Municipality of Basista
Location
Map of Pangasinan showing the location of Basista.
Government
Region	Ilocos Region (Region I)
Province	Pangasinan
District	2nd District, Pangasinan
Barangays	13
Income class	4th class; rural
Mayor	Raul C. de Guzman
ZIP Code	2422
Physical characteristics
Area	24.00 km²
Population      Total	28,104

Basista is a 4th class municipality in the Province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 28,104 people in 4,871 households.

[edit] Barangays

Basista is politically subdivided into 13 barangays.

• Anambongan
• Bayoyong
• Cabeldatan
• Dumpay
• Malimpec East
• Mapolopolo
• Nalneran
• Navatat
• Obong
• Osmena Sr.
• Palma
• Patacbo
• Poblacion

[edit] History

The former barrio of Basista, now the site of the town proper or poblacion was once the biggest and one of the progressive barrios located in the far south of the mother town, San Carlos (now a city).

As early as the year 1918, some of the most influential and prominent citizens of the then barrio of Basista came together and made the first attempt to petition the municipal government and the provincial board of San Carlos and Pangasinan respectively to grant the township of their barrios.

Prominent politicians during that time volunteered their help in making representations with the proper authorities, but their request was not granted. Some of those leaders were: General Mamaril, Don Valeriano Perez, father of the late speaker Eugenio Perez, Buenaventura de Vera, Telesforo de Vera, Gregorio Malicdem, Cayetano Perez, Gaudencio Padua, Gregorio Valdez, Ramon Valdez, Don Roque de Vera, Domingo Resultay, Bernardo Resultay, Liberato Frias, Hipolito Cayabyab, Alejandro Cayabyab, Pascual Resultay, Raymundo de Guzman, Vicente de Guzman, Domingo de Guzman, Vicente Frias, Florentino Malicdem, Faustino Monzon, Cornelio de Guzman, Felix de Guzman and several others.

On September 5, 1961, President Carlos P. Garcia issued Executive Order No. 446 creating the town of Basista composed of 13 barrios out of the 28 that petitioned. Four years after, however, the Philippine Supreme Court declared the town's creation as without legal basis citing their ruling in the "Emmanuel Pelaez vs. Auditor General" that "municipalities created under Executive Orders are void". It was here that Republic Act No. 4866 filed by Congressman Jack L. Soriano was enacted into law and legally created Basista as a town of Pangasinan.

The mayor of Basista, Pangasinan (Dr. Raul de Guzman), is responsible for many public work projects that have made Basista the vibrant municipality that it is today. He is a licensed medical doctor as well as a University of Santo Tomas (UST) alumni.

[edit] External links

• Republic Act 4866 : An Act declaring Basista a duly constituted municipality of Pangasinan
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2007 Philippine Census Information

Coordinates: 15°51′N 120°24′E / 15.85°N 120.4°E / 15.85; 120.4