San Juan, formerly Lapog, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 23,146 people in 4,866 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_ilocos_sur_san_juan. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Ilocos Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

Barangays

San Juan is politically subdivided into 32 barangays. A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ...

I visited relatives in Solotsolot in 2000 and 2003. It's a pleasant village strung out along the seashore with farms stretching back into the valley behind. There's a wonderful beach but the locals generally are too shy to wear any swim suit so for the occasional swim, they wear full clothing of T-shirts and jeans. The beach was the place the enormous Japanese invasion force landed in 1941. The total population might now be more than 1000. There's a school, no health infrastructure, and a dozen or so small shops. Almost all the houses now have electricity. Many people speak English and most are kind and pleasant (with only a few obnoxious exceptions). For income, US$10 is big money: teen girls work harvesting onions or beans in blazing fields for about 50 pesos per day (or just over US$1) and a tube of lipstick for them is about 60 pesos. It's not easy to get in to the village. The buses roar through nearby San Juan fairly often but one needs a local 'tricyle' (motorbike+sidecar taxi) to go along the back dirt road out to the village - the fee is about 50 pesos but the driver will often ask for more (if you seem to be a gringo, they can ask for huge amounts without really expecting to get them). There's no inn or hotel and sleeping near the beach is not a good idea. We stayed in a local house with relatives and we were the celebrities of the place for the week we were there - they put on a fiesta with a roast pig and VERY GOOD local singers, dancers, and guitar players - and we gave about 1000 pesos to help with the cost - many other local families gave 500 pesos each - they really wanted us to settle there (where we would have been a huge boost to their economy and a huge source of prestige and entertainment). There are 'captains' in charge of each neighbourhood and I imagine one would make a major effort to please a suitably pleasant, respectable visitor: not welcome are any patronizing, rudeness, indecency, or dishonesty. We plan to visit again in 2008.

External links

• Pasyalang Ilocos Sur
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information

• Lapog ... our town, our home

• Lapoguenio Perspectives

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