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Luisiana occupies 6,379 hectares in a plateau 1,400 feet atop Sierra
Madre mountain bounded by the towns of Majayjay in the west, Cavinte,
Laguna in the north, Sampaloc and Mauban, Quezon in the east, and
Lucban, Quezon in the south. It
has fifteen barrios: De la Paz, San Diego, San Domingo, San Pablo,
San Roque, San Antonio, San Isidro, San Juan, San Pedro, San Salvador,
San Buenaventura, San Jose, San Luis, San Rafael, and Santo Tomas.
The climate is pleasantly cool all year round.
The soil is fertile and planted to pandan and coconut trees intersperse
with several rice fields. The pandan leaves provide a major source
of income to many farmers. It is used to make hats, mats and baskets
or “balulang”. The
town is a major source of copra from Coconut trees which fruits are
harvested every three months. Copra (smoked/dried coconut meat) contains
valuable oil which is a main ingredient in margarine and soap. The
coconut tree provide "tuba" which could be fermented into
excellent vinegar (suka) or distilled into liquor (lambanog).
Most of the inhabitants are either professionals, businessmen, skilled
workers or farmers. They have relatives working abroad and/or in some
major cities of the country. Summer months particularly during the
Holy Week period have been the homecoming season of many Luisianians
who have settled abroad.
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