Brief Profile of New Bataan
New Bataan is a first class municipality at the Compostela Valley province of the Philippines.
The municipality was founded on June 18, 1968 through Republic Act No. 4756.[2]It
has a total land area of 688.6 km2 (55,315 has.) and situated north and west of Davao
Oriental province; south of Municipality of Compostela an west of Municipality of Maragusan.
New Bataan is surrounded with mountain ranges that keeps the place away from coming
typhoons. The municipality is composed of more than 50% of forest that has been the sources of living for some
people live in there. The barangays of New Bataan that most likely covered with forest are Andap, Tandawan,
Camanlangan, Manurigao etc. Manurigao is the most remote among the barangay because of the absence of a better
road and transportation. The municipality is also watered by various rivers.One of its is the Mayo river that flows from the mountain of
Andap that goes and combines with the Agusan River. The Batoto river is also one of the biggest, it flows from the eastern part of the area.
BAMBOO GARDEN RESORT
New Bataan Comval Province
by: Cha Monforte, Rural Urban News
Over a thousand Compostela Valley mainlanders chose to soothe themselves in the cool spring and rushing clear river waters in Andap, New Bataan in celebrating Easter after a sleep-scarce Black Saturday and as the Holy Week culminated.
“At the night of Good Friday, our overnight cottages were fully occupied. On Saturday, our guests were going out as new ones kept on coming in,” said Sheila Cualing-Soriano, management overseer of Bamboo Garden, an inland resort known for its swimming pool with cool spring water tapped from a highland of a nearby hill.
By the pool’s side, visitors and guests can alternately choose to frolic in the rushing cool, clear riverwaters of Andap splashing at stones and boulders.“I’m glad what it is turning out now from what my late father had started,”Sheila said knowing the thousands of frolickers that came in during the Lenten Season.For yesterday’s Easter treat of the resort for her guests, Sheila belted out a live band show, ledge dancing contest and Easter egg hunting.
Sheila is the eldest in the brood of five of former New Bataan Mayor Margarito“Nonoy” Cualing, who started carving out a big pool at the resort’s centre point in November 2005. It had its soft opening May 2006, but three months after, the former mayor died of lung cancer.The inland resort, developed inside the 12-hectare Cualing property, is just about a 10-minute motorcycle ride from New Bataan poblacion. It is cut by a rushing Andap river by the frontage of the
concrete section of the Andap-Maragusan road, and its developed portion gets a breathtaking view and cool ambience of the rising hills and greeneries nearby. “We’re still at present working on what technology and how to access Internet and cable TV connections to best serve our guests considering our location,”Soriano said referring the hills and mountains that entrap the place.“But at best we’re offering what is natural like our spring water in the pool,”she added.
While also tens of thousands of frolickers in yesterday’s Easter celebration usually mobbed the beaches, Comval mainlanders for having no seas have been glad they have been seeing entrepreneuers developing inland resorts in the valley like the Bamboo Garden.Comval mainland consists of the six towns located in the landlocked fertile valley,which are Mawab, Nabunturan, Montevista, Monkayo, Compostela and New Bataan
(Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)
New Bataan Comval Province
by: Cha Monforte, Rural Urban News
Over a thousand Compostela Valley mainlanders chose to soothe themselves in the cool spring and rushing clear river waters in Andap, New Bataan in celebrating Easter after a sleep-scarce Black Saturday and as the Holy Week culminated.
“At the night of Good Friday, our overnight cottages were fully occupied. On Saturday, our guests were going out as new ones kept on coming in,” said Sheila Cualing-Soriano, management overseer of Bamboo Garden, an inland resort known for its swimming pool with cool spring water tapped from a highland of a nearby hill.
By the pool’s side, visitors and guests can alternately choose to frolic in the rushing cool, clear riverwaters of Andap splashing at stones and boulders.“I’m glad what it is turning out now from what my late father had started,”Sheila said knowing the thousands of frolickers that came in during the Lenten Season.For yesterday’s Easter treat of the resort for her guests, Sheila belted out a live band show, ledge dancing contest and Easter egg hunting.
Sheila is the eldest in the brood of five of former New Bataan Mayor Margarito“Nonoy” Cualing, who started carving out a big pool at the resort’s centre point in November 2005. It had its soft opening May 2006, but three months after, the former mayor died of lung cancer.The inland resort, developed inside the 12-hectare Cualing property, is just about a 10-minute motorcycle ride from New Bataan poblacion. It is cut by a rushing Andap river by the frontage of the
concrete section of the Andap-Maragusan road, and its developed portion gets a breathtaking view and cool ambience of the rising hills and greeneries nearby. “We’re still at present working on what technology and how to access Internet and cable TV connections to best serve our guests considering our location,”Soriano said referring the hills and mountains that entrap the place.“But at best we’re offering what is natural like our spring water in the pool,”she added.
While also tens of thousands of frolickers in yesterday’s Easter celebration usually mobbed the beaches, Comval mainlanders for having no seas have been glad they have been seeing entrepreneuers developing inland resorts in the valley like the Bamboo Garden.Comval mainland consists of the six towns located in the landlocked fertile valley,which are Mawab, Nabunturan, Montevista, Monkayo, Compostela and New Bataan
(Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)
Municipality of New Bataan, (Municipality as of 2005)
OFFICIAL NAME : Municipality of New Bataan
DATE CREATED : June 18, 1968
ENABLING LAW : Republic Act 4756
INCOME CLASS : 1st Class
ANNUAL LOCAL INCOME : P5,761,257.97(2005)
INTERNAL REVENUE ALLOTMENT: P52,636,316(2005)
DIS. FROM THE MUN. OF COMPOSTELA: 16 km.
DIS. FROM CAPITAL TOWN (NABUNTURAN): 40 km.
DIS. FROM TAGUM CITY: 75 km.
TOTAL LAND AREA : 55,315 has.
TOTAL NO. OF BARANGAYS : 16
TOTAL NO. OF PUROKS : 204
TOTAL NO. OF HOUSEHOLD : 9,050
TOTAL NO. OF POPULATION : 43,940
TOTAL NO. OF MALE POPULATION: 22,579
TOTAL NO. OF FEMALE POPULATION: 21,361
ARAW CELEBRATION: Every 18 June
FOUNDER’S DAY/FESTIVAL: Every 10 August
FESTIVAL NAME : Sal’lupongan
TOWN FIESTA CELEBRATION: Every 13 June
PATRON SAINT : San Antonio de Padua
OFFICIAL PARISH NAME : San Antonio de Padua Parish
Socio-demography (2005)
BIRTH RATE (CRUDE) : 28.82
DEATH RATE (CRUDE) : 4.12
Land classification FOREST : 33,727.7261 has.
AGRO-FOREST : 2,158.6502 has.
AGRICULTURAL : 692.7559 has.
MINING : 6,210.401 has.
RESIDENTIAL : 11.843 has.
BRUSH LAND AREA : 2,158.6502 has.
COMMERCIAL : 11.5962 has.
ROAD : 62.06395 has.
INSTITUTIONAL : 18.91645 has.
SPECIAL USE : 3.1605 has.
INDUSTRIAL : 0.3828 has.
RIVER BED/CHANNEL : 38.3858 has.
OFFICIAL NAME : Municipality of New Bataan
DATE CREATED : June 18, 1968
ENABLING LAW : Republic Act 4756
INCOME CLASS : 1st Class
ANNUAL LOCAL INCOME : P5,761,257.97(2005)
INTERNAL REVENUE ALLOTMENT: P52,636,316(2005)
DIS. FROM THE MUN. OF COMPOSTELA: 16 km.
DIS. FROM CAPITAL TOWN (NABUNTURAN): 40 km.
DIS. FROM TAGUM CITY: 75 km.
TOTAL LAND AREA : 55,315 has.
TOTAL NO. OF BARANGAYS : 16
TOTAL NO. OF PUROKS : 204
TOTAL NO. OF HOUSEHOLD : 9,050
TOTAL NO. OF POPULATION : 43,940
TOTAL NO. OF MALE POPULATION: 22,579
TOTAL NO. OF FEMALE POPULATION: 21,361
ARAW CELEBRATION: Every 18 June
FOUNDER’S DAY/FESTIVAL: Every 10 August
FESTIVAL NAME : Sal’lupongan
TOWN FIESTA CELEBRATION: Every 13 June
PATRON SAINT : San Antonio de Padua
OFFICIAL PARISH NAME : San Antonio de Padua Parish
Socio-demography (2005)
BIRTH RATE (CRUDE) : 28.82
DEATH RATE (CRUDE) : 4.12
Land classification FOREST : 33,727.7261 has.
AGRO-FOREST : 2,158.6502 has.
AGRICULTURAL : 692.7559 has.
MINING : 6,210.401 has.
RESIDENTIAL : 11.843 has.
BRUSH LAND AREA : 2,158.6502 has.
COMMERCIAL : 11.5962 has.
ROAD : 62.06395 has.
INSTITUTIONAL : 18.91645 has.
SPECIAL USE : 3.1605 has.
INDUSTRIAL : 0.3828 has.
RIVER BED/CHANNEL : 38.3858 has.