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BIBINCAHAN SORSOGON CITY

Created a barangay in 1916,Barangay Bibincahan is considered as one of the oldest barangays in the municipality.

It is also the most populated,having a population of more than 10,000 by receent count.The reason for this extraordinarily large concentration of people,compared to the other barangays,is because of the location here of several big subdivisions and housing projects.Located here are the Our lady's Village I and II,Sts.Peter and Paul Ville subdivision,a government housing project, and several other privately-operaterd smaller subdivisions and housing projects, including even a small housing project for former squater familes established by the Diocese of Sorsogon.

In fact, it is so thickly populated that there are now moves in the municipal goverment to subdivide Bibincahan into two or three smaller independent barangays.

Aslo located in the barangay is the OUr lady of Penafrancia Seminary ran by the Diocese of Sorsogon.There is also a large privately-owned Memorial Park in the barangay.

The barangay got its name from the native delicacy,'BIBINGKA', a native pie made of ground rice, young coconut meat, and sugar, baked with live charcoal fire below and above to create a crust all over.This delicacy was said to have been made in most households in this place,which is why it called 'BIBINGKAHAN', or the place where 'BIBINGKA' is made.The present spelling of the name of the place -Bibincahan-is a hispanized version.

The barangay, which has a land area of 513.49 hectares, and located about two kilometers from the poblacion, is bounded on the south by barangay Almendras-Cogon,on the west by Barangay San Juan, on the north by the municipality of bacon, on the northeast by Barangay Buhatan, and on the east by Barangay Balogo. This is the last barangay of the municipality before one enters the municipality of bacon,going north.