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"Municipality of President Roxas Capiz"

January 25, 2011

 

 

                                 

 ”THE PRESIDENT ROXAS CAPIZ”

       The municipality of  Pilar is geographically located at the southeastern part of the province of Capiz.   The legendary Barrio  Aranguel is  situated  on the western portion of  this  municipality,  some  36  kilometers  away  from  Roxas  City,  with  Sitio  Lutod-Lutod  as  the  center  place  owing  to  the presence  of  a  sugar  mill.

                                        Sitio  Lutod-Lutod,  Barrio  Aranguel  was  a  cogonal  and  shrubby  area  with  a variety  of  trees  where  game  birds  and  animals  abound.   Inhabitants and houses in this area were very few.  The  area  had  adjoining  rolling  plains  with  rich  soil  suited  for  sugar  cane  and  with  good  water  source  afforded  by  the  Alñgon  River. In 1924, a sugar  mill  was  installed  right  at  the  site  where  the  Central  Azucarera  de  Pilar (now  Capiz  Sugar  Central)  now  stands.   In the ensuing years,  the  mill  fell  into  the  hands  of  Elizalde  and  Co.  and  as  sugar  industry  became  a  lucrative  business,  the  mill  capacity  was  improved  and  developed  to  cope  with  the  growing  sugarcane  production.

                                        The  new  condition  in  the  area  resulted  to  the  rapid  growth  of  population  concentrated  in the  sitio  of  Lutod-Lutod.   Among  the  inhabitants  are   either    employees   or    workers   of   the   sugar   central   and   sugarcane  haciendas.   This  also  gave  rise  to  the  emergence  of  small-scale  industries,  merchants  and  retailer  groups.   Eventually, Sitio Lutod-lutod became a huge generator of income for the Municipality of Pilar.

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