Before, the river that bounded Consolacion and the present barangay was deep and wide unlike today were it looks like a creek. It is located at the foot of the hillside of the northern part of the barangay. As you can see at present that from the corner of Alinsug st., Dunggu-an, the boundary of barangay Basak and Jagobiao, it is already uphill. Then when you reach the top, it’s all downhill towar
ds the river. The early residents of this place would go down the hill to wash their clothes and take a bath in the river (biao). Now after taking a bath or washing their clothes, the people would have to hike up to slope of the hill towards were they would have to go. Women would have to slowly ascend towards the hill carrying with them their heavy washed clothes. The people called the river(biao) as hugo (Tiresome). The people would complain to the location of the river saying, “Aguy, pwerteng ka hagong bi-aoa.” (Goodness what a tiresome river.) From that time on, the people would call the river by nickname as Hagong biaoa until the Spanish era when the letter H was changed into J. The river was then the identifying mark of the place if ever someone would go to the area. The term Hagong biao was later shortened to Jagobiao as time passed by. So when asked where they’d came from or where they were going, the people would just remark, “Adtomi’s Jagobiao” (We’re going to the tiresome river.) That was how the barangay got its name.
