View source for Barangay

{{Short description|Administrative division of the Philippines}}
{{About|the administrative division|the pre-colonial polities|Precolonial barangay|the type of plank boat|Balangay|other uses|Barangay (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}}
{{Infobox subdivision type
| name               = Barangay
| alt_name           = Barrio
| alt_name1          = 
| alt_name2          = 
| alt_name3          = 
| alt_name4          = 
| map                = Number of barangays per province.svg
| caption            = Number of barangays per Philippine province
| category           = [[Village]]
| territory          = [[Philippines]]
| upper_unit         = [[Municipalities of the Philippines|Municipalities]], [[Cities of the Philippines|cities]], and barangay districts
| start_date         = September 21, 1974{{efn|name=bgydec|By virtue of Presidential Decree No. 557, s. 1974.<ref name="pd557">{{Cite PH act |chamber=PD |number=557 |date=September 21, 1974 |title=Declaring All Barrios in the Philippines as Barangays, and for Other Purposes |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1974/09/21/presidential-decree-no-557-s-1974 |access-date=July 12, 2020 |publisher=[[Official Gazette (Philippines)|Official Gazette]]}}</ref>}}
| start_date1        = 
| start_date2        = 
| start_date3        = 
| start_date4        = 
| legislation_begin  = 
| legislation_begin1 = 
| legislation_begin2 = 
| legislation_begin3 = 
| legislation_begin4 = 
| legislation_end    = 
| legislation_end1   = 
| legislation_end2   = 
| legislation_end3   = 
| legislation_end4   = 
| end_date           = 
| end_date1          = 
| end_date2          = 
| end_date3          = 
| end_date4          = 
| current_number     = 42,011<ref name="psgc-update-2025-july">{{Cite web |last=Mapa |first=Claire Dennis |author-link=Dennis Mapa |date=July 8, 2025 |title=Second Quarter 2025 PSGC Updates: Correction of the Names of Three Barangays |url=https://psa.gov.ph/classification/psgc/node/1684077694 |access-date=August 20, 2025 |website=[[Philippine Statistics Authority]]}}</ref>
| number_date        = July 8, 2025
| type               = 
| type1              = 
| type2              = 
| type3              = 
| type4              = 
| status             = 
| status1            = 
| status2            = 
| status3            = 
| status4            = 
| exofficio          = 
| exofficio1         = 
| exofficio2         = 
| exofficio3         = 
| exofficio4         = 
| population_range   = 1 ([[Dagami#Barangays|Buenavista]] and [[Gattaran#Barangays|Fugu]]){{efn|Excluding barangays whose [[Population decline|populations declined]] to zero due to various reasons. As of 2020, there are seven barangays with a population of zero: ''Alas-as'' ([[San Nicolas, Batangas]]), ''Barangay V'' ([[Roxas, Palawan]]), ''Calawit'' ([[Balete, Batangas]]), ''Fuentes'' ([[Banate, Iloilo]]), ''Pulang-Bato'' (San Nicolas, Batangas), ''Uauang-Galicia'' ([[Santo Tomas, Isabela]]), and ''Union'' ([[Santa Rita, Samar]]).}} – 213,229 ([[List of barangays in Quezon City|Commonwealth]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 30, 2022 |title=Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) |url=https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/kmcd/PSGC-3Q-2022-Publication-Datafile.xlsx |access-date=December 19, 2022 |publisher=[[Philippine Statistics Authority]]}}</ref>
| area_range         = {{convert|0.14|ha|sqkm|abbr=on}} for [[Santa Rosa, Laguna#Barangays|Malusak]] – {{convert|65000|ha|sqkm|abbr=on}} for [[Kapalong#Barangays|Gupitan]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duron-Abangan |first=Jeanevive |date=May 21, 2019 |title=Military, civilian agencies turn focus on indigenous Manobo tribe |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/military-civilian-agencies-turn-focus-indigenous-manobo-tribe |access-date=May 17, 2025 |website=Reliefweb}}</ref>
| government         = [[Sangguniang Barangay]] (''barangay council'')
| government1        = 
| government3        = 
| government4        = 
| subdivision        = [[Sitio]] (informal)
| subdivision1       = [[Purok]] (informal)
| subdivision2       = 
| subdivision3       = 
| subdivision4       = 
}}
{{Politics of Philippines}}
The '''barangay'''{{efn|Also spelled '''''baranggay''''' in [[Filipino language|Filipino]].}} ({{IPAc-en|b|ɑːr|ɑː|ŋ|ˈ|ɡ|aɪ}}; abbreviated as '''Brgy.''' or '''Bgy.'''), historically known as the ''[[barrio]]'',{{efn|Also spelled '''baryo''' and abbreviated as '''Bo.'''. The term is still sometimes used interchangeably.}} is the smallest [[Administrative divisions of the Philippines|administrative division]] in the Philippines. Named after the [[Precolonial barangay|precolonial polities of the same name]], modern barangays are political subdivisions of [[Cities of the Philippines|cities]] and [[Municipalities of the Philippines|municipalities]], and are analogous to [[Village#Philippines|villages]], districts, neighborhoods, [[suburb]]s, or [[borough]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 25, 2015 |title=barangay |url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/barangay |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222164809/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/barangay |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |access-date=November 5, 2015 |website=[[Oxford Dictionaries (website)|Oxford Dictionaries]]}}</ref> The term ''barangay'' is derived from ''[[balangay]]'', a type of boat used by [[Austronesian peoples]] when they migrated to the Philippines.<ref name=Zaide />

All cities, including [[Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities|independent cities]], and municipalities in the Philippines are politically subdivided into barangays, with the exception of the municipalities of [[Adams, Ilocos Norte|Adams]] in [[Ilocos Norte]] and [[Kalayaan, Palawan|Kalayaan]] in [[Palawan]], each of which contains only one barangay. Barangays are sometimes informally subdivided into smaller areas called ''[[purok]]'' ({{langx|en|"[[wikt:zone|zone]]"}}), or barangay zones consisting of clusters of houses for organizational purposes, and ''[[sitio]]s'', which are territorial [[enclave]]s—usually [[rural]]—located far from the ''[[poblacion]]''. {{as of|2025|01|alt=As of January 2025}}, there are 42,011 barangays throughout the country.<ref name="psgc-update-2025-july" />

== History ==
{{further|Precolonial barangay}} 
When the first [[Spaniards]] arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century, they found well-organized, independent villages called ''barangays''. The name ''barangay'', also spelled  ''[[balangay]]'', originally referred to a certain type of traditional boat in many languages in the Philippines.<ref name=Zaide>{{Citation |last=Zaide |first=Sonia M.f |title=The Philippines: A Unique Nation |pages=62, 420 |year=1999 |publisher=All-Nations Publishing |isbn=971-642-071-4}}, citing {{Citation |last=Plasencia |first=Fray Juan de |title=Customs of the Tagalogs |year=1589 |url=http://www.filipiniana.net/Search.do?searchString=%20Plasencia,%20Juan%20de |access-date=January 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123052115/http://www.filipiniana.net/Search.do?searchString=%20Plasencia%2C%20Juan%20de |archive-date=January 23, 2009 |url-status=dead |place=[[Nagcarlan, Laguna]]}}<br/>
^ {{Citation |last=Junker |first=Laura Lee |title=Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Lbsfi30OXgMC&pg=PA74 74], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Lbsfi30OXgMC&pg=PA130 130] |year=2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lbsfi30OXgMC |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press |isbn=978-971-550-347-1}} {{ISBN|971-550-347-0}}, {{ISBN|978-971-550-347-1}}.</ref> Early Spanish dictionaries of Philippine languages make it clear that the precolonial ''balangay'' or ''barangay'' was pronounced "ba-la-ngay" or "ba-ra-ngay", while today the modern ''barangay'' is pronounced "ba-rang-gay", leading to the non-standard spelling ''baranggay''.<ref name="scott2">{{Cite book |last=William Henry Scott |title=Barangay: sixteenth-century Philippine culture and society |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press |year=1994 |isbn=9789715501354 |pages=4–5}}</ref> The pre-colonial term also referred to the people serving under a particular chief rather than to the modern meaning of an area of land, for which other words were used. While ''barangay'' is a Tagalog word, it spread throughout the Philippines as Spanish rule concentrated power in Manila.<ref name="scott135">{{Cite book |last=William Henry Scott |title=Barangay: sixteenth-century Philippine culture and society |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press |year=1994 |isbn=9789715501354 |pages=135–136}}</ref>

All citations regarding pre-colonial barangays lead to a single source, Juan de Plascencia's 1589 report ''Las costumbres de los indios Tagalos de Filipinas''. However, historian Damon Woods challenges the concept of a ''barangay'' as an indigenous political organization primarily due to a lack of linguistic evidence. Based on indigenous language documents, Tagalogs did not use the word ''barangay'' to describe themselves or their communities. Instead, ''barangay'' is argued to be a Spanish invention resulting from an attempt by the Spaniards to reconstruct pre-conquest Tagalog society.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Woods |first=Damon |url=https://press.up.edu.ph/project/the-myth-of-the-barangay/ |title=The Myth of the Barangay and Other Silenced Histories |publisher=University of the Philippines Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-971-542-821-7 |location=E. de los Santos St., UP Campus, Diliman, Quezon City |pages=117–153}}</ref>

The first barangays started as relatively small communities of around 50 to 100 families. By the time of contact with the Spaniards, many barangays had developed into large communities. The ''encomienda'' of 1604 shows that many affluent and powerful coastal barangays in [[Sulu]], [[Butuan]], [[Panay]],<ref>During the early part of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines the Spanish Augustinian Friar, Gaspar de San Agustín, O.S.A., describes Iloilo and Panay as one of the most populated islands in the archipelago and the most fertile of all the islands of the Philippines. He also talks about Iloilo, particularly the ancient settlement of Halaur, as a site of a progressive trading post and a court of illustrious nobilities. The friar says: Es la isla de Panay muy parecida a la de Sicilia, así por su forma triangular come por su fertilidad y abundancia de bastimentos... Es la isla más poblada, después de Manila y Mindanao, y una de las mayores, por bojear más de cien leguas. En fertilidad y abundancia es en todas la primera... El otro corre al oeste con el nombre de Alaguer [Halaur], desembocando en el mar a dos leguas de distancia de Dumangas...Es el pueblo muy hermoso, ameno y muy lleno de palmares de cocos. Antiguamente era el emporio y corte de la más lucida [[nobility|nobleza]] de toda aquella isla...Mamuel Merino, O.S.A., ed., ''Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas (1565–1615)'', Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1975, pp. 374–376.</ref> [[Leyte]], [[Cebu]], [[Pampanga]], [[Pangasinan]], [[Pasig]], [[Laguna (province)|Laguna]], and the [[Cagayan River]] were flourishing trading centers. Some of these barangays had large populations. In Panay, some barangays had 20,000 inhabitants; in Leyte (Baybay), 15,000 inhabitants; in Cebu, 3,500 residents; in Vitis (Pampanga), 7,000 inhabitants; and in Pangasinan, 4,000 residents. There were smaller barangays with fewer people, but these were generally inland communities, or if they were coastal, they were not located in areas that were good for business pursuits.<ref>Cf. F. Landa Jocano, ''Filipino Prehistory: Rediscovering Precolonial Heritage'' (1998), pp. 157–158, 164</ref> These smaller barangays had around thirty to one hundred houses only, and the population varied from 100 to 500 persons. According to [[Miguel López de Legazpi]], he founded communities with only 20 to 30 people.

Traditionally,<ref>Cf. [[Maragtas (book)]]</ref> the original "barangays" were coastal settlements formed by the migration of these [[Malayo-Polynesian]] people (who came to the archipelago) from other places in [[Southeast Asia]] (''see [[chiefdom]]''). Most of the [[ancient barangay]]s were coastal or riverine. This is because most of the people were relying on fishing for their supply of protein and their livelihood. They also traveled mostly by water, up and down rivers and along the coasts. Trails always followed river systems, which were also a major source of water for bathing, washing, and drinking.

The coastal barangays were more accessible to trade with foreigners. These were ideal places for economic activity to develop. Business with traders from other countries also meant contact with other cultures and civilizations, such as those of [[Japanese people|Japan]], [[Han Chinese]], [[Indian people|Indians]], and [[Arabs]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hisona |first=Harold |date=July 14, 2010 |title=The Cultural Influences of India, China, Arabia, and Japan |url=http://www.philippinealmanac.com/2010/07/528/the-cultural-influences-of-india-china-arabia-and-japan.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701082957/http://www.philippinealmanac.com/2010/07/528/the-cultural-influences-of-india-china-arabia-and-japan.html |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |access-date=February 6, 2013 |publisher=Philippinealmanac.com}}</ref> These coastal communities acquired more cosmopolitan cultures with developed social structures (sovereign principalities), ruled by established royalties and nobilities.

During [[History of the Philippines (1565–1898)|Spanish rule]], through a [[Population transfer|resettlement]] policy called [[reductions]], smaller, scattered barangays were consolidated (and thus "reduced") to form compact towns.<ref name="ThePhilAPastRev">{{Cite book |last=Constantino |first=Renato |title=The Philippines: A Past Revisited (Vol. I) |last2=Constantino |first2=Letizia R. |date=1975 |publisher=Renato Constantino |isbn=971-895-800-2 |edition=Sixteenth Printing (January 1998) |location=Manila, Philippines |pages=60–61 |chapter=Chapter V - The Colonial Landscape |ol=9180911M}}</ref><ref name="StateandSociety">{{Cite book |last=Abinales |first=Patricio N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiOQdEzgP9kC |title=State and Society in the Philippines |last2=Amoroso |first2=Donna J. |date=2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=0742510247 |location=Lanham, Md. |pages=53, 55 |chapter=New States and Reorientations 1368-1764 |access-date=January 15, 2015}}</ref> Each barangay was headed by the ''[[cabeza de barangay]]'' (barangay chief), who formed part of the ''[[principalía]]'', the elite ruling class of the municipalities of the Spanish Philippines. This position was inherited from the first [[datu]]s and came to be known as such during the Spanish regime. The Spanish monarch, who also collected taxes (called tribute) from the residents for the Spanish Crown, ruled each barangay through the ''cabeza''.

When the [[History of the Philippines (1898–1946)|Americans arrived]], "slight changes in the structure of local government was effected".<ref name="Zamora">{{Cite book |last=Zamora |first=Mario D. |title=International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology: Politics and Social Change |publisher=E.J. Brill |year=1966 |editor-last=Karigoudar Ishwaran |location=Leiden, the Netherlands |pages=247–253 |chapter=Political Change and Tradition: The Case of Village Asia |access-date=November 12, 2012 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4K03AAAAIAAJ&q=%22barrio+lieutenant%22&pg=PA248}}</ref> Later, Rural Councils with four councilors were created to assist, now renamed Barrio Lieutenant; they were later renamed Barrio Council and then Barangay Council ([[Sangguniang Barangay]]).<ref name="Zamora" />

The [[Spanish language in the Philippines|Spanish]] term ''[[barrio]]'' (abbr. Bo.) was used for much of the 20th century. [[Manila]] mayor [[Ramon Bagatsing]] established the first Barangay Bureau in the Philippines, creating the blueprint for the barangay system as the basic socio-political unit for the city in the early 1970s. This was quickly replicated by the national government, and in 1974, President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] ordered the renaming of barrios to barangays.<ref name="LawPhilNet-PD557">{{Cite web |date=September 21, 1974 |title=Presidential Decree No. 557; Declaring All Barrios in the Philippines as Barangays, and for Other Purposes |url=http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_557_1974.html |access-date=March 1, 2016 |website=The LawPhil Project |location=Malacañang, Manila, Philippines}}</ref> The name survived the [[People Power Revolution]], though older people would still use the term ''barrio''. The Municipal Council was abolished upon the transfer of powers to the barangay system. Marcos used to call the barangay part of Philippine participatory democracy, and most of his writings involving the [[Ferdinand Marcos#Martial Law and the New Society|New Society]] praised the role of ''baranganic democracy'' in nation-building.<ref>Marcos, Ferdinand. 1973. ''"Notes on the New Society of the Philippines."''</ref>

After the People Power Revolution and the drafting of the [[1987 Constitution]], the Municipal Council was restored, making the barangay the smallest unit of Philippine government. The [[1989 Philippine barangay elections|first barangay elections]] held under the new constitution were held on March 28, 1989, under Republic Act No. 6679.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Looking back: The first barangay polls in PH |url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/93450-first-philippine-barangay-elections-may-1982 |access-date=March 4, 2018 |work=Rappler |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=COMELEC Web Development |title=Official COMELEC Website :: Commission on Elections |url=https://www.comelec.gov.ph/?r=References/RelatedLaws/ElectionLaws/SynchronizedBarangayandSK/RA6679 |access-date=March 4, 2018 |website=COMELEC |language=en}}</ref>

The last barangay elections were held in [[2023 Philippine barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections|October 2023]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cabico |first=Gaea Katreena |date=October 30, 2023 |title=Comelec: Long-delayed barangay, SK polls 'generally peaceful' despite localized violence |url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/10/30/2307727/comelec-long-delayed-barangay-sk-polls-generally-peaceful-despite-localized-violence |access-date=October 30, 2023 |work=Philstar.com}}</ref> The next elections will be held in December 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Javier |first=Paige |date=October 25, 2023 |title=Comelec: BSKE to push through in 2025 to abide by SC decision |url=https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/10/25/comelec-bske-2025-supreme-court.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030135345/https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/10/25/comelec-bske-2025-supreme-court.html |archive-date=October 30, 2023 |access-date=October 30, 2023 |work=CNN Philippines}}</ref>

== Organization ==
[[File:Barangay Officials Sign Board.jpg|thumb|right|Information sign at the boundary of Barangay Socorro in Quezon City listing the barangay's officials]]
[[File:Maybo Barangay Hall.jpg|thumbnail|right|Maybo's barangay hall in [[Boac, Marinduque]]]]
[[File:Sulop Barangay Hall.JPG|thumbnail|right|A barangay hall in [[Sulop]], Davao del Sur]]
[[File:Mariki Barangay Hall.jpg|thumbnail|Mariki's barangay hall in [[Zamboanga City]]]]

The modern barangay is headed by elected officials, the topmost being the [[barangay captain]]. The barangay captain is aided by the [[Sangguniang Barangay]] (Barangay Council), whose members, called [[barangay kagawad]] ("councilors"), are also elected. The barangay is often governed from its [[seat of local government]], the [[barangay hall]].

The council is considered a [[local government unit]] (LGU), similar to the provincial and municipal governments. The officials that make up the council are the barangay captain, seven barangay councilors, and the chairman of the Youth Council, or [[Sangguniang Kabataan]] (SK). Thus, there are eight members of the [[legislative council]] in a barangay.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Barangay |url=http://www.chanrobles.com/localgov3.htm |website=Local Government Code of the Philippines |publisher=Chan Robles Law Library}}</ref>

The council is in session for a new solution or a resolution of bill votes, and if the counsels and the SK are at a tie, the barangay captain uses their vote. This only happens when the SK, which is sometimes stopped and continued, In the absence of an SK, the council votes for a nominated Barangay Council president, and this president is not like the League of the Barangay Councilors, which is composed of barangay captains of a municipality.{{clarify|date=December 2024}}

The Barangay Justice System, or [[Katarungang Pambarangay]], is composed of members commonly known as the Lupon Tagapamayapa ([[justice of the peace]]). Their function is to conciliate and mediate disputes at the barangay level to avoid legal action and relieve the courts of docket congestion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Barangay Justice System (BJS), Philippines |url=http://accessfacility.org/barangay-justice-system-katarungang-pambarangay |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213140812/http://accessfacility.org/barangay-justice-system-katarungang-pambarangay |archive-date=December 13, 2013 |access-date=December 13, 2013 |website=ACCESS Facility}}</ref>

[[Barangay elections]] are non-partisan and are typically hotly contested. Barangay captains are elected by [[first-past-the-post]] plurality (no [[Exhaustive ballot|runoff voting]]). Councilors are elected by [[plurality-at-large voting]], with the entire barangay as a single [[at-large]] district. Each voter can vote for up to seven candidates for councilor, with the winners being the seven candidates with the most votes. Typically, a [[ticket (election)|ticket]] consists of one candidate for barangay captain and seven candidates for councilors. Elections, [[Inauguration|inaugurations]], and start of a new term and end of the current one for the post of ''punong barangay'', ''barangay kagawads'', and SK are usually held on various number of years and dates, with 2007 to 2013 are fixed to every three years and from October to November 30 of the year.

A barangay [[tanod]], or barangay police officer, is an unarmed [[Watchman (law enforcement)|watchman]] who fulfills policing functions within the barangay. The number of barangay tanods differs from one barangay to another; they help maintain law and order in the neighborhoods throughout the Philippines.

Funding for the barangay comes from their share of the [[Internal Revenue Allotment]] (IRA), with a portion of the allotment set aside for the Sangguniang Kabataan. The exact amount of money is determined by a formula combining the barangay's population and land area.

{| style="margin:auto;"
|-
|
{| style="margin:auto;"
|-
| {{Philippine LGU hierarchy}}
|}
|
|-
|
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; line-height:1.20em; background-color:#FAFFF5; margin:auto;"
|+ Number of local government units in the Philippines
! style="background-color:#E6E6FA;" | Type<br /><small>(''English'')</small>
! style="background-color:#E6E6FA;" | [[Filipino language|Filipino]]<br /><small>equivalent</small>
! style="background-color:#FFFFD3;" | Head of<br />administration
! style="background-color:#FFFFD3;" | Filipino<br /><small>equivalent</small>
! style="background-color:#E6C9E6;" | Number<ref name="psgc-update-2025-january">{{Cite web |last=Mapa |first=Claire Dennis |author-link=Dennis Mapa |date=January 30, 2025 |title=Fourth Quarter 2024 PSGC Updates: Correction of the Names of Three Barangays |url=https://psa.gov.ph/classification/psgc/node/1684066655 |access-date=March 22, 2025 |website=[[Philippine Statistics Authority]]}}</ref>
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" |[[Provinces of the Philippines|Province]]
| style="font-style:italic;" | Lalawigan/Probinsya
| Governor
| style="font-style:italic;" | Punong Lalawigan/Gobernador
| style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | 82
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | [[Cities of the Philippines|City]]
| style="font-style:italic;" | Lungsod/Siyudad
| Mayor
| style="font-style:italic;" | Punong lungsod/Alkalde
| style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | 149
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | [[Municipalities of the Philippines|Municipality]]
| style="font-style:italic;" | Bayan/Munisipalidad
| Mayor
| style="font-style:italic;" | Punongbayan/Alkalde
| style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | 1,493
|-
| Barangay
| style="font-style:italic; font-weight:bold;" | Barangay
| Barangay chairman/Barangay captain
| style="font-style:italic;" |  Punong-barangay/Kapitan ng barangay
| style="text-align:right; font-weight:bold;" | 42,011
|}
|}

== See also ==
{{portal|border=no|Cities|Philippines}}
* [[Poblacion]]
* [[Barrio]]
* [[Association of Barangay Captains]]
* [[Balangay]]
* [[Barangay Health Volunteers]]
* [[Purok]]
* [[Sitio]]

== Bibliography ==
* [[Renato Constantino|Constantino, Renato]]. (1975) ''The Philippines: A Past Revisited'' (volume 1). {{ISBN|971-8958-00-2}}
* Mamuel Merino, O.S.A., ed., ''Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas (1565–1615)'', Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1975.

== Notes==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110311080801/http://dilgbicol.org/legal/related-laws/item/409-katarungang-pambarangay-handbook.html Katarungang Pambarangay Handbook]
*{{commonscatinline}}

{{Philippines political divisions}}
{{Terms for types of administrative territorial entities}}
{{Articles on third-level administrative divisions of countries}}
{{Philippines topics}}

[[Category:Barangays of the Philippines|.]]
[[Category:Local government in the Philippines]]
[[Category:Subdivisions of the Philippines]]
[[Category:Human habitats]]
[[Category:Tagalog words and phrases]]
[[Category:Types of administrative division]]