Barangays > Ibud

Brief History

This place was a forest when Mindoro was under foreign domination. Persons who entered the forest in this area, to cut big trees or hunt for wildlife, oftentimes caught monkeys and wild pigs.

After World War II, the leaders who served as mayors of Sablayan tried their best to convince people to settle in this municipality. One of them was Mayor Loreto Urieta who went to the provinces of Antique, Bulacan, Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan, to convince the people there to transfer and live permanently in Sablayan, since there were plenty of vacant lands which could be made productive by industrious farmers. The following years, as a result of Mayor Urieta’s campaign, many farmers from Luzon and the Visayas transferred to Sablayan. The number of barrios in this municipality increased. Some of the places where the families settled were Sitio Katuray and its adjacent communities.

When Sitio Katuray became Barrio San Vicente in 1954, a few Ilocano and Igorot families who transferred to Sablayan from Central Luzon and Mountain Province settled in a wide plain near the barrio where buri plants abound. One day, they saw a group of Visayan youth who were cutting buri plants to get its pith. When asked what they were removing from the buri plants the youth answered: UBOD, meaning its pith. What the Ilocano and Igorot heard was IBUD. From that time on, they called their settlement Ibud. Years later, it became a sitio of Brgy. San Vicente.

A few years before the declaration of martial law in our country, due to the hardships endured by their children who walked from Ibud to the elementary school of San Vicente, in order to attend classes, the parents petitioned the officials of the Department of Education to open a primary school in their sitio. Their request was granted and from a group of pupils in Grade I, the number of schoolchildren increased gradually until the primary school became a complete elementary school.

In 1975, the inhabitants of Ibud requested the municipal government of Sablayan that their sitio be elevated to the status of a barangay. The request was granted and the following year, Barangay Ibud was created. Simeon Bitongan was elected as its first barangay captain.

Through the efforts of Brgy. Capt. Bitongan and the succeeding leaders of the barangay, the road from the provincial highway to Ibud was improved. Moreover, the barangay hall, day care center and children’s playground at the plaza of the community were constructed.