Bustos, Bulacan

Bustos
Municipality

Municipal Hall

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Map of Bulacan showing the location of Bustos
Bustos

Location within the Philippines

Coordinates: 14°58′N 120°55′E / 14.96°N 120.92°E / 14.96; 120.92Coordinates: 14°58′N 120°55′E / 14.96°N 120.92°E / 14.96; 120.92
Country Philippines
Region Central Luzon (Region III)
Province Bulacan
District 2nd District
Founded April 26, 1867
Barangays 14
Government[1]
  Mayor Arnel F. Mendoza (NUP)
Area[2]
  Total 69.99 km2 (27.02 sq mi)
Population (2015 census)[3]
  Total 67,039
  Density 960/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
  Poverty rate Decrease 5.9%
Demonym(s) Bustosenyo
Time zone PST (UTC+8)
ZIP code 3007
IDD:area code +63(0)44
Income class 2nd Class
Electricity Manila Electric Company
• Consumption 19.66 million kWh (2003)

Bustos is a second class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 67,039 people.[3]

With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, Bustos is now included in the Greater Manila's built-up conurbation area which reaches San Ildefonso, Bulacan at its northernmost part.

History

Bustos was a part of the town of Baliuag as its barrio during the Spanish Period. The town was separated from Baliuag by a tragic incident when around 1860, a rainy Sunday, a group of natives from Bustos with babies in their arms were on their way to St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag for baptismal when they drowned when the raft or planceta they were riding capsized while crossing the wild river of Angat due to the strong water current. This fateful event led the people of Bustos to request and build their own parish church to be able to avoid crossing the wild river for community safety. The people chose Holy Child Jesus (Sto. Niño) as their patron saint in honor of those infants that died in the river.

Bustos also gained its independence from Baliuag in April 29, 1867 through the painstaking efforts and sacrifices of its inhabitants with the integration of barrios Bonga Mayor and Bonga Menor. The town got its name from Don Jose Pedro de Busto[s], a mining engineer from Asturias, Spain, and right-hand of Simon de Anda y Salazar who was appointed tenyente heneral alkalde of Bulacan and an aide of a Spanish Governor General of the Philippines during the late 1700s. But the town became a part of Baliuag again during the American period. Bustos became also a part of the historical World War II in the Philippines and it served as the headquarters of soldiers in the province of Bulacan during the war in 1945.

Bustos was again separated from Baliuag and became a distinct municipality on January 1, 1916 during the Philippine Assembly through 4th Philippine Legislature Assemblyman Ricardo Lloret Gonzalez. After a year when the town became a distinct municipality, the town inaugurated its Municipal Hall on January 1, 1917. Leon Prado became its first local leader and served from 1917 to 1919. Padre Gabriel Alvarez served as the first parish priest of the institutionalized Sto. Niño de Bustos Parish Church.

With the theme "BustoSentenaryo : Isang Daan tungo sa Ikasandaan", Bustos is about to celebrate its 100th year founding anniversary in the same time with the 7th Minasa Festival and is expected to happen at the month of January 2017.

Geography

Bustos is located at the center of five adjoining towns of Bulacan Province: San Rafael on north; Pandi and Plaridel on south; Baliuag on west; and Angat on east. The land area are mostly rice fields devoted for planting crops and agriculture. Some barangays of the town are covered by irrigation system coming from Bustos Dam and Angat Dam on the Angat River. Bustos was once hailed as one of the largest rice producers of the country and the Central Luzon Region, the Rice Granary of the Philippines, and received the Hall of Fame award at Rice Achievers Award of 2014.

Barangays

Bustos is subdivided into the following fourteen barangays (six urban, eight rural).[2]

  • Bonga Mayor
  • Bonga Menor
  • Buisan
  • Camachilihan
  • Cambaog
  • Catacte
  • Liciada
  • Malamig
  • Malawak
  • Poblacion
  • San Pedro
  • Talampas
  • Tanawan
  • Tibagan

Demographics

Population census of Bustos
YearPop.±% p.a.
1990 34,965    
1995 41,372+3.20%
2000 47,091+2.81%
2007 60,681+3.56%
2010 62,415+1.03%
2015 67,039+1.37%
Source: National Statistics Office[4]

In the 2015 census, the population of Bustos, Bulacan, was 67,039 people,[3] with a density of 960 inhabitants per square kilometre or 2,500 inhabitants per square mile.

Religion

Church and chapels:

Sto. Niño de Bustos Parish Church

List of covered chapels of the Parish Church of Sto. Niño de Bustos:

Other religious groups:

Economy

Bustos Wet and Dry Public Market

The Bustos commercial center in the town proper is still expanding with the influx of more business investors willing to venture in this small but flourishing town. In the present, the town has its one public and few small private markets and businesses, a Banco de Oro branch, a 7 Eleven branch, All Day Convenient Store, and Nesabel Wholesale & Retail Warehouse in Brgy. Poblacion, one mini public market in Brgy. Liciada, & Tibagan Coop-Mart in Brgy. Tibagan.

Bustos has their own trademark product, the tasty and delicious finger food 'Minasa'. Minasa refers to "Cassava Cookies", made from cassava flour, egg yolk, yeast, butter, and coco milk. It is somehow compared to Uraro, another local delicacy. It is one of the famous treats from the province of Bulacan which is traded in local and global market of Filipino pasalubong products. Way back Spanish colonization era here in the Philippines, these Minasa cookies were made of sago starch and not cassava. The main ingredient was changed because of the long production time of sago starch and cassava starch was cheaper and easier to produce. Also, these were exclusively produced and eaten by the elite Bulakeños for they are the only ones who can afford the ingredients and had the equipment for the production of it. The word minasa in English is "molded". The process of preparing Minasa is like making and baking cookies. The only thing special about Minasa is its shape which was molded on a special wooden molder with intricate designs, commonly floral designs, and it is baked in a hurno or a brick stone oven which adds to the yumminess of the cookie. Minasa is said to be a part of history and culture of Bulacan because of those egg yolks that were left in building old stone houses that were made of egg whites. Currently, there are stalls all around Bustos selling this very delicious local delicacy making the municipality hailed as the "Home of Minasa".

Bustos has a rural bank, the Rural Bank of Bustos, which is located at Gen. Alejo Santos Highway, Brgy. Bonga Menor, beside the Bustos by-pass road going to Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.

Other products, industries, & services:

Local government

Based on the 2016 Philippine Local and National Elections, the following local officials were elected and inaugurated:

Mayor: Arnel F. Mendoza (LP)

Vice Mayor: Leonardo "Ading" L. Leoncio (LP)

Members of the Sangguniang Bayan:

Barangay Chairmen:

The Municipality of Bustos is one of the 185 city/municipality recipients (out of 1,490 cities and municipalities) who received the 2015 Seal of Good Local Governance in the whole country. The criteria is based on these following points: transparency in government, charity for the poor, disaster preparedness, strong campaign against criminality, and being supportive in economy and business. The plaque of recognition is given by the Department of Interior and Local Government.

Festivals

Bustos is famous for its Minasa Festival showcasing the town locally made food products like the irresistible delicacies Minasa cookie and the dry-like wafer crispy Barquillos. Celebrated during the month of January in the same time with the feast of their patron saint Holy Child Jesus, the Minasa Festival event is a televised week-long festivity of street dancing parade in colorful costumes and also features a row of makeshift stalls selling local food and merchandise inside the municipal compound; live band concerts of well-known performers; photo contest and exhibits; traditional Filipino games as well as singing and dancing competitions among every barangay and school of the town; and is a famous tourist-attracting event in the province. It started in the year 2011 and celebrated annually with the participation of Bustosenyos and tourists globally. It also became a headline on a broadsheet of The Philippine Star in 2014 on its 4th year of celebration in the theme "Mas Pinasayang Minasa Festival" through its chief photographer Valentino Rodriguez. The Sto. Niño de Bustos Parish Church also hold its lively Tugyaw (Tugtog at Sayaw) street dancing and the "Bata-Bata" festival (where children are dressed like the image of Sto. Niño) every year in honor of Holy Child Jesus, the patron saint of the municipality, as the first activities to the next Bustos Town Fiesta.

Celebrated in honor of the Holy Child Jesus, the Sto. Niño Festival of Bustos is always celebrated in the month of January in the same date as the feast of the Holy Child in the Philippines. Carnivals and bazaars are always present while the Sto. Niño Parish commonly has its variety show in its patio area. Celebrities were commonly invited to join the feast. Roads in Brgy. Poblacion up to Brgy. Tanawan were commonly filled with people and stranded vehicles due to traffic during the peak day of the feast.

The annual Holy Week Lenten observance is observed nationwide, but in contrast with the revelry and grandiose of a regular merrymaking festival, Bustos' Semana Santa is celebrated plain and simple. The procession of saints is a spectacular scene to watch—the long line evening parade of scintillating series of life-sized biblical images atop a moving elaborate floats depicting the life and death of Jesus Christ. Some of the notable images in the procession are Ang Pananalangin ni Hesus sa Halamanan of Perez Family, Santo Entierro of Mercado Family, the Century old "La Pieta" and St. Mary of Bethany of Gaddi Family. The popular among the youth is the Bustos Theater Guild's Cenaculo stage drama and hundreds of bloody back whipping and cross-carrying penitents around each village done traditionally called Penitensiya or penitence both showing sacrifices of Jesus Christ.

The Grand Marian procession is held every last Sunday of October in Sto. Niño Parish in honor of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary and the yearly traditional Santacruzan and the thanksgiving feast celebrations (after a bountiful rice harvest) in almost every barangay.

"The feast of St. Peter the Apostle in brgy. San Pedro, the origin of the barrio's name, has already started its festival in reference about the rooster that crowed three times when Peter denied Jesus Christ.

Held during 14th or 15th of May, the Feast of San Isidro Labrador is celebrated at Brgy. Liciada in honor of their parochial patron saint Isidore the Laborer. Nine days before the festival, processions are happened during 5:30 in the morning and novena masses in the evening.

Landmarks and attractions

Library, Museum and Heritage Park (Brgy. Poblacion)

Tourism is one of the sources of income of the municipality of Bustos. Its destinations are always used as filmmaking area. Famous tourist attractions are as follows:

Transportation

North Luzon Expressway has a by-pass road that passes through the municipality of Bustos that shortens the transportation of goods and passengers from some areas in Bulacan going to Metro Manila and vice versa. The Bustos by-pass road passes through Gen. Alejo Santos Highway at Brgy. Bonga Menor, Bustos, Bulacan and travels to NLEx Bocaue Toll Plaza leading to Quezon City on the other side and Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija on another side of which is under construction.

Education

Façade of Bulacan State University-Bustos Campus (Brgy. Poblacion)

The Bulacan State University - Bustos Campus (BulSU-Bustos) is one of the largest satellite campuses of the university. It was established in 1976. In the past twenty five years, BulSU-Bustos has evolved from its focus on two year vocational and technical courses to its current emphasis on preparing students for careers in education and industrial technology. The curriculum also includes introductory classes in engineering for those students planning to transfer to the main campus. In keeping with the university's vision and mission, BulSU has become one of the higher education institutions in Bulacan on a par with leading learning institutions in the region.

From the year it was founded, the campus grew physically from sharing a roof with the Bustos Elementary school to a five-room former public market building to the imposing campus of today. The school grew as well from offering vocational and technical courses and trade secondary school curriculum and two-year technical education courses, to the four-year and five-year degree programs that it now offers. The campus boasts of its upgraded and revitalized curriculum.

List of high schools:

List of public elementary schools:

Notable people

Local heroes:

Sister cities

Images

  1. ^ http://philippinelaw.info/statutes/ra6762.html

References

  1. "Official City/Municipal 2013 Election Results". Intramuros, Manila, Philippines: Commission on Elections (COMELEC). 11 September 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Province: BULACAN". PSGC Interactive. Makati City, Philippines: National Statistical Coordination Board. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Region III (CENTRAL LUZON)". Census of Population (2015): Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay (Report). PSA. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. "Region III (CENTRAL LUZON)". Census of Population and Housing (2010): Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay (Report). NSO. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  5. "Mga Bahay at Yaman ni San Martin de Porres - Home".
  6. "Portico de Busto Events Place - Home".
  7. "Galilee Wonderland Hotel and Resort - Home".
  8. Galende, OSA, Pedro (1996). Angels in Stone: Architecture of Augustinian Churches in the Philippines (2nd ed.). Intramuros, Manila: San Agustin Museum. p. 107. ISBN 9719157100.
  9. "Biyahero: Philippine Travel Portal - Bustos". www.biyahero.net. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
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