BARANGAY PROFILE
Municipality of Lemery
Barangay: CABANTOHAN

Subject: NARRATIVE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

The name cabantohan as it is called now as traditional folks would relate comes from 2 version. One was derived from a stony place where it is abundant in the locality thus Cabantohan as a name emerged. The other one is from a container where folks would keep their important valuable for safekeeping called Caban. Whichever would be the nearest source of the name one can justify visiting the place where stone are plenty and people still uses caban as their safekeeping place for valuable.

The place could be reached by two (2) direction from poblacion. The Tabunan route about 2 has and the route which connect brgy Dapdapan about 1 km. The area is more or less equally divided to mountainous and lowland. The lowland provides support due to rice production and the upland where crops and livestock are raised. Portion of mount is mount Anito the highest in the Muicipality with a height of 446 ft. above sea level.

It is bounded in the east by sepanton and Velasco, North by Tabunan, West Poblacion and South Dapdapan. It has a 4 grade school and a Barangay road that connects brgy Tabunan. It is progressive community having able to raised 2 crops a year and in some portion up to the 3rd cropping.

The brgy have a potential market outlet once the proposed KABSAKA roads will be constructed in the 1984. The other resources waiting for utilization is the vast idle land suited for agro-forestry project.