BARANGAY PROFILE
Municipality of Lemery
Barangay: TABUNAN

Subject: NARRATIVE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Tabunan was once a sitio of brgy Tabunan now brgy Sepanton. It has gain and independent status as a brgy even before the separation of the Municipality of Lemery from Sara in 1948. The name was derived from the act of filling up or cover meaning tabunan. This was so because the area was once low and often submerged during heavy rains. People wanting to plant crop could not do so due to the staying of water for number of days. Having caught with this problem, inhabitant group themselves and organize bayanihan team hauling soil to fill up the area that later serves as their Riceland. The place that was once submerged during heavy rains now grows rice and other crops. The inhabitant called the place, Tabunan.

The Brgy is traverse by a National road concreting Sara from Lemery, it is bounded by Poblacion in the South with a walking distance of 1 km. brgy Sepanton in the East, brgy Pontoc and Buenavista in the north and brgy Cabantohan in the South. It connect brgy Cabantohan with a brgy Road. The boundary in the North is delineated by Badbaran Creek that supplies irrigation water during the dry season.

Brgy Tabunan has an irrigable area that receives water from Lemery CIP but due to technical problem and organizational difficulties the irrigation did not serves the purpose. It has one sitio called pitik pitik at the food of Pitik Pitik Mountain. The resources of the brgy is dependent much on rice because of the rice field that dominates the topography of the area.

After having separated from the brgy Sepanton, Simeon Paraba serves as brgy Lt. and thereafter it was handed down to the 4th elective officials at present. It proximity with brgy. Sepanton, Pontoc and Cabantohan and the cooperativeness of its people, they were elected as the Pilot Village project of the KABSAKA