About the Community of Gabaldon

Brief History: (excerpt from the profile in the municipal records of Gabaldon)

            The town of Gabaldon is a valley with an area of 36,623 hectares and a population of 28,321 as of 2000. A fourth class municipality with a conglomeration of different ethnic groups namely: Tagalogs, Pampanguenos, Ilocanos, Bicolanos, Visayans, Pangasineses, Cebuanos and others. It is a lowland located at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains. Rich in natural resources, its forest have timber, rattan, wild life and minerals like white clay, manganese and others. With winding creeks, streams, rivers and roads, it is one of the remotest municipalities in Nueva Ecija. It has sixteen (16) barangays: (read more)

           The municipality is geographically locate Southwest of the provine and Southwest side of Fort Magsaysay. The valley is surrounded by hills and mountains of Sierra Madre. This is traversed by National Road which is 55.04 kilometers, more or less, from Cabanatuan City to Gabaldon passing Palayan City ang Laur, Nueva Ecija and boarded at the end by Dingalan, Aurora.

Gabaldon’s Origin:

            During the 80’s the place was thickly forested inhabited by wild animals. Foreigners and nature lovers frequented the place up to the 90’swith Dumagats as guides. This writer’s late father used to hunt in the mid 90’s. Later, because of its scenic Sierra Madre and fertile lands, wealthy people came from ventures. They tried to convert the thickly cogonal lowland areas into fruit tree plantations such as coconuts, avocados, caimitos, papayas, citrus and many others. Vast areas with abundant supply of water were cleared and converted into rice paddies. It was during the Spanish era when a wealthy man was known to be the owner of the place. Strangers and businessman sought this permission to till the land. His name was SABANI, the reason why the place was once named Sabani. He left when the Americans came. (read more)

TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

           Means of Transportation

      Gabaldon is accessible to the neighboring towns/cities and provinces by land with approximate total road network of 99.712 kilometers which are all classified into three (3) categories, namely National, Provincial and Barangay roads. The Barangay roads constitute the majority of the road network having an appropriate length of 72.212 kilometers. As for type of pavements, some are gravel and dirt road while the rest are paved with concrete. (read more)

Inventory of Land Transport Vehicles