San Jose Sico is one of the 105 barangays comprising Batangas City

Batangas City

- Foreign Rule :The first Spanish missionaries arrived in Batangas City since 1572. Finally on 1581 Spanish authorities governing the Philippines created a pueblo in the area which included the hill where the present Provincial Capitol of Batangas stands after the formal end of the Coumintang...

, Philippines

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. As a physical rural community, the inhabitants itself enjoy some pleasures a rural folk has including freshness of air, rich cultivated fields and forest's dominance. Electrical supply on the other hand are both guaranteed by Batangas Electric Cooperative II (BATELEC II) being the main supplier and least by Meralco

Meralco

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 while access for potable water is guaranteed by some individual artesian wells and pumping stations.

Brgy. San Jose Sico is also the home of a Filipino actor, Ahron Villena

Ahron Villena

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Strategic location and topography

Brgy. Bilogo is situated about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Poblacion, Batangas City. The local vicinity is bounded by Ibaan Municipality

Ibaan, Batangas

Ibaan is a 4th class municipality in the Province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 45,649 people in 7,825 households....

 to the north; Brgy. Bilogo

Bilogo

This article refers to Barangay Bilogo, Batangas City. See Taysan Municipality for Barangay Bilogo, Taysan, Batangas. Bilogo is one of the 105 barangays constituting Batangas City, Philippines...

 to the west; Brgy. Mapulo, Taysan, Batangas to the east, and Brgy. Talumpok East to the south. Public transportations access to Brgy. San Jose Sico is provided by jeepney

Jeepney

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s enroute from Poblacion, Batangas City to Brgy. Dagatan, Taysan and Poblacion, Lobo

Lobo, Batangas

Lobo is a 4th class municipality in the Province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 37,798 people in 6,611 households....

, Batangas

Batangas

Batangas is a first class province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. Its capital is Batangas City and it is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east. Across the Verde Island Passages to the south is the...

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The topography is entirely a rural area that provides a close terrain of plains and rolling hills dominated mostly by forests. Large numbers of tropical trees like fruit-bearings as well as crops are substantially presence everywhere. Numerous stream

Stream

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s counting less than 20 are also present throughout the local community although some were extremely polluted due to improper disposal of agricultural wastes coming from pigpens

Sty

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. However, two much larger streams or definitely a little rivers are sited northeast and south of the locale that serves as a frontier for Brgy. San Jose Sico itself. Several terms like "Katmon" and "Talumpok" are used to name the two little rivers. Residential areas are mostly located along the national and minor roads.

Significant locations and communities

There are large communities located in Brgy. San Jose Sico. A few of them is the San Jose Sico Relocation Site owned by the local government of Batangas City

Batangas City

- Foreign Rule :The first Spanish missionaries arrived in Batangas City since 1572. Finally on 1581 Spanish authorities governing the Philippines created a pueblo in the area which included the hill where the present Provincial Capitol of Batangas stands after the formal end of the Coumintang...

 created for the sake of minimizing squatters' problems in Batangas City and Sitio Cumba. The City Jail on the other hand is located therein.

Some of Gawad Kalinga's communities or villages in Batangas City are located in Brgy. San Jose Sico counting less than 10. Meanwhile, there are three schools situated throughout Brgy. San Jose Sico; two of them are public (Brgy. San Jose Sico and Bagong Silang Elementary Schools) and the rest is private (Batangas God's Grace Christian Academy).

Batangas City's landfill

Landfill

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 once sited in Brgy. Tingga Labac was moved to Brgy. San Jose Sico and is now currently located far northwest of the community away from residential areas.

External links

1. Official Website of the Local Government of Batangas City