Calamba City

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**City of Calamba**

Location
Map of Laguna showing the location of Calamba City
Government
Region	CALABARZON (Region IV-A)
Province	Laguna
District	2nd district of Laguna
Barangays	54
Income class:	1st class city; urban
Mayor	Joaquin M. Chipeco, Jr. ( NP)
Founded	August 28, 1742
Cityhood	April 21, 2001
Official Website	elgu2.ncc.gov.ph/CITYOFCALAMBA
Physical characteristics
Area	144.80 km²
Population Total (2000) Density	281,146 1,942/km²
Coordinates	14° 13' 1.2" N, 121° 10' 1.2" E

Calamba City is a 1st class city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. Situated only 54 kilometers south of Manila, about an hour by chartered bus, Calamba City is a popular tourist destination with its hot spring resorts, most of which are located in Barangay Pansol, and the Canlubang Golf and Country Club, site of many Philippine Opens. Calamba is also an important modern industrial center in the CALABARZON region as shown by the large number of industrial parks and business estates that are located in the city. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 281,146 people in 58,466 households.

Calamba City is also the birthplace of José Rizal, the country's national hero.

1 Geography
2 Barangays
3 History
4 Schools
- 4.1 Secondary(Public)
5 External links

[edit] Geography

Calamba lies at the northern slopes of Mount Makiling, a dormant volcano. The southern terminus of the South Luzon Expressway is in Calamba and this geographic position makes the city a gateway to the southern provinces of Luzon. The highway at the end of the South Luzon Expressway leads east to the other towns of Laguna and south towards the provinces of Batangas and Quezon. Calamba City is bordered by Cabuyao to the north, Los Baños to the east, by the province of Batangas to the south, specifically the municipalities of Santo Tomas and Talisay, and by the province of Cavite to the west, with Tagaytay City and Silang. Laguna de Bay the country's largest lake, forms the city's northwest border. The provincial capital, Santa Cruz, is located 45 kilometers by road to the east.

[edit] Barangays

Calamba City is politically subdivided into 54 barangays.

Bagong Kalsada
Banadero
Banlic
Bantayan
Barandal
Batino
Bubuyan
Bucal
Bunggo
Burol
Camaligan
Canlubang
Halang
Hornalan
Kay-Anlog
Laguerta
La Mesa
Lawa
Lecheria

Lingga
Looc
Mabato
Majada Labas
Makiling
Mapagong
Masili
Maunong
Mayapa
Paciano Rizal
Palingon
Palo-Alto
Pansol
Parian
Barangay 1 (Pob.)
Barangay 2 (Pob.)
Barangay 3 (Pob.)
Barangay 4 (Pob.)
Barangay 5 (Pob.)

Barangay 6 (Pob.)
Barangay 7 (Pob.)
Prinza
Punta
Puting Lupa
Real
Sucol
Saimsim
Sampiruhan
San Cristobal
San Jose
San Juan
Sirang Lupa
Tulo
Turbina
Ulango
Uwisan

[edit] History

The name of the city comes from a legend that during the early time of the Spanish period in the country, two "guardias civil" or soldiers were lost and passing through what is now Calamba. The soldiers met a young lady who came from a river carrying a jar of water and a wooden stove. The soldiers unwittingly in Spanish language and in authoritative tone, to conceal the fact that they were lost, asked the local maiden the name of the place they were in. The lady, who speaks only her native language, naturally thought she was being interrogated about what she was carrying and nervously uttered "kalan-banga", meaning "wooden stove" (kalan) and "water jar" (banga). Because the Spaniards could not pronounce it properly, the town has been called Calamba supposedly since then. This legend is immortalized with a large concrete water jar erected in the city plaza with the names of the city's barangays written on its surface. It is considered the World's Biggest "Claypot". This same jar is also found in the city's seal. The plaza was proposed by Dr. Agapito Alzona, the then town councilor to utilize the waste area where the old town market relocated from. The resolution was approved by the then town mayor Roman Lazaro and added additional P5,000 for the fence to the original P15,000 construction cost. It was completed in 1939.

Before it became a separate town, Calamba was then a part of Tabuco, now known as Cabuyao. Calamba became an independent pueblo on August 28, 1742. With the passage of Republic Act No. 9024 on April 7, 2001 and the approval of the residents in a plebiscite on April 21, Calamba was promoted from a municipality into Laguna's second component city after San Pablo.

Calamba boasts no less than five national heroes: Dr. Jose Rizal, General Paciano Rizal, Teodora Alonzo, General Vicente Lim, and Lt. Geronimo Aclan.

[edit] Schools

[edit] Secondary(Public)

School ID	School Name	School Head	Barangay
301511	Bubuyan NHS	RAYMUNDA N. MACARAEG	Bubuyan
301512	Bunggo NHS	LINO T. SANCHEZ	Bunggo
301513	Buntog NHS	NELIA U. MANLIGOD	Canlubang
301514	Calamba Bayside NHS (Lingga Rural NHS)	EULOGIO T. TAÑALA JR.	Palingon
301515	Calamba NHS	LYDIA V. PIAMONTE	Bañadero
301516	Camp Vicente Lim NHS	EMILIA E. NATANAUAN	Mayapa
301517	Canlubang NHS	OLIVIA S. PEDUCHE	Canlubang
301518	Eduardo Barretto, Sr. NHS	ERNESTO LINDO	Pansol
301519	Looc NHS	CASIMIRA G. REYES	Looc
301520	Mabato NHS	CENIZA I. MONTANO	Mabato
301521	Mabato NHS - Kapayapaan Annex	FELIZA L. MALIBIRAN	Canlubang
301522	Majada-In NHS	ISABEL M. JOSE	Canlubang
301523	Makiling NHS	DOLORES G. ILAGAN	Makiling
301524	Palo Alto NHS	CORAZON R. ALMONTE	Canlubang
301525	Punta NHS	ROBERTA O. LEGASPI	Punta
301526	Punta NHS - Lawa Annex	ROBERTA O. LEGASPI	Lawa
301527	Tiyani NHS	YOLANDA L. SAMBAJON	Masili