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Showing posts with label Papaya. Show all posts
Monday, November 22, 2010
History From Sitio to Barrio
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In 1886, Papaya was changed into 'Muñoz' to honor Don Francisco Muñoz, the province’s alcalde mayor, and the community’s first appointed gobernadorcillo. Muñoz was annexed as a barrio of San Juan de Guimba municipality. Settlers trickled in from Bulacan and the Ilocos Region. In 1911, Factoria (now San Isidro town), the provincial capital, was totally flooded. Muñoz was then considered a possible new capital of the province. At about the same time, the people of Barrios Muñoz and San Antonio, also in San Juan de Guimba town, and Palusapis in Sto. Domingo municipality, together with Sitios Kabisukulan, Rang-ayan, Mataas na Lupa, Siniguelas, Purok Agrikultura, and Pulong Maragul in Talavera town, were organizing themselves to be separated from their three respective municipalities to become a new independent municipality. They were prepared to construct a municipal hall and a school building for the emerging town.
Muñoz, Nueva Ecija
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The Science City of Muñoz, situated 147 km North of Manila, is the acknowledged center of agricultural research and technology in Central Luzon. With its rich topography and tropical climate, it is now home to the premiere agricultural centers committed to the production of information and technological breakthroughs to promote rural development, productivity and food security.
From its lowly origins as “Sitio Papaya”, it was rechristened as Muñoz in 1886 in honor of Spanish Governor Don Francisco Muñoz. It was in 1913, under Executive Order No. 72, wherein Muñoz was declared as a new and independent municipality.
With a bustling market center wherein rice trading was a major economic activity, it has metamorphosed into its present stature, unprecedented in the annals of the country as a Science City by virtue of Republic Act 8977 on December 9, 2000.
The overriding objective of transforming Muñoz into a center of science and technology, trade, commerce and agro-industry is now achievable as the city is now financially sound to implement and translate into reality its conceptualized framework of total development.
Being a science city, Muñoz was acknowledged as one of the members of League of Cities of the Philippines and became a pilot city of achieving the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.
Today, Muñoz is fully confident in its march to history, treading the path to glory and immortality as the First-ever Science City in the Philippines and most probably also the First chartered City in the World.
From its lowly origins as “Sitio Papaya”, it was rechristened as Muñoz in 1886 in honor of Spanish Governor Don Francisco Muñoz. It was in 1913, under Executive Order No. 72, wherein Muñoz was declared as a new and independent municipality.
With a bustling market center wherein rice trading was a major economic activity, it has metamorphosed into its present stature, unprecedented in the annals of the country as a Science City by virtue of Republic Act 8977 on December 9, 2000.
The overriding objective of transforming Muñoz into a center of science and technology, trade, commerce and agro-industry is now achievable as the city is now financially sound to implement and translate into reality its conceptualized framework of total development.
Being a science city, Muñoz was acknowledged as one of the members of League of Cities of the Philippines and became a pilot city of achieving the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.
Today, Muñoz is fully confident in its march to history, treading the path to glory and immortality as the First-ever Science City in the Philippines and most probably also the First chartered City in the World.
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