Many and many years ago, an early Malayan settlement was founded at a remote area sandwiched between two big bodies of water now know as the Batangas Bay and the Balayan Bay. This land is a peninsula, mountainous with rugged terrain and with luxuriant vegetation. People hereabouts were the Malay settlers who had migrated from the island of Borneo and descendants of Datu Kumintang who occupied the southwestern part of the island of Luzon.

In the center part of this peninsula was a valley enclosed by towering mountains with the exhilarating height of over 500 feet above sea level.

In this settlement of a common Malayan village, rose the power as leader of the people one Datu Niogan. He was young, handsome, brave and a warrior of great renown. Datu Niogan ruled over the settlement neither with iron-gloves nor with a soft hand such that the people live in happiness, prosperity and with abundance.

Datu Niogan was a sportsman, the best in athletics and great in hunting, such that he was the talk of many of his realm. He was loved by everyone, man and woman, and every lady of note dream of him. He was the ideal of man. He was the ideal man of everyone.

In the name peninsula further from the settlement of Datu Niogan lived another tribe, also belonging to the Malay stock. The settlement was some fifteen kilometers further into the hinterlands. The settlements was ruled not by a man but by a beateus amazon Princess Pulong-Perla, ruler of the neighboring tribe was known through the land, aside from being a beautiful woman, a brave warrior, a great in the use of the bow and arrow, swift in handling the bladed weapons and that the people of the neighboring area were afraid of her.

The relation between the two tribes were for the first time amiable and peaceful. However, in the course of time they because bitter enemies as the Datu would not accept that a woman shall be brave as Pulong-Perla be littled the courage of Datu-Niogan. As relations between the tribes continued to worsen, Princess Pulong-Perla cast a glance towards the settlements of Datu Niogan as a valued prize to enlarge her kingdom.

Pulong-Perla, following the proverbial wiles of women sent her emissary to Datu Niogan to test of strengths between the two tribes. She offered a competition in athletics between their warriors.

On the one hand Datu Niogan counter-offered a test of courage between Pulong-Perla and him, with the right to select the kind of weapon to be used by Pulong-Perla with the future condition that the vanquished became the slave of the victor. The challenge was readily accepted by Princess Pulong-Perla provided however that combat shall be to the death. The death and place was set for the showdown between the Datu and the Princess and maybe the beginning of the consolidation into one realm of the whole peninsula.

Preparations were made in their respective camps with the Princess having been trained by the best of swordsmen and bowmen of her land. On the other hand Datu Niogan trained hard believing that Princess Pulong-Perla was a hard antagonist. The day of the combat came and the people of both tribes were already and gaily dressed to watch the occasion. Princess Pulong-Perla was dressed in the most exotic attire and elegant from head to foot equipped with the best award and carrying her bow and arrow. Datu Niogan is his kingly bearing of a young and handsome warrior carried nothing in his hand but the finest of flowers gathered in the very sanctum of his realm. And when the two met, Datu Niogan, offered the roses and said to the Princess supposed to be his adversary, "I do not come to fight a woman but I came to offer the roses gathered from the hearts of my people as an emblem of our everlasting love for you, Princess Pulong-Perla". Pulong- Perla was a fascinated and marveled at the greatness of his heart and the kingly-hearing this warrior standing before her which may unite their people into a great realm, which shall be a famous country in this part of Luzon. The Princess ceased aside the bow and arrow, threw away her bladed weapon and called upon her people to follow her kneel before this Lord who shall from now on rule over her tribe for between them shall be no rancer but eternal love shall reign.

Both people knelt to their Datu and Princess and on the top of their voices shouted, Mabuhay ang Pulong Niogan", meaning to say that the land formerly of the tribe of Datu Niogan and of the tribe of Princess Pulong-Perla shall be combined into one and shall henceforth be called Pulong Niogan, the great realm of Datu Niogan and Princess of Pulong-Perla.

The above narration can only be a legend but as Shakespeare said, "Legends are the connecting links between facts and history", so Pulong Niogan is a real fact, a thriving community in the town of Mabini, Province of Batangas.

To make the story short, it can be said that Pulong Niogan has dominated politically, socially, and economically the whole peninsula, now composing the town of Mabini. Since time immemorial considering the fact that hundreds of years ago, this barrio was seat of power of the lords of the tribes hereabouts.

Incidentally upon the advent of democratic government when leaders of the community are selected through elections, the barrio swayed its leadership over the whole unicipality. The first municipal President was Captain Francisco Castillo who was a native of the barrio of Pulong Niogan, although he became a resident of the Poblacion, President Castillo was succeeded by another leader, President Nicolas Abarintos also a native of Pulong Niogan, who ruled one term. President Abarintos was succeeded by one Mr. Indalencio Calangi who happened to be from the barrio of Talaga. But in the succeeding election, another man from Pulong Niogan won to become President and he was President Julian Bautista. After two tems of Julian Bautista came again the rule of Mr. Indalecio Calangi, during the Japanese occupation.

But upon liberation from the Japanese by the Americans and the return of the Civil Government in the Philippines under Americans, the reign opf municipal administration came into the hands of Mayor Rafael P. Amurao. He ruled Mabini from 1946 to 1963 successively for 18 years. Incidentally again, Mayor Amurao was a native of Pulong Niogan ruled the said Municipality of 35 years.

It maybe worth mentioning that the sons of Pulong Niogan have brought lustre and prestige to the town of Mabini, by the achievements of such persons, like Brig. Gen. Agaton Panopio, Mr. Miguel Axalan and Mr. Eusebio Panopio, who have grown rich in Davao, the late Principal Anselmo Sandoval who was the first teacher and principal of the Mabini Elementary School, and last but not the least, and exploits of Mayor Rafael Amurao, who had been Secretary of the Batangas Mayors League of the Philippines, Editor- Publisher of the Batangas Reporter, President of the St. Francis Academy, and now the Provincial Secretary of Batangas Province.

In passing, 1st it be mentioned as part of this narration that in the barrio of Pulong Niogan is the Mabini Elementary School, which can be considered as unique and no parallel because usually central elementary school are located in the barrio of Pulong Niogan This public school is a tourist spot as it is considered as one of the most beautifully located, as it is nestling at the foot of Mt. Mailayin, with its terraced vegetable and flower gardens, its Baguio-like-amphitheater, open air stage and with the ever luxuriant vegetation surrounding it, the whole year round.

Furthermore, aside from the natives of this barrio who became municipal presidents or mayor, this barrio can take pride of the military achievements of Brig. Gen Agaton Panopio and the many sons of this barrio who had depended their country in the second world war and saw service in Bataan and Corregidor, and those young men of this barrio who joined the resistance movement during the Japanese occupation and offered their lives to the defense of their country and as they are very many they cannot all be made mentioned here.

This is, as I believe that history of the barrio of Pulong Niogan borne on the legends and fictions of yours, interwined by facts of history and worth the remembrance of the people of Barrio Niogan, and of the Municipality of Mabini, Province of Batangas.

The whole Calumpang Peninsula was once upon a time the land of Pulong Niogan during the Spanish Era. It was ruled by only a datu, forerunner of whom was the said Datu Niogan and his beloved better-half, Princess Pulong-Perla. Upon the conquest of Spain of this archipealgo, the whole country was divided into provinces and provinces into pueblos, and pueblos into barrios. The Calumpang peninsula became a part of the pueblos into barrios. The Calumpang peninsula was subdivided into 12 barrios. The biggest of which is the barrio of Pulong Niogan, nestling between the hills and the Mailayin Mountain, forming an enclosed valley of more than 500 feet above sea level.

As constituted in the Spain time, this barrio was bounded on the North by the Mailayin Mountain, on the East by Batangas Bay, on the South y the barrio of Pulong Balibaguhan, and on the West by Anilao and Pulong Anahao.

Over three hundred years, the barrio of Pulong Niogan was a part of the pueblo of Bauan, and upon the advent of the American occupation and during the administartion of Govt. General Leonard Wood, the whole of the Calumpang Peninsula including all the 12 barrios, seceded from the mother municipality of Mabini. on January 11, 1918.

When the people of the Calumpang peninsula advocated the creation for the municipality of Mabini they selected the barrio of Pulong Niogan as the seat of the municipal government. The town site or the Poblacion was carved out of the barrio of Pulong Niogan.