HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF BARANGAY ORANBO
Barangay Oranbo is trapezoid in shape and is ideally situated on the Northern part of Pasig, bounded on the North by San Antonio Village; on the North East by Barrio Kapitolyo; on the South East by Barangay Pineda; on the South by Barangay Bagong Ilog and on the West of Barangay Ugong. This former sleepy barrio is now blossoming into a commercial and Industrial community and once the seat of the Provincial Government of Rizal.
Oranbo was once a very sparsely populated hilly portion of the Ortigas Estate. It was only after the erection of a monumental edefice, the Rizal Provincial Capitol Building in a 12 hectare- land donated by Ortigas and Company under the supervision of Engr. Mariano G. Bondoc, during the term of the former Rizal Governor, Dr. Sixto Antonio that the place came to be known as one of the promising barangay of Pasig . Since then the barrio came to be habitated until the first residents requested that it be given a name. So in 1953, a coined name ORANBO was given to the barrio in respect to the three people who made possible the acquisiton of the land. OR came from the first two letters of ORTIGAS the donor of the land, An came from the first two letters of ANTONIO, the Provincial Governor of Rizal at that time and BO came from the first two letters of BONDOC who supervised the transfer and subdivision of the area. Thereafter, the place is now popularly known as ORANBO, a very promising community. As an independent community, it has also its barrio officials to look after its safety, peace, security, cleanliness and beautification. The first Barangay Captain of Oranbo was CORNELIO T. PENEYRA, succeeded by IRENEO DIAS, then by ADELA JAVIER and the late TIRSO PAAT, then ONEZIMO JAVIER, then AVELINO PAGALUNAN and NATI T. DALINA. The present leader is a very young and full of vision personality who served as a top Barangay Kagawad RICHIE M. PUA.
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