Barangay Dumabato Sur, Maddela, Quirino (Maddela)

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BRIEF HISTORY OF BARANGAY
DUMABATO, MADDELA, QUIRINO

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The Barangay of Dumabato was originally established in the valley along the Cagayan River two kilometers below Diduyon, Pinappagan, Nueva Vizcaya, long before the last World War. Dumabato then included the Eastern portion of what is now the Barangay Buenavista. The Barangay was later transferred to its present site after the great river flood of December 6, 1936. The flood in that year carried away houses properties and drowned peoples and animals unaware of the flood in the dark of the night.

The present site of Dumabato is on a plateau transverse by the Dumabato Creek originally inhabited by group known as Ilongots and the Dumagats. Those nomadic tribes roamed the hinterlands and build their homes in the heart of the jungle. Those tribes were soon feared for their notorious head hunting. Many settlers were beheaded by these tribes so that some settlers who were not beheaded discouraged and returned home to their place of origin.

Dumabato is bounded on the north by Villa Hermosa; on the west by forest zone; on the south by Diduyon and on the east by Buenavista. It is generally mountainous and consists of timberlands and virgin agricultural lands. In ten years time after liberation, the thick forest covering approximate land area of Dumabato was cleared by the pioneer settlers. These clearings were planted each year to upland rice, corn, tobacco, vegetables and fruits.

With the population increasing each year, Dumabato was splitted into two (2) barrios in 1967 with undecided boundaries. The boundaries became a dispute for some years but were amicably settled with the signing of a boundary agreement between majority of both Barangay Council members of Dumabato Sur and Dumabato Norte in 1979.

SOURCES OF INCOME

Before the split of Dumabato into Sur and Norte, the seat of the barrio government was the schoolhouse. With the coming of the Presidential aid in 1969, Barangay officials purchased with the PACD Funds, a lot and building materials for the site and construction of the Barangay Hall. The site was quite distance from the national highway and therefore a Barangay road had to be constructed on private lots to connect the hall and the highway.

The ten percent share of Real Property Taxes was used for the construction of Barangay roads/streets until funds for the Barangay roads maintenance were released in 1978. Then BIDA Funds in the amount of Five Thousand Pesos (P5,000) was again released in 1978 . This fund was spent for NAWASA or Spring Development Project. Another BIDA Fund, of the same amount, was released in 1980 and this fund was again spent for the improvement of the Barangay hall. So were the proceeds derived from the fund raising of the Barangay Harvest Festival each year.

HISTORY OF BARANGAY DUMABATO SUR, MADDELA, QUIRINO,
NAME AND IDENTITY

I. Geography and History of the Place


1. Geography of Barangay Dumabato Sur

a. Area of the Barangay is 248.335 hectares
1. Irrigated land is 108.335 hectares
2. Upland is 140.00 hectares
3. Residential lot is 40 hectares

b. Geographical Boundaries
1. North- Dumabato Norte 3. South- Diduyon
2. East- Buenavista 4. West- Forest Zone

2. History of Barangay Dumabato Sur

The word “Dumabato” came from Ilongots or the Bugkalots. However, not so long, later in 1937 settlers from the Ilocos Regions in the person of Mr. Feliciano del Rosario, Jorge Habon, Vicente Bata, Agustin Maranion and others came to occupy the place.

After war, more settlers from the Ilocos, Mountain Province. Pangasinan and nearby municipalities came to expedite, increasing the population. By now the two Barangays of Dumabato have a total population of about 2,670 inhabitants.

With the population increasing each year, Dumabato was splitted into two (2) barrios in 1967 with undecided boundaries which became a dispute for some years but were amicably settled with the signing of a boundary agreement between the two spitted barrios, now known as Barangay Dumabato Sur and Dumabato Norte in 1979.

At present the two Dumabato are known for their being rice producing Barangays in the Municipality of Maddela as a result of the existence of the Tungcab and Villa Hermoza Irrigators Associations with which most of the farmers are members.

II. Beliefs, Customs and Traditions:

In wedding ceremonies and occasions of the Bago tribe, a dance called Tadek in which movement of the arms and feet goes with the beating of the drum made of wood and leather called “Tambor” or metal called “Ganza” played by a player using usually two sticks beating. This kind of dance originated from old folks who migrated from Ilocos Sur “Bago” and Mountain Province.