There’s this place in Batangas called Balete. It officially became a town in 1969.
It used to be one of the original sites of Lipa. But catastrophic eruptions of Taal Volcano during the 1700s forced the people of Lipa to relocate to its location at present. This left Balete, a place where there was abundance of balete trees, to be downgraded to a barrio of Lipa.
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