgy. Camiri there’s also a non-metallic mineral resource for use in the making of pots, jars, etc. They used clay soil.
Population: As of 1995 the National Census and Statistics Office (NCSO) has registered a total household population of 25,572 from the municipality of San Enrique, this indicated an increase of 875 over the 1990 total population of 24,697.
Aside from the prevailing inhabitants of this municipality, the transient ethnic groups that frequent this place belongs to the cultural minority, the aetas or Negriteos. They are seasonally around during planting and harvesting of sugarcane.
The municipality of San Enrique is largely agricultural and majority of the population is engaged in farming. Social and economic undertaking of the town is centered on agriculture.
Every 24th of May, the Municipality of San Enrique celebrates its Municipal Patronal Fiesta and Corn Festival on the Second week of August.
The transmitters of RCPI, PLDT, SMART and other relay stations located at the peak of Mount Cañapasan. The Passi sugar (ILOILO) Sugar Central, Inc. in Bgy. Imbang Pequeño, San Enrique, Iloilo. Mini Park in Poblacion
Mount Puti-an, known with caves which is located at Bgy. Rumagayray and Bulabog National Park situated at the boundary of Dingle and San Enrique.
Mount Cañapasan, which has a panoramic surrounding area and the Talinab Spring at Bgy. Lip-ac, which is the source of water, supply in the Poblacion.
The type of existing roads in the municipality is the National Roads, Provincial Roads and the Municipal Roads. The National Roads are the San Enrique-San Rafael Road, the San Enrique-Garita Road and the San Enrique-Dingle Road, the San Enrique-Dueñas Road and the KABASAKA Road. The Municipal Roads consist of Municipal Streets and the Barangay Roads.
There are six major bridges and considerable meterage of overflows and box culverts. The different concrete bridges are located in different barangays. Asisig bridge at Bgy. Asisig with a total length of 45 LM. The bridge located in Imbesad-an is measured approximately 30 LM in length. Lictinon bridge at Bgy. Catan-agan is approximately 39 LM. Rumagayray Bridge is measured roughly about 30 LM in length and Paga Bridge with a length of 25 LM.
Since numerous shallow creeks in addition to bridges traverse the land surface of the town, overflows are constructed to supplement the road network. These overflows are usually a fill-up of boulders amalgamated with concrete and supplemented with reinforced concrete pipes serving as water under passage. During floods, water just overflow, since flooding of this creeks or rivers is usually of short duration, suspension of traffic during floods along these overflows is very temporary.
Some of the overflows can be found at Bgy. Abaca, Bgy. Cubay and Bgy. Lip-ac-Palje.
The 2010 elections in the municipality of San Enrique has been so famous because of the captured goons of Mayor Trixie Fernandez. A total of 17 persons on board three vehicles filled with assorted firearms will face charges for violations of the gun ban and illegal possession of firearms, according to Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) director, S/Supt. Rolando Gumban. The incident happened around 5 p.m. Monday in San Enrique, Iloilo where the convoy of San Enrique mayoral candidate Rolando Cordero and a group of vehicles composed of a Safari, Urvan and a pick-up met and had a deadlock at Barangay Garita of the said town.[1]
Gumban said the supporters of Cordero surrounded the vehicles, demanding that the vehicles be opened because they are carrying assorted firearms.[2]
The incident ended around 8:30 p.m. upon the arrival of Gumban who ordered that the vehicles escorted by police patrol cars be brought to the San Enrique Police Station.[3]
While at the police station, some 5,000 supporters of Cordero again encircled the three vehicles and demanded the same.
Gumban said the vehicles were opened and the 17 persons on board were escorted to the police station while the police found assorted firearms inside said vehicles.[4]
An inventory of the recoveries revealed two standard Armalites; two baby Armalites; two fragmentation grenades; two caliber .38 revolvers; four homemade shotguns; one rife grenade; seven Molotov bombs and assorted ammunition.[5] Those arrested were identified as:
After two-weeks they were released with a bail of almost 1.4 million pesos.
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