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Punta (Looc Romblon) is one of the 12 barangays of Municipality of Looc, Province of Romblon, Philippines. It is the sixth largest in land area with 611.45 hectares, and the second most populated to Poblacion (population of 3,045 according to 2007 census) with 2964 registered populace based on a 2007 census. ==History== Pre-Spanish records dating as early as 1571 narrate that the first wave of migrants in the province of Romblon were from Aklan who settled in the western-side of Looc river. They were called Onhan (Taga-Uma - pertaining to a person living or hailing from the countryside or with provincial roots). The villages stretched up to the present-day San Agustin (leadership was called Pueblo de Cabulotan). However, an epidemic killed the majority of the population of the island. The survivors included Alfredo Mirante, his wife, and daughter, Emerenciana. Alfredo Mirante was one of the survivors of a ship wrecked during the British occupation of the Philippines. He was originally from London.〔http://records.ancestry.com/Alfredo_Mirante_records.ashx?pid=101921262〕 The second wave of settlers established the communities in the present-day Odiongan and San Andres which included the Gaa and Gabat families. Alfredo Mirante's daughter, Emerenciana Mirante, married into the Gaa family. Asiang Gaa married Benito Gabat. They had one daughter, Maria Gabat. In 1844, (Spanish occupation) Looc was named a municipality but as a part of Capiz province. A couple of decades after, the whole of Romblon became a sub-province of Capiz wherein Looc was part of the Municipality of Tablas (one of the four municipalities of Romblon that time namely; Tablas, Romblon, Sibuyan and Maghali).〔http://www.carabaohotels.com/history.php〕 Punta became a barrio in 1854. Looc was then regarded as a municipality, and Romblon, a separate province. Punta used to have a population of 175 (1854 census). Maria Gabat married Exequiel Fontamillas, the first mayor of Odiongan, when the American colonization began. They had one daughter, Amparo Fontamillas. In 1916, the separate barrios of Guba, Cabugao, and Bagto (abolished on the same year) were fused with Punta. Amparo Fontamillas married Modesto Formilleza, the congressman during the first Philippine Congress.〔http://romblonpost.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=fbd579de4d46f10e20a06ec759f36546&topic=410.0, Si Leonardo F. Festin at ang batas komonwelt blg.581, June 3, 2011, 12:03:44 PM〕 He is listed on the plaque commemorating Philippine Independence from America under the giant flag parallel to the Rizal Monument in Luneta Park. After he died, barangays Guinhayaan, Manhac, and Tuguis, which used to be part of the Punta, were separated and formed into independent barangays on June 21, 1959. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Punta, Romblon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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