Originally a part of Zambales and Pampanga, the municipality contains the Capas National Shrine an Obelisk with a central bell, which was built and is maintained by the Philippine government as a memorial to the Filipino and American soldiers who died in Camp O ' Donnell at Barangay Aranguren.

A barangay is headed by a Barangay Captain, who is also the presiding officer of the Barangay council ( Sangguniang Barangay ).

The Barangay Council is composed of seven Barangay Kagawads.

A similar unit called a Youth Council ( Sangguniang Kabataan ) is headed by an SK Chairperson with a similar rank to a Barangay KAGAWAD.

South of Bottomside was Barangay or Barrio San José ( near what was Navy Beach ); on the north is what was Army Dock, with its three large piers, and, east of Bottomside, is the Malinta Tunnel.

One of the more popular Passion plays is Ang Pagtaltal sa Balaan Bukid in Jordan, Guimaras, which began in 1975 and draws some 150, 000 visitors a year Some people perform crucifixions outside of Passion plays to fulfill a panata ( vow for a request or prayer granted ), such as the famous penitents in Barangay San Pedro Cutud, San Fernando, Pampanga.

The modern barangay is headed elected officials, the topmost being the Punong Barangay ( addressed as Kapitan ; also known as the Barangay Captain ).

The Kapitan is aided by the Sangguniang Barangay ( Barangay Council ) whose members, called Barangay Kagawad (" Councilors "), are also elected.

The Barangay Justice System or Katarungang Pambarangay is composed of members commonly known as " Lupon Tagapamayapa " ( Justice of the peace ).

Their function is to conciliate and mediate disputes at the Barangay level so as to avoid legal action and relieve the courts of docket congestion.

An example is Barangay Ginebra, the name of supporters of the Ginebra San Miguel basketball team.

A municipality is governed by a municipal mayor who is the executive officer, and a legislature which is the Municipal Council or Sangguniang Bayan and is composed of the vice-mayor ( bise-mayor ) who serves as chairman, eight councilors ( kagawad or konsehal ), the Sangguniang Kabataan ( SK ) or Youth Council chairman, and the Liga ng mga Barangay or League of Barangays chairman.

It is among the biggest producers of Rice and Sugarcane notably grown in Hacienda Luisita in Barangay San Miguel, Tarlac City which is owned by the Cojuangco Family.

Barangay Kaatuan is also home to eight ( 8 ) amazing conjoint water falls – seven ( 7 ) water falls pouring its contents onto another water falls.

Davide, known by ordinary folks as ‘ Noy Undo ’, was 101 years old when he died June 17, 2006 on the eve of Father ’ s Day in his home in Sitio Waling Waling, Barangay Capitol Site.

The USAFE Base A training site of USAFE under the supervision of Lt. Dominador Gaerland was established at Tangnonon, Barangay Fabrica at the ancestral home of Lopez Kabayao.

This home of the Virgen de la Paz hermit nuns sits on a cliff that overlooks the mangroves and marine sanctuary in Barangay Tangnan and offers an unobstructed view of the sea and the blue mountains of Cebu.

About 4km northern part of the town proper is the home of Barangay Vinisitahan, where another line of pristine beaches are there for you to visit.

The town of Goa is also the home of the premier high school in the whole Bicol region, the Philippine Science High School Bicol Region Campus at Barangay Tagontong.

It is primarily because the town is the home of Alvin Clemente, the bodybuilder from Barangay Tiaong who emerged as the champion in the 2007 World Super Bodies contest.

Saoquigue is a home of isdayog the fish and coconut capital of Barangay.

But because of out-migration arising from lack of job opportunities, it had gone down to 1. 86 % between the periods 1995 and 2000. Among the barangays, Victoria registered the highest growth rate at 6. 12 % due to in-migration, the area being home to the Surigao del Sur Polytechnic State College while Barangay Mercedes posted a negative growth (- 0. 28 %).

It is also the home of the Agus IV Hydroelectric Powerplant ( Located in Barangay Nangka ; 18 kilometers from Iligan City ).

Renato V. Malleta of Barangay Poblacion 9A is president of the Association of Barangay Captains.

Camiling became a District Commission from 1834 to 1837 founded by Don Francisco Soriano, the then Cabeza de Barangay who became the town's first District Commissioner.

The first if its kind outside the City of Iloilo, the said structure was funded through the help of then Congressman Fermin Carram, Jr., who gave financial support in the construction of the Leganes Maternity Clinic and Children ’ s Hospital, and the Association of Barangay Captains ( ABC ) Center at the Leganes Public Market.

Bahay Laguna is a museum in Barangay Bungkol, Magdalena, that houses the memorabilia of Governor Felicisimo T. San Luis, who served as Governor of Laguna province for 33 years.

It is composed of a Punong Barangay ( Barangay Captain / Chief ), a Sanguniang Barangay ( Barangay Council ) with seven ( 7 ) Barangay Kagawads ( Barangay Members ) who are all duly-elected by their constituents, and a Sangguniang Kabataan ( Youth Council ) Chairman afforded with full membership status in the Council after being duly-elected but only by the barangay's youth sector.

Barangay Marianos could be the very place where Datu bangkaya and his family lived together with the other Malay families who arrived with him.

Local officials of that town, Carmen, have been seeing to it that what happened in May 1945 – the bravery of those who fought the war and drove away the Japanese army then stationed in Barangay Ising – will not be forgotten.

Produced Dr. Felix Aguinaldo Sr. (†) as Municipal Mayor, having the longest term in the history of the town, his son Present Town Mayor Oscar D. Aguinaldo, and his grandsons Oscar Ryan Aguinaldo first elected SK chairman and Ex-Officio member of the Municipal Council of Pasuquin and Bheng Aguinaldo (†) who was elected as the youngest Barangay Chairman in Pasuquin, but died in a car accident before taking his oath of office, Maj. Severo Domingo, Former Municipal Board Member and his betterhalf Dr. Carmen Domingo (†), Former President of the Senior Citizen, and their son Dr. Polly Domingo, among others ).

; Cacandongan: Barangay Cacandongan got its name from the earliest settlers of this barangay who were known to be migrants from Candon, Ilocos Sur.

Thereafter, barangay Palisoc was named after the family name of particular person who owns most of the land wherein Barangay Palisoc exist.

Antonio Vallejo who voluntarily donated two hectares of land for the municipal hall and public market site, he also later donated the vast fertile land area of Jones Rural School and Jones North Central School hence the present site of Barangay I and II.

He is Jose ' Buding ' Segundo, now only a Barangay Captain, who desires to come back to the political scene after being defeated by the present Mayor, Agnes Diezmo-Ang.

Pambujan is originally founded in Barangay Genulgan ( also referred to as Binongtoan ) by Malays, particularly by the “ second wave migrants ” who arrived here from 100 A. D. To the 13th Century ( Zaide, Zaide: 29 ).

The Municipal Health Office is manned by the designated Officer-in-Charge who is at the same time its medical technologist, including other personnel like the DOH representative, public health nurse, rural sanitary inspector and midwives with the Barangay Health Workers and trained hilots as extension workers.

A Public Elementary School in Barangay Jagobiao, Mandaue City, Philippines ( inside Eversley Childs Sanitarium compound ) was also named after him.

* RAFCER Entertainment Complex-disco, videoke, bowling, located in Menzi Barangay ( Bankcrupt also )

He also became the third PBA player after Ramon Fernandez and Bogs Adornado to be given the honor of retiring the jersey number by a PBA team and was the first by two PBA teams, the San Miguel Beermen and the Barangay Ginebra Kings.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo also led the groundbreaking ceremony for the Premier Region's Regional Government Center in Barangay Mapagong, Calamba City last December 11, 2009.

She was also a consultant for corporate taxation of the Independent Realty Corp., Anchor Corp., Prime Holdings, MidPasig Realty Corp. She was columnist of The Manila Bulletin in Manila, publisher of the Filpino Film Review, publisher and editor of the Kabataang Barangay Foundation, Makati, Metro Manila, and Special consultant to the chairman of the board of ABS-CBN, RPN 9 and IBC 13.

The Leganes Central School was renovated into a two-storey building composed of ten rooms replacing the ten-room semi-permanent intermediate building ; three-room building of Calaboa Elementary School ; the three-room building of Lapayon Barangay High School, and also the three-room building of Lapayon Elementary School.

There is also a concentration of business establishments at the section of the national highway / expressway especially Barangay Gatid where the Sunstar Mall is located, and the abandoned PNR Railway ( road ) while a strip pattern of commercial development is noticeable along the Quezon Avenue and along the old highway and Pedro Guevarra Avenue.

Bakbakan falls, a 64-meter waterfall can also be found in Barangay Mainit.

It is also required of the Barangay Councils to submit their respective legislations and budget schedules to the City Council for the latter's review and recommendation for the Mayor's approval.

It is also their main livelihood of Barangay Tulotulo.

) The municipality also has a Roll-On Roll Off ( RORO ) port situated in Barangay Tangil.

In the neighboring Barangay Bonbon, you can also see the equally beautiful ...

A part of Barangay Esperanza also includes Tulang Island in the north.

* Tinago Lake also known as Tinagong Dagat, a mangrove reforestation near Barangay Tabon and Ipil

It also served as the headquarters of Fourth Flight Division of the Japanese Imperial Air Force whose airfield was located in Pula-Bunglas area in Barangay Malubon.

With an estimated 2010 population of nearly 34, 000 ( as projected by the National Statistics Office based on the 2007 census ), Pandan is also one of the Antique's Industrialized and well known in Antique in its natural Beauty, Tourism hot spot due to its neighbouring province of Aklan, Its Cold Spring, the Bugang River and white beaches along the Pandan Bay fro Barangay Mag-aba to Barangay Duyong.