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Brief History of Municipality of Pantabangan
Brief History of Municipality of Pantabangan
Brief History of Municipality of Pantabangan
Located in the northern part of Nueva Ecija, Pantabangan then was a small village at the foot of Mount Mabilog below Mount Dalimanok which are found between the Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountain ranges. The place was discovered on November 30, 1645 by Fr. Juan Alonzo de Abarca, an Augustinian priest who with the 29th Spanish mission i
Located in the northern part of Nueva Ecija, Pantabangan then was a small village at the foot of Mount Mabilog below Mount Dalimanok which are found between the Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountain ranges. The place was discovered on November 30, 1645 by Fr. Juan Alonzo de Abarca, an Augustinian priest who with the 29th Spanish mission in the Philippines.
The village grew into a settlement and was officially included in the map of the Philippines in 1747. In 1900, Pantabangan formally became a town.
In May 1966, the Old Philippine Congress passed the Upper Pampanga River Project Act (Republic Act 5499) authorizing the construction of the Pantabangan Dam and its appurtenant structures. The groundbreaking ceremony led by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos took place on June 11, 1971. The project was finally completed in August 1974.
The construction of the dam had great economic and social impact on the lives of Pantabangenos. About 8100 hectares of productive farmlands were submerged and the residents of the town proper (East and West Poblacion) and seven of its outlying barangays (Villarica, Liberty, Cadaclan, San Juan, Napon-Napon, Marikit and Conversion were relocated in nearby places which later formed to what is now known as the new Pantabangan town. They had to start their lives all over again in a place where the future is uncertain. They were left with no choice. Indeed, the Pantabangenos sacrificed so much – in the interest of national economic growth.
The Pantabangan Dam, the cleanest in the country and acclaimed as the second largest dam in Asia generates 112 megawatts of hydroelectric power and supplies the irrigation requirements of about 77,000 hectares of agricultural lands in Central Luzon.
In February 1996, the then President Fidel V. Ramos led the groundbreaking ceremony of the Casecnan Transbasin Project, a 27-kilometer underground tunnel from the Casecnan River in Nueva Vizcaya to a terminal point at the Pantabangan reservoir and was commissioned on December 11, 2001. The Project aims to augment the capacity of the Dam to irrigate an additional 50,000 hectares of agricultural land and generate an additional 140 megawatts of hydroelectric power for the Luzon grid.
The present Pantabangan town has 14 barangays and a total land area of about 42,784.8255 hectares. The succeeding years since its relocation saw its progress from a fifth class municipality in 1975, then to a fourth class, then to a second class municipality in 2006 and finally in July 2008, pursuant to Section 2 of the Department of Finance (DOF) Order No.23-08, Pantabangan was reclassified as a first class municipality, It is the only town in the Philippines which boasts of three hydroelectric plants within its territorial jurisdiction.
Mission
Brief History of Municipality of Pantabangan
Brief History of Municipality of Pantabangan
To Develop and promote Pantabangan as Renewable Energy center and attractive eco-tourism destination, strengthen the used of appropriate technology towards sustainable agriculture and ensure the efficiency of the local government machinery with the end view of increasing agricultural productivity, creating new more livelihood opportunitie
To Develop and promote Pantabangan as Renewable Energy center and attractive eco-tourism destination, strengthen the used of appropriate technology towards sustainable agriculture and ensure the efficiency of the local government machinery with the end view of increasing agricultural productivity, creating new more livelihood opportunities increasing family income, providing meaningful basic social services and ultimately improving the quality of life of all Pantabangeño.
Vision
Brief History of Municipality of Pantabangan
Vision
We envision Pantabangan to be the center of renewable energy in central luzon with God loving, healthy, self-reliant, peaceful and vigilant citizency who live in eco-tourism community, which is attractive, safe environment and globally competitive economy guided by decent and progressive leadership.