Cateel, Davao Oriental

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Cateel
Municipality of Cateel
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Cateel
Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 7°47′N126°27′E / 7.78°N 126.45°E / 7.78; 126.45 Coordinates: 7°47′N126°27′E / 7.78°N 126.45°E / 7.78; 126.45
Country Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines
Region Davao Region (Region XI)
Province Davao Oriental
District 1st District
FoundedOctober 29, 1903
Barangays 16 (see Barangays)
Government
[1]
  Type Sangguniang Bayan
   Mayor Erlinda C. Nuñez
   Vice Mayor Camilo T. Nuñez
  CongressmanCorazon N. Malanyaon
  Electorate27,964 voters (2019)
Area
[2]
  Total545.56 km2 (210.64 sq mi)
Population
 (2015 census) [3]
  Total40,704
  Density75/km2 (190/sq mi)
Economy
   Income class 2nd municipal income class
   Poverty incidence 30.61% (2015) [4]
  Revenue (₱)137,649,998.41 (2016)
Time zone UTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code
8205
PSGC
IDD : area code +63(0)87
Climate type tropical rainforest climate
Native languagesDavawenyo
Surigaonon
Cebuano
Kalagan language
Kamayo
Mandaya
Website www.cateel.gov.ph

Cateel, officially the Municipality of Cateel, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 40,704 people. [3]

Davao Oriental Province in Davao Region, Philippines

Davao Oriental is a province in the Philippines located in the Davao Region in Mindanao. Its capital is Mati, and it borders the province of Compostela Valley to the west, and Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur to the north. The province is the traditional homeland of the Mandaya and Kagan people.

Philippines Republic in Southeast Asia

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Situated in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City, both part of Metro Manila. Bounded by the South China Sea on the west, the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest, the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north, Japan to the northeast, Vietnam to the west, Palau to the east, and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south.

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Cateel is the home of the Aliwagwag Falls, located at barangay Aliwagwag within the Aliwagwag Protected Landscape. It is a towering waterfalls considered by hydraulic engineers as the highest in the country and regarded as one of the most beautiful falls in the Philippines. It is a series of 84 falls appearing like stairway to heaven with various heights among the steps ranging from 2 to 33.5 metres (7 to 110 ft). One step is measured 22 metres (72 ft) and another is 20 metres (66 ft). Overall Aliwagwag Falls has a height of 340 metres (1,120 ft) and a width of 20 metres (66 ft). All these in the midst of virgin forest, with a river at the foot of the falls. 13 rapids to cross.

Aliwagwag Protected Landscape Philippine protected area

The Aliwagwag Protected Landscape is a protected area that preserves a major drainage catchment in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao in the Davao Region. It contains the headwaters of the Cateel River in the southern Diuata Mountain Range which provides the water source and irrigation for surrounding rice fields and communities in Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley provinces. It was named after the remote rural village in the municipality of Cateel where Aliwagwag Falls, the country's highest waterfall, is located.

History

Aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Cateel Aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Cateel, Davao Oriental.jpg
Aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in Cateel

Cateel is the first municipality in Mindanao. It was the place where Spaniards first docked in Mindanao which reflects how majority of its primary inhabitants converted to Catholicism.

In 1959,the Mainit and Alegria were converted into barrios. [5]

The municipality was one of the hardest-hit towns of Typhoon Bopha when it hit the town on December 3, 2012. [6]

Typhoon Bopha Pacific typhoon in 2012

Typhoon Bopha, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pablo, was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to ever affect the southern Filipino island of Mindanao, making landfall as a Category 5 super typhoon with winds of 175 mph (280 km/h). The twenty-fourth tropical storm, along with being the fourth and final super typhoon of the 2012 Pacific Typhoon season, Bopha originated unusually close to the equator, becoming the second-most southerly Category 5 super typhoon, reaching a minimum latitude of 7.4°N on December 3, 2012, as only Typhoon Louise-Marge of 1964 came closer to the equator at this strength, at 7.3°N. After first landfalling in Palau, where it destroyed houses, disrupted communications and caused power outages, flooding and uprooted trees, Bopha made landfall late on December 3 on Mindanao, an island that had been devastated by the much weaker Tropical Storm Washi in December 2011. The storm caused widespread destruction on Mindanao, leaving thousands of people homeless and killing 1901 people.

Barangays

Cateel is politically subdivided into 16 barangays.

Barangay equivalent of a village or neighborhood in the Philippines

A barangay or baranggay, sometimes referred to as barrio, is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. In metropolitan areas, the term often refers to an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood. The word barangay originated from balangay, a kind of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines.

Demographics

Population census of Cateel
YearPop.±% p.a.
1903 4,101    
1918 5,906+2.46%
1939 9,243+2.16%
1948 10,671+1.61%
1960 14,586+2.64%
1970 14,633+0.03%
1975 15,849+1.61%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1980 20,084+4.85%
1990 26,144+2.67%
1995 27,211+0.75%
2000 28,655+1.11%
2007 33,109+2.01%
2010 38,579+5.72%
2015 40,704+1.03%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [3] [7] [8] [9]

Climate

Climate data for Cateel, Davao Oriental
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Average high °C (°F)27
(81)
27
(81)
28
(82)
30
(86)
30
(86)
30
(86)
30
(86)
30
(86)
30
(86)
30
(86)
29
(84)
28
(82)
29
(84)
Average low °C (°F)23
(73)
23
(73)
23
(73)
23
(73)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(74)
Average precipitation mm (inches)160
(6.3)
127
(5.0)
96
(3.8)
62
(2.4)
141
(5.6)
197
(7.8)
185
(7.3)
186
(7.3)
183
(7.2)
181
(7.1)
128
(5.0)
111
(4.4)
1,757
(69.2)
Average rainy days20.017.215.913.923.827.228.128.227.027.021.318.7268.3
Source: Meteoblue [10]

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