BARANGAY PROFILE
Municipality of Lemery
Barangay: GERONGAN

Subject: NARRATIVE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

The name Irongan wsa named after the distinct feature of an early settler with prominent nose that can catch an attention. To facilitate the pronounciation and to get away from the nose nomenclature people changed it to Gerongan. The place is quite well known because of its Gerongan Creek which start from San Jose to Nasapahan to Gerongan to Bankal, San Antonio and finally it pours to Badbaran River. Water in this river is utilize as irrigation water of the nearby Riceland.

It is strategically located, traversed by a National Road from the Municipality of Lemery to San Rafael. It is bounded in the East by brgy Anabo, Bankal in the North, Omio the West and Nasapahan in the South. Paguiringan Mountain is so distinct because of its absence of vegetation and it is believed to contain minerals. It has a vast public, idle land waiting for someone to till. Upland crop could be well suited so with Agro-Forestry plant in the uphill.

There is a grade school with two teachers. It connects to Bankal by a portion of Provincial road then with a barangay road that received annual maintenance fund. Infrastructure like Multi-Purpose, pavement and Multi-Purpose hall, a brgy Clinic and Bridge are the common project in the brgy any other brgy the area is the suited to sugarcane and corn.