CAPANGDANAN

        It is considered one of the ‘inner’ Barangays of the town. About 90% of its land area is devoted to agriculture and whose voting population is 370.  It is believed that the first settlers of this place were limited to four families, namely: Pugal, Paz, Pe Benito and del Castillo clans.  However, due to intermarriages, these families multiplied swiftly until it turned into one big tribe or community, qualified enough in number to become a barrio.

        Cultivation of the land is the prime source of livelihood, however fishing in a small stream of water called ‘alog’ (a spring source) that traversed the place is also an avocation.  To have sufficiency of water for their rice fields, the said families made a way to re-channel the flow of the fresh water, referred to as ‘manalmen’ that extends up to Brgy. Ora, using the trunk of the ‘pandan’ plant to block the sides of the water course in order not to be eroded.  The importance of the ‘pandan’ plant that grew abundantly in the area was again experienced when one time, hunger stroke and the residents made use of the stem of the ‘pandan’ plant as their staple food by mixing it with ‘tagapulot’ (brown sugar). Its leaves could be cut, dried and made to hats and mats, while its roots were utilized as a breeding place for fishes, crabs, snails and other aquatic resources.

        Evidently, because of the significance and many uses of the ‘pandan’ plants, the residents decided to call their place ‘ca-pandan-an’, referring to the place where the pandan plant grows bountifully.