BARANGAY PROFILE
Municipality of Lemery
Barangay: PONTOC

Subject: NARRATIVE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

“PONDOK” means clusters early settler of the place bonded by common objectives and purpose group themselves and establish a village where they could live to support their families.
Spaniards upon reaching the place identify this cluster called pondok and by ease of pronounciation they change it to PONTOC the names the people called up to the present.
It is lowland by topography and it is traverse by badbaran creek, where one of the successful Irrigation Project of the Municipality can be found the Pontoc CIP Communal Irrigation Project. People could surely raise two crops per year even up to the 3rd cropping when water supply permits.
Geographical boundaries are as follows: East Brgy Almeñana, North Brgy Agpipili, West Brgy Buenavista, and South Brgy Sepanton. A new road is being constructed as a cross cut from the National Road passing the brgy of Sepanton. The hilly portion of the place is utilized by its owner in planting sugar cane pasture of those who have herds of cattle. It is one of the largest brgy in terms of area and potential for upland project.
Domingo Basa was the 1st Brgy official who led the Brgy to what it is now. Pontoc hope to have its road network extended and at least a primary school will be put up to cater to the educational need of the barangay.