Guiguinto

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Guiguinto
Municipality

Guiguinto Municipal Hall

Seal

Nickname(s): The Garden Haven Of Bulacan; Garden City

Motto: Guiguinto, Patuloy Sa Pag-Unlad. Guiguinteo Angat Ka Sa
Lahat.

Map of Bulacan showing the location of Guiguinto

Guiguinto
Location within the Philippines

Coordinates:

1450N 12053ECoordinates:

1450N 12053E

Country

polkjhb

Region

Central Luzon (Region III)

Province

Bulacan

District

2nd District

Founded

1641

Barangays

14

Government[1]
Mayor

Ambrosio Cruz Jr.

Area[2]
Total

27.50 km2 (10.62 sq mi)

Population (2015 census)[3]

Total

99,730

Density

3,600/km2 (9,400/sq mi)

Poverty rate

4.3%

Time zone

PST (UTC+8)

ZIP code

3015

IDD:area code

+63(0)44

Income class

1st Class

Electricity

Manila Electric Company

 Consumption

56.94 million kWh (2003)

Website

guiguinto.gov.ph

Guiguinto is a first class urban municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the
2015 census, it has a population of 99,730 people.[3]
Guiguinto is one of the fast-growing municipalities. From a predominating agricultural economy, it
gradually urbanized and developed, now part of the Metro Manila conurbation.
It is the birthplace of composer Constancio De Guzman, known for writing songs like "Maalaala Mo
Kaya". It also houses the Immaculate Conception Seminary, a Diocesan Seminary of the Diocese of
Malolos located in barangay Tabe. The appellation Guiguinto literally translates to Gold for the
early conquistadores came and saw this town on a harvest season when it lushes in golden rice
stalks against the sun.
Contents
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1Barangays
2History
3Demographics
4Economy
5Halamanan Festival
6Town of the Champion
7Points of interest
8Images
9References
10External links

Barangays[edit]
Guiguinto is politically subdivided into 14 barangays:[2]

Cutcut (Mango Capital of Guiguinto)

Daungan (Rice Granary of Guiguinto)
Ilang-Ilang (Smallest Barangay in Guiguinto)
Malis (Biggest Barangay in Guiguinto)
Panginay (Home of Poetry of Guiguinto)
Poblacion (Capital of Guiguinto)
Pritil (Livestock Capital of Guiguinto especially Pigs/Swines)
Pulong Gubat (Forestry Capital of Guiguinto)
Santa Cruz (Garden Capital of Guiguinto 1)
Santa Rita (Commercial Capital of Guiguinto)
Tabang (Garden Capital of Guiguinto 2)
Tabe (Machine Capital of Guiguinto)
Tiaong (Real Estate Capital of Guiguinto)
Tuktukan (Industrial Capital of Guiguinto)

History[edit]

Guiguinto began as a barrio of Bulakan, the former provincial capital of Bulacan. It is said that
Spaniards set up an army post in the barrio to serve as a resting place for forces going to Northern
Luzon. In those days, travel throughout Guiguinto was difficult and slow down to cross single file
over a narrow bamboo bridge. Their Filipino guides would cry out, "Hinto" (stop). The Spaniards
thought this was the name "Hihinto". The Spaniards substituted "Gui" (with hard "g") for the Tagalog
"Hi". The place has since been called Guiguinto. On the other hand, old timers say that on moonlight
nights, a golden bull emerges from the church and goes down to the nearby river to quench his
thirst. It then returns to the church, ascends at the altar and disappears. The elders' aid that there
are buried jars of gold in town, as indicated by the bull, and that is why the town was called
Guiguinto. It became an encomienda in the 1591 but the ecclesiastical administration was under
Bulakan Convent and it was established as a Town in 1641.
In 1800, an Augustinian friar erected a small chapel in what is now barrio Sta. Rita. In 1873, roads
were constructed in barrio Malis. The people barrios of Pritil, Tabe, and Cutcut even those days
were mostly farmers. During Holy Week, villagers of barrio Tuktukan held contest for the hardest egg
shells (chicken, duck or goose by knocking eggs together (Tuktukan)). The women tried to help each
other in singing the "Panica".
Just before the outbreak of the revolution of 1896, the town people of Guiguinto were ordered to
sleep in the town at night and to work in their fields only in the day. This was said to have been
suggested by the town priest to the authorities because of rumors that many of the town people were
joining the secret revolutionary society, the Katipunan. Guiguinto eventually contributed many
soldiers to the 1896 revolution.
At the time of American occupation, the new colonizers reorganized the Province of Bulacan into
Nineteen Municipalities from the original Twenty-Six. Under populated town were subordinated with
the large one and the Town of Guiguinto was integrated in the Town of Bulakan for almost eleven
years. In 1915 Guiguinto regain its township again with Antonio Figueroa as its Municipal Mayor of
the moidern period.The town's population was then about 4,000. The 1960 census placed
Guiguinto's population at 10,629. Guiguinto is bounded on the east by the town of Balagtas, on the
west by Malolos, on the north by Plaridel, and on the south by Bulacan.

Demographics[edit]
Population census of Guiguinto
Year

Pop.

% p.a.

1990

44,532

1995

52,575

+3.16%

2000

67,571

+5.53%

2007

89,225

+3.91%

2010

90,507

+0.52%

2015

99,730

+1.86%

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[3][4]

In the 2015 census, the population of Guiguinto, was 99,730 people,[3] with a density of 3,600
inhabitants per square kilometre or 9,300 inhabitants per square mile.

Economy[edit]
A quarter of its 2,512 hectares was converted into nurseries giving livelihood to 500 families of
gardeners and landscapers. Mayor Isagani Pascual announced that the landscaping business in
Guiguinto is now a P 50 million industry. Jojo Sebastian, chair of the Guiguinto Garden City
Cooperative stated that their garden stores sell P 100,000 to P 300,000 plants and contracts for
garden and landscapes designs a month.[5]

Halamanan Festival[edit]
Established in the year 1999 by Mayor Ambrosio Cruz, Jr., the Halamanan Festival has since
become the brand of the Municipality of Guiguinto. It was conducted in gratitude and recognition
Guiguinto's dear patron, St. Ildefonso, who held every 23 January. It is considered that grand Street
Dancing Festival, the participation of dancers from the school and village of Guiguinto and be in
different towns of Bulacan. They adorned the garments as flowers and more. Besides the
celebration for the feast of San Ildefonso was also a means to further pitting and display capabilities
and galling of Guiguintenyo in various fields of horticulture as landscaping, PROPAGATION
seedling, plant growing, flower cutting, arranging and interior decorating.

Town of the Champion[edit]

Since 2008 Guiguinto has been known as the "Town of the Champion". 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. Clemente is being managed by former GNK
(Gym Ni Konsehal) middleweight champion John Paul Limpo, a former resident of Barangay IlangIlang, Guiguinto.

Points of interest[edit]

San Ildefonso Parish Church

Guiguinto Gardens in Sta. Cruz and Tabang
Garden City in Sta. Cruz
C.M. Farm in Cut-Cut
Golden Shower in Tabe
Alcor Center in Tiaong
Hidden Mountain Rocks in Tiaong
Luntiang Paraiso in Tabang
Guiguinto Old Train Station
Camp Hotel and Resort in Pritil
Halamanan Festival

Images[edit]

February 20, 1944 Bantayog ng mga Bayani

Bulacan Welcome Arch (Sta. Cruz)

The Tabang Toll Barrier (NLEX)

Eurobake Restaurant & Bakeshop (Sta. Cruz)

PUREGOLD Supermarket (Sta. Cruz)

Bank of the Philippine Islands (Sta. Cruz)