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  • The barangay envisions a community that is culturally and spiritually conservative in relating to the social realms, fostering cooperation with partnership in development and mindful of each other progress;
  • A community of God-fearing and peace-loving people who are also ethical and with spiritual fulfillment giving valued importance to affinity and belongingness and imposing social responsibility;
  • Upholds potential in prosperity by the unified concern in managing the natural resources;
  • Develop tourism;
  • Creative in sustaining the conscious effort to develop a farming system that is in adherence with the agro-ecosystem implying a satisfying relationship with nature; and
  • To finally exhort sound policies in leadership guided by a strong desire for the unconditional alleviation of the hardships in life.

  • To develop a sustainable barangay committed at maintaining a dynamic and vibrant barangay leadership avoiding biases in order to maintain effective and efficient local governance;
  • To develop, establish and strengthen the partnership among GO’s, NGO’s and PO’s in the community;
  • To conserve, preserve, protect and enhance regenerative capability of the natural resource heritage;
  • To adopt innovative farming system applicable to local conditions and accepted by the indigenous farmers; and
  • Uphold the desirable personalities in development derived from norms uniting the aspirations of the community.

LEGAL BASIS OF CREATION:

Barangay Paoay was created from its mother barangay, Abiang, sometime in 1951. This was through the leadership of Mayor Asingco Moltio, in accordance with Republic Act 3950 otherwise known as the Revised Barrio Charter.

SITIOS:

  1. Beckes
  2. Bonglo
  3. Bosleng
  4. Englandad
  5. Paoay Proper
  6. Sayangan

BOUNDARIES:

  • North – Barangay Cattubo, Atok
  • East – Municipality of Kabayan
  • West – Barangay Pasdong, Atok and Barangay Abiang, Atok
  • South – Barangay Abiang, Atok

DISTANCE TO MAJOR POINTS (BARANGAY HALL TO…):

  • To Provincial Capitol (La Trinidad): 44 kilometers
  • To Municipal Hall (Sayangan) : 50 kilometers
  • To National Highway : 110 meters
  • To Regional Center (Baguio City) : 50 kilometers

TOTAL LAND AREA:

2,625.7906 Hectares

CLIMATE:

Like the other areas in the Province of Benguet, the barangay has two (2) pronounced seasons. The wet season starts in the month of May and ends in the month of October. Heavy rainfall is experienced during the months of July and August. The dry season starts in the month of November and ends in the month of May.

Paoay means grassland. This scene can be viewed at Km. 50 to Km. 54 of Halsema Highway. This is a vast plateau which, as stated earlier, was grassland with shrubs. Tall trees did not thrive there because of the extreme cold weather which does not permit growth for tall trees.

In the local dialect, “Paoay” refers to a barren flatland. This term was used by the original settlers to describe their community.

At present, Paoay is known as one of the vegetable-producing barangays in the Municipality of Atok and the whole of Benguet.

The first inhabitants of Paoay were Lao and his daughters namely Banog, Olis, and Tawa, who settled in the area in 1750. They were believed to have migrated from one village in the old Mountain Province. Sad-ang and Lulbong followed but after a few years, they left Paoay in search of a more habitable terrain in Tinoc, Ifugao.

Meanwhile, Calpo, who was one of those who migrated from Tinoc, Ifugao due to armed conflict, stayed and settled in Paoay where he raised his own family. Calpo intermarried with the descendants of Dukyog and Esteban, the alleged first inhabitants of Paoay.

In the early 1900s (1902), Celo from Kapangan, and Haight, an American, came and settled in Paoay, Atok.

As early as 1900, a road traversing the Municipality of Atok including Paoay was constructed to connect Baguio and Mountain Province. This is Halsema Highway named in honor of its builder, Engineer Eusebio Halsema.

Also in 1900, Franklin Guy Haight and his Engineering Corps that constructed the Kennon Road built Haight’s resort in Paoay. This is known as Haight’s Place, one of the tourist spots of the barangay. During his stay, Mr. Haight introduced scientific vegetable farming and the culture of tropical plants like cabbage, potato, sweet peas, and turnips.