page_title: Jasaan, Misamis Oriental
section_title: Town center, poblacion
hierarchical_section_title: Jasaan, Misamis Oriental / Town center, poblacion
caption_attribution_description: English: Immaculate Conception Church Features and Details. Built on 1840 by Jesuits, this church is located in Jasaan, Misamis Oriental, Philippines.
context_page_description: Jasaan, officially the Municipality of Jasaan, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 54,478 people.
  It is approximately 28 kilometres east of the capital city of Cagayan de Oro. It borders on the municipalities of Villanueva, Claveria and Balingasag, while Macajalar Bay is to the west. Although its land is mostly rocky, it is able to maintain and support its lush vegetation and its main rivers, Cabulig, Dumagooc and Mandangisiao.
context_section_description: The town center or poblacion of Jasaan is a picture of the Spanish Catholic concept of settlement model–"bajo de las campanas"–where people live around the vicinity of the church within earshot of the peal of the bells.  There used to be a bell at the belfry of the Nuestra Senora de la Inmaculada Concepcion Church, where the peal could be heard as far as the hills of Natubo.
  This town center used to be one big poblacion, subdivided into nine puroks (hamlets):  Purok Uno, Purok Dos, Purok Tres, Purok Cuatro, Purok Cinco, Purok Seis, Purok Siete, Purok Ocho, and Purok Nueve.  In the 1960s, these villages adopted names, such as like Siga-Siga, Mauswagon and Mabuligon, etc.
  In the early 1970s, when martial law was in force, then-President Ferdinand Marcos (by a series of presidential decrees) made the barangay the basic political unit of Philippines.  The Centro, as it used to known, was then split into Upper Jasaan and Lower Jasaan.  Local residents would refer to these two as Ubos and Ibabaw, a vernacular indication of their geographical location in the slope: Ubos being Lower, and Ibabaw being Upper.  Despite the partition of the Poblacion into two barangays, the old village identifications–the Purok–are still generally referred to in the present Jasaan.
  Jasaan town plaza is a good example of the separation of church and state property.  A road runs through the middle of the plaza, making the demarcation line.  The portion fronting the centuries-old church belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, and on portion on the other side of the road is owned by the local government of Jasaan.
caption: Immaculate Conception Church
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