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Catarman | |
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Municipality of Catarman | |
Location within the Philippines | |
Coordinates: 12°29′58″N124°37′58″E / 12.4994°N 124.6328°E | |
Country | Philippines |
Region | Eastern Visayas |
Province | Northern Samar |
District | 1st district |
Barangays | 55 (see Barangays) |
Government | |
• Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
• Mayor | Francisco Aurelio E. Rosales III |
• Vice Mayor | Francisco C. Rosales Jr. |
• Representative | Paul R. Daza |
• Councilors | List |
• Electorate | 61,074 voters (2022) |
Area | |
• Total | 464.43 km2 (179.32 sq mi) |
Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
Highest elevation | 142 m (466 ft) |
Lowest elevation | −1 m (−3 ft) |
Population (2020 census) [3] | |
• Total | 97,879 |
• Density | 210/km2 (550/sq mi) |
• Households | 20,836 |
Demonym | Catarmanon |
Economy | |
• Income class | 1st municipal income class |
• Poverty incidence | 20.64 |
• Revenue | ₱ 458.3 million (2020) |
• Assets | ₱ 962 million (2020) |
• Expenditure | ₱ 422.2 million (2020) |
Service provider | |
• Electricity | Northern Samar Electric Cooperative (NORSAMELCO) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
Zip Code | 6400 |
PSGC | |
IDD : area code | +63 (0)55 |
Native languages | Waray Tagalog |
Website | www |
Catarman, officially the Municipality of Catarman (Waray [Ninorte Samarnon]: Bungto san Catarman; Tagalog : Bayan ng Catarman), is a 1st class municipality and capital of the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 97,879 people. [3] It is the commercial, educational, financial, and political center of the province and also its most populous municipality.
Before the coming of the Spaniards, Catarman (also known as Calatman or Cataruman) was a settlement by the mouth of the river of the same name in the region called Ibabao. The Spanish Conquistadors applied the term Ibabao to the northern part of Samar island when it established its civil government. The similarities in the vocabularies and pronunciation of the dialects of these areas traces them to a common root as a people.
The town was one of the 13 villages and settlements and adopted as pueblos by the Spaniards in Samar Island and was one of the settlements in the northern parts of the island. The pueblo was named Calatman and was one of the pueblos in the Visayan islands, then collectively referred to as Islas de Pintados [Island of the Painted Ones].
In 1974, Catarman was made the center of the episcopal see of the then newly established Roman Catholic Diocese of Catarman comprising the Northern Samar province, with the Our Lady of the Annunciation Parish Church as the designated cathedral. [5]
In 2003, its application for cityhood was deterred after officials of the neighboring of towns Bobon, Lope de Vega, and Mondragon opposed the planned Catarman City conglomeration, which was necessary to meet the criteria for the approval of its bid for cityhood. Another bill was filed converting the Municipality of Catarman into a component city of Northern Samar but is still pending with the Committee on Local Government in the House of Representatives since July 2010. The rise of establishments and banking institutions has swiftly came and filled the spaces of Catarman that paved the way for it to become competitive.
In the 19th Congress of the Philippines, house bills were filed by various representatives which seeks Catarman including other capital towns of provinces with no current component cities, independent component cities or highly urbanized cities to automatically convert into cities. [6] [7] [8]
Catarman lies on the northern part of Samar Island, bounded to the east by Mondragon, to the west by Bobon, to the south by Lope de Vega, to the southwest by Calbayog City, and to the north by the Philippine Sea.
On the Pacific coast are flat lowlands with the interior characterized by outlying low hills. Mount Puyao in Barangay Liberty is the highest peak in the area. The Catarman River, a major provincial river, divides the eastern and the western parts of the town. It is fed by the Paticua, Hibulwangan, Mahangna, Tura, and Danao creeks together with less prominent estuaries.
Catarman is politically subdivided into 55 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
Climate data for Catarman, Northern Samar (1991–2020, extremes 1949–2020) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 34.2 (93.6) | 34.0 (93.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 37.2 (99.0) | 37.7 (99.9) | 38.0 (100.4) | 36.7 (98.1) | 37.1 (98.8) | 37.5 (99.5) | 35.5 (95.9) | 36.0 (96.8) | 34.3 (93.7) | 38.0 (100.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.3 (84.7) | 29.9 (85.8) | 30.7 (87.3) | 32.0 (89.6) | 33.1 (91.6) | 32.9 (91.2) | 32.3 (90.1) | 32.8 (91.0) | 32.6 (90.7) | 31.6 (88.9) | 30.8 (87.4) | 29.9 (85.8) | 31.5 (88.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.0 (78.8) | 26.2 (79.2) | 26.7 (80.1) | 27.6 (81.7) | 28.5 (83.3) | 28.4 (83.1) | 28.1 (82.6) | 28.5 (83.3) | 28.2 (82.8) | 27.6 (81.7) | 27.1 (80.8) | 26.6 (79.9) | 27.5 (81.5) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.7 (72.9) | 22.5 (72.5) | 22.6 (72.7) | 23.2 (73.8) | 23.9 (75.0) | 24.0 (75.2) | 23.9 (75.0) | 24.1 (75.4) | 23.9 (75.0) | 23.6 (74.5) | 23.5 (74.3) | 23.3 (73.9) | 23.5 (74.3) |
Record low °C (°F) | 16.9 (62.4) | 17.2 (63.0) | 17.6 (63.7) | 19.0 (66.2) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.8 (69.4) | 20.6 (69.1) | 19.4 (66.9) | 19.9 (67.8) | 17.8 (64.0) | 18.2 (64.8) | 16.9 (62.4) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 520.1 (20.48) | 310.5 (12.22) | 312.4 (12.30) | 152.5 (6.00) | 162.9 (6.41) | 217.3 (8.56) | 221.9 (8.74) | 167.7 (6.60) | 205.8 (8.10) | 331.9 (13.07) | 457.8 (18.02) | 689.9 (27.16) | 3,750.7 (147.67) |
Average rainy days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 21 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 185 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 89 | 87 | 86 | 84 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 83 | 84 | 86 | 88 | 89 | 86 |
Source: PAGASA [9] [10] |
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Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [11] [12] [13] [14] |
Poverty incidence of Catarman
10 20 30 40 50 2006 29.80 2009 43.38 2012 34.83 2015 36.02 2018 30.27 2021 20.64 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] |
PAL Express is the only airline operating through the Catarman National Airport, with flights between Manila and Catarman four times weekly. Flights are frequently booked well in advance due to ticket costs. Pedicabs and motorized tricycles are the means of transportation within the town. Jeepneys, vans, and buses are the means of transportation between Catarman and neighboring towns. Several vans and bus companies also operate to serve travelers between the town and Manila.
Catarman is home to the University of Eastern Philippines, the first state university in the Visayas and the largest university by student population and curriculum in Eastern Visayas. The university has satellite campuses in the province, one in Laoang and the other in Catubig (officially known the Pedro Rebadulla Memorial Campus), and has several extension programs offered across satellite campuses in the region.
Other prominent public and private educational institutions:
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