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Municipality of General Emilio Aguinaldo

Location
Map of Cavite showing the location of Gen. E. Aguinaldo.
Government
Region	CALABARZON (Region IV-A)
Province	Cavite
District	3rd district of Cavite
Barangays	14
Income Class:	5th class
Mayor	Danilo Bencito
Physical characteristics
Area	45.10 km²
Population      Total (2000)      Density	14,323 318/km²

The Municipality of General Emilio Aguinaldo (formerly Bailen; Filipino: Bayan ng Heneral Emilio Aguinaldo) is a fifth class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 14,323 people in 2,765 households. This is named after Emilio Aguinaldo.

General Emilio Aguinaldo is politically subdivided into 14 barangays (4 urban, 10 rural).

• A. Dalusag
• Batas Dao
• Castaños Cerca
• Castaños Lejos
• Kabulusan
• Kaymisas
• Kaypaaba
• Lumipa
• Narvaez
• Poblacion I
• Tabora
• Poblacion II
• Poblacion III
• Poblacion IV

The municipality of General Emilio Aguinaldo used to be a Catholic parish in the town of Maragondon. It was founded by virtue of a decree issued on August 28, 1857 by Archbishop Fray Aranguren, OSA, of the Archdiocese of Manila. The decree separated the barrios of Batas and Guyong-guyong from the town of Maragondon, naming the new parish Bailen. It is recounted that a group of citizens from Barrio Batas petitioned Spanish Governor General Fernando Norzagaray to convert their barrio into a municipality because of its distance from the town proper. Giving due course to the petition, the Spanish Governor approved the request on August 2, 1858. Bailen, the former name of the town, was coined from the Spanish word bailar, meaning to dance. Another claims that it was named after a Spanish town of the same name. The American civil government, from 1899-1901, reduced the number of town to facilitate the military policy of concentrating the civilian population of the poblaciones. The Philippine Commission approved Act 947 on October 15, 1903, annexing the municipalities of Bailen and Mendez to Alfonso. Bailen, thus became a barrio of Alfonso. The Philippine Commission, for the second time in 1904, reorganized the entire province of Cavite reducing its 22 municipalities to 9 groups of towns. Bailen was annexed to Mendez. Bailen was reconverted into an independent municipality in 1915, with the complete restoration of peace and order in Cavite.

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information