BARANGAY VI

        The place was originally called ‘riverside’ as it is situated in the south-western part of the poblacion adjoining the Govantes river, a tributary connected to mestizo river that surrounds Ciudad Vigan. It is one of the Barangays that comprised the Barangay Poblacion, which is the urban district of the pueblo (supra, at page 6). However, the Poblacion was later divided into six ‘puroks’ (or ‘sitios’) where the territorial boundaries were determined following the religious blocking system adapted by the parish church for its campaign for the black rosary and procession inside the Poblacion. In the early sixties, it was made a ‘Barrio of the Poblacion’  with the apportionment into districts for purposes of the elections by precinct pursuant to RA 3590 (1963, The Revised Barrio Charter, supra, at page 9).  PD 86 (1972, where citizen assemblies were created in barrios, supra, at page 10) transformed it as a ‘Zone’; and later, by virtue of PD 557 (1974, where the ‘barrio’ and citizen assemblies created under PD 86 became barangays, supra, at page 11), it was renamed and now called as Barangay VI.

          The common occupation of the people by then is fishing by means of ‘desdes’ and as ‘kangkong growers’.  It has an approximate population of 650, considered as the ‘poorest’ and the smallest in terms of registered voters with only 255 among the Poblacion Barangays. Some of its residents are not educated. 

        It is one of the low-lying areas in the town proper where inundation is a usual occurrence attributed to its proximity to the banks of the river.  However, to date, it is in this barangay where one will find the Bantay 'talipapa' (satellite market), the Bantay public market which was subleased as business spaces, commercial  complexes, hospital, lumberyards, site of modern housing project, the St. Paul College of Ilocos Sur and where the district office of the DPWH are located.

     Site of the flamboyant Bantay Arcade (a commercial complex) worth P42M completed on November, 2007 and ready for occupancy at the start of year 2008.