History
The fertile valley is the heart and center portion of Naneng Barangay Proper and where the first inhabitants/settlers, and/or aborigines resided before any foreigner arrived. Traditions says these aborigines were advanced already in agricultural endeavors, but what is lacking is the name of their village or barangay, until such a historical event happened and the term Naneng has evolved as a corruption of the four syllables Nambin-nanong to mean flood or deluge.
In the olden days there was continuo’s heavy rainfalls which alarmed and constrained the handful families to carry with them all they could as provisions for several days in the tallest mountains of Madaldalpong (three- pointed mountain peaks equi-distant to each other forming the shape of a stove) and stay there until the expected flood shall have abated/subsided. True as expected, the mouth/outlet of the Chico River at the eastern portion was closed/blocked by volume of earth and stones causing water to store in the valley from erosions of Madaldalpong Mountain.
The damped/stored water in the valley forced its way out by piercing through the closed outlet until the water subsided and the people returned home to their usual livelihood endeavors, lived their in and multiplied in number, thus Naneng Tribe was born according to the oral tradition.
Nambin-Nanong which means flood was the first name given to the barrio or barangay, but as time rolled on, the first two syllables Nambin were cut from the four syllable word leaving the christened the term Nanong into a more acceptable term Naneng, maintained up to the present as name of the barangay.
II. Creation – 1972
III. Land Area – 15.40 sq. km
IV. No. of sitios/puroks – 7 sitios
V. Population (2007 NSO census) - 561
VI. Major Products – Rice. Coffee, fruits, root crops, legumes, banana &
vegetables
