AROBO BARANGAY PROFILE

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

BOUNDARIES- AROBO is one of the 50 Barangays of the Municipality of Tobias

Fornier, Antique. It is located along the coastal road and is bounded by Barangay
Igdanlog in the North, Brgy. Masayo in the South, Brgy. Lawigan in the East and Cuyo
East Pass in the West.

TERRAIN- It has a total land area of 164.1096 hectares of this total land area,
Residential-1.6807 has., Agricultural-88.9301 has, Riceland- 44.9928 has., Cocoland-
41.3971 has., Banana land- 2.5401 has., Pasture- 73.4988 has.

TOPOGRAPHY-
Lowland- 20%

Upland- 75%
Coastal- 5%

SOIL TYPES. The soil types are loam and sandy sand. Some portions of the land are
suitable for agriculture and residential sites.

CLIMATE. The climate is common and normal to Panay island. There are two
pronounced seasons; the dry and the wet seasons. Tuphoons usually come during the
rainy months of June to November.

WATER SOURCES. Sources of water come from Artesian wells, deep well, electric
pump and from the Barangay Waterworks system.

WATER RESOURCES. Igcarubong creek, Igmasin creek, Igpajo creek, mayabuto

creek (Spring)

SITIO. Igmasin

NATURAL RESOURCES. Sand, Gravel and Gold

PUROK ZONATION. The Barangay is composed of 3 puroks, Purok 1, Purok 2

and Purok 3
ACCESSIBILITY. The barangay is 51/2km. away from the town proper and is
accessible by a tricycle and jeepneys. Public utility jeepney’s ply the route to San Jose de
Buenavista at fair intervals.

SOURCES OF INCOME. Barangay Arobo has a labor-oriented (both professional

and non-professional) trading, farming and fishing economy. While others are engaged in
working abroad (Seamen or overseas contract workders) or render labor services to others
(helpers/laborers). Mostly the people here are fishermen whose income is very dependent
on fishind and fry-catching.

HEALTH. Maintains the normanl health condition of the children in the Barangay, the
Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) always checked and monitor the status of the children
0-6 years old (the pre-schoolers) to avoid malnutrition or malnourish children.

Leading causes of mortality are Old age, hypertension, Arthritis and High Blood.

ECONOMIC SECTOR.
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43.33% - area planted with palay

13.33% -area planted with coconut

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15 cavans- average yield per hectare 612.115 kls.

Fishery- sahid, pokot

Forestry- Charcoal making still exists

Trade Industry- Copra, palay and Banana

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-Only Day care Center (for pre-schoo

3. Housing
Permanent - 35%

Semi-permanent - 43%

Temporary- 17%

CULTURAL COMPOSITION. The residents of Arobo call themselves

Antiqueños, their spoken dialects is “kinaray-a”. Majority of the residents are Roman
Catholic (95%) while the remaining 5% belongs to other existing Christian sects.

POPULATION. The 2007 population of Barangay Arobo is 590 individuals with

113 households. The average family size is 5. The population is generally of working
age (15-59 years old)

OTHERS. There is a satisfactory level of educational attainment and employment

COMMUNITY GROUPS/ORGANIZATIONS:
BPC (Barangay Pastoral Council)

4H club Organization

TSKI (Taytay Sa Kauswagan Incorporated Inc.)

LifeBank

ASHII (Ahon Sa Hirap Inc.)