page_title: Jaro, Iloilo City
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Jaro, Iloilo City / Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Mansion de Lizares or Villa Lizares (Angelicum School Iloilo) in Jaro, Iloilo City
context_page_description: Jaro, officially District of Jaro, is one of the seven districts of Iloilo City, in the province of Iloilo, on the island of Panay, in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Once a separate city, it merged when Iloilo City was re-incorporated in the 1940s during the American administration in the Philippines. Jaro is the largest of all districts of Iloilo City. The Iloilo City district of La Paz was once a former part of Jaro before it became separated, same with the present Iloilo Province's towns of Leganes and Pavia, which adjoined as historical parts of Jaro before becoming as separate municipalities during the Spanish and American colonial periods of the Philippines.
  Jaro lends its name to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jaro, the metropolitan see which covers the provinces of Antique, Guimaras, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental.
  The Jaro annual Catholic Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, the Roman Catholic patron of the whole Western Visayas and Romblon, held every February 2, is well known in the Philippines for its pomp and pageantry.
context_section_description: Historically, Jaro holds a high-concentration of Filipino-Mestizos and hosts many ancestral mansions of old Visayan families (of Mestizo descent). Family mansions such as those owned by the Lopez, Montinolla, Sanson, Luzariagga, De la Rama etc. families line the streets of this historic district. The French traveler Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy wrote of the place as such in his travelogues.
  Jaro is much bigger in size than Iloilo; it is a rich town, of mestizos who own great fortunes… the people of Haro are more civilized than those of the other neighboring towns (Molo and Iloilo). The color of their skin is whiter, consequence of a great mixture of European blood; and Spanish is spoken better there than in any place in the colony, the Capital excepted; the women are very beautiful and I can give assurance of this, having had the pleasure of being amongst them, that they have grace and figure and the features, which would call attention even in Europe. They show taste in their dress, which is rich and elegant and, like all mestizas, they show a lot of spirit.
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  At present, Jaro which holds the distinction as being the largest by land area of all the seven district of Iloilo City, also is the most populous. The economic boom in Iloilo City from 2010–2020, resulted to an urban sprawl converting the once grass fields in the areas of barangays or barrios of Sambag, Tacas, Balabago and Bitoon (Coastal Road), McArthur (from Tabuc Suba to Buntatala) sprouted with subdivisions, retail centers and stores, malls, car showrooms and other establishments, which doubled the district's number of households and population.
caption: Mansion de Lizares (Lizares Mansion) or Villa Lizares (Angelicum School Iloilo) are one of the notable mansions built by the old mestizo and old-rich Ilonggo families in Jaro.
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