"Municipality of President Roxas Capiz"
January 25, 2011
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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