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History of the Municipality of Santa Barbara covers four centuries. According to the Agustinian Archives, Vols. 1718, which records the documents on the missionary achievements of the Agustinians missionaries, it bares the historical note that as early as 1617, the missionaries attended to the spiritual ministration of a community or �pueblo� then known as Catmon. The name was derived from a fruit �bearing tree, which served as an imposing landmark in the vicinity. The place was a rich and fertile plain traverse by the Salug, now Tigum and Aganan Rivers, producing rice, corn, sugar, mongo and tobacco. During that time Catmon was only a �Visita Caatmon� of Jaro vicariate. Lately, in 1760, Catmon was canonically established as an independent parish, whose patroness was Santa Barbara, and the settlement, which was constituted in to �pueblo�, was named after her. Its total population at the time was 15,094. In 1845, its inhabitants reach a total of 19,719 and covering an area which are now the Municipalities of Zarraga, New Lucena and a part of Leganes and Pavia. Next
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