Barangay Officials

Development Thrust

Vision

            Barangay Bitalag is envisioned to be progressive, self-reliant and productive community with civilized, well informed and healthy society, who are peace loving, god fearing, participative and empowered governance, peaceful/crimefree society and Sustainable Clean and Green Environment.

Mission

To achieve our goals/vision we commit ourselves to:

To Implement Rules and Regulations.

Improve Peace and Order.

Promote active participation of the Barangay folks.

Promote quality and justice for all.

Political Information:

• Legal basis of creation N/A                             
• Date of Ratification/Plebiscite N/A                             
• of Registered Voters            719                             
• of Precincts       4   

Physical Information:

• Geographical Location

The Barangay Bitalag is more or less 3 kilometers from Centro/Poblacion bounded by the following barangays:

North               :           Barangay         Borono

South               :           Barangay         Lubnac

East                 :           Barangay         Baringcucurong, Suyo, Ilocos Sur

West                 :           Barangay         Libtong

• Type/Classification of Barangay:

Rural        __ Upland    Lowland   __ Coastal    Agricultural   __ Fishing    Commercial

_ Urban                                   __ Industrial   __________________ Others (specify)

• Total Land Area in hectares: 4773     

Residential                 :                  4.898       

Agricultural               :                 126.5015  

Commercial               :                 1.1

Others                        :                                  

Fiscal Information:

• Total Income                                                                                     Php 1,055,604.00

Internal Revenue Allotment                 Php 1,024,104.00

            Local Sources: RPT Share                  Php 14,000

Clearance & Certification Fees          Php 3,000

            Community Tax                                   Php 2,500

Permit Fees                                         Php 10,000

            Interest Income                                    ________

            Income from Grants and Donations   ________

            Miscellaneous Income                                     __                   

• Major Economic Activity

( 40 %)                       Farming                                 

(__ %)                        Fishing

(30 %)                        Business

( 30 %)                       Employed

(16 %)                        Construction

(30%)                         OFW

Demographic Information:

Population (Source:   / RBI based on 2013)  :  1374

Number of Male                                             :  690

Number of Female                                         :  684

TOTAL                                                         :  1374

Number of families                                         : 263

Number of Households                                  : 243

Number of Labor Force                                : 377

Number of Unemployed                                : 16

Religious Affiliations:

Roman Catholic                                  (90 %)

            Iglesia ni Cristo                                   (   %)

            Protestants                                         (  %)

            Baptist                                                 (  %)

            Jehovah Witnesses                               (  %)

            Islam                                                   (  %)

            Others Born Again                              (10%)

Basic Utilities/Services:

• Power Supply : ISECO ILOCOS SUR (Electric Cooperative)

                                     ____________________ Others

No. of Household with Access to Electricity

           243       (Electric Cooperative)

            ___________ Others

• Water Supply

No. of Families with Access to Potable Water

_____First                   _______ Number

      /    Second                  160     Number

_ _/___Third                     13    Number

• Means of Tranportation

Car, Jeep, Tricycle, Motorbike, Van

• Means of Communication: (telephone, mobile phones, indicate name of provider)

SMART , TNT, GLOBE, SUN, ADDICT MOBILE

Health Information/Data:

Brief History of the Barangay

It cannot be fully determined which is older – the famous Tagudin Sundial (erected in 1848) or the grand old man of Bitalag, Apo Marcos Dauz. But at about that time, Apo Dauz thought of pooling the resources of the small neighborhood where he was the leader for the purpose of constructing a well from which the people around the area could draw their drinking water.Spanish time as it was, diarrhea epidemics were frequent, and they had a way of attributing the disease with water just drawn from brooks, creeks and ricefields, hence the need for a safe water source. Under the able leadership of Apo Marcos, a 30-feet well was dug by the people.This was strengthened by Spanish bricks-radrilyo – as sidings. The well survived for more than two hundred years (200) as it sills exists up to this day. In the local dialect, the well is called “BITO”.

The“bito” served its purpose of providing water to the villagers. During critical times residents from surrounding villages of Libtong, Borono, and Baringcucurong also drew their drinking water from the “bito”. It is ten(10) meters away from Baringcucurong.

The small schoolhouse in the village with its spacious surroundings provided an appropriate venue for transactions, such as barter, exchange of horses and work animals, agreements, village meetings and similar activities where bilateral and collective arrangements were agreed upon. Agreement in the dialect is “TULAG”.

The two terms “BITO” and “TULAG” have become inseparable twin ideas inculcated in the minds of the villagers that their small neighborhood soon adopted the name “BITULAG” for their place. When the government thought of defining barrio boundaries and necessitated the assignment of names thereof, the then government recording clerk might have misheard the name for he entered in the official registry not Bitulag but Bitalag.

Another version states that Bitalag was established in the middle of the nineteenth century. It got its name from the following version. There was once a well (bito). Inside this well lived a big mudfish (dalag). So putting the two words together, it resulted to “bito-dalag”, hence the nameBitalag.

Bitalag is comprised of four sitios. (a) CURVA, meaning curve or junction. (b) PUROKEN, meaning group of houses. (c) BARONABID because the houses are located along both sides of the creek, and (d) CENTRO, where the schoolhouse is located.

During the Japanese occupation, Bitalag was called the “Fort Santiago of Ilocos Sur”. Several executions, and indescribable tortures inflicted by the ruthless soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Forces on many innocent Filipinos, men and women alike, took refuge here. After the liberation, the “War Vets” of the defunct USAFIP-NL constructed a monument of the unknown soldier. With the help of the Philippine Committee, this so-called landmark has inscriptions engraved on it.