Del Gallego Danawin | |
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Municipality of Del Gallego | |
Motto: Sulong Del Gallego! | |
Location within the Philippines | |
Coordinates: 13°55′24″N122°35′46″E / 13.9233°N 122.5961°E | |
Country | Philippines |
Region | Bicol Region |
Province | Camarines Sur |
District | 1st district |
Founded | October 5, 1937 |
Barangays | 32 (see Barangays) |
Government | |
• Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
• Mayor | Melanie B. Abarientos-Garcia |
• Vice Mayor | Florencia G. Bargo |
• Representative | Tsuyoshi Anthony G. Horibata |
• Municipal Council | Members |
• Electorate | 18,530 voters (2022) |
Area | |
• Total | 208.31 km2 (80.43 sq mi) |
Highest elevation | 1,499 m (4,918 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Population (2020 census) [3] | |
• Total | 26,403 |
• Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
• Households | 6,104 |
Economy | |
• Income class | 4th municipal income class |
• Poverty incidence | 39.91 |
• Revenue | ₱ 128.4 million (2020), 65.39 million (2012), 60.38 million (2013), 68.16 million (2014), 78.27 million (2015), 8.536 million (2016), 97.53 million (2017), 104.8 million (2018), 138.1 million (2019), 140.5 million (2021), 227.4 million (2022) |
• Assets | ₱ 638.8 million (2020), 134.6 million (2012), 165.2 million (2013), 202 million (2014), 278.5 million (2015), 38.56 million (2016), 469 million (2017), 571.4 million (2018), 601 million (2019), 701.9 million (2021), 818.2 million (2022) |
• Expenditure | ₱ 105.8 million (2020), 52.77 million (2012), 57.92 million (2013), 55.01 million (2014), 59.2 million (2015), 62.32 million (2016), 63.86 million (2017), 75.75 million (2018), 95.02 million (2019), 99.28 million (2021), 125.7 million (2022) |
• Liabilities | ₱ 154.4 million (2020), 48.35 million (2012), 77.78 million (2013), 106.6 million (2014), 164.9 million (2015), 166.9 million (2016), 199.6 million (2017), 245.5 million (2018), 184.2 million (2019), 150.1 million (2021), 170.5 million (2022) |
Service provider | |
• Electricity | Quezon 1 Electric Cooperative (QUEZELCO 1) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
ZIP code | 4411 |
PSGC | |
IDD : area code | +63 (0)54 |
Native languages | Central Bikol Tagalog |
Website | www |
Del Gallego, officially the Municipality of Del Gallego (Central Bikol : Banwaan kan Del Gallego; Tagalog : Bayan ng Del Gallego), is a municipality in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 26,403 people. [3]
It is used to be called Danawin and located along Kilbay River (now, Sabang River). It was established through Executive Order No. 56 Series of 1936 signed by then President Manuel L. Quezon.
The municipality celebrates its 87th foundation anniversary on October 5, 2024.
According to the town's socio-economic profile in the year 1998, agricultural workers are greater in number reaching about 70% of the whole working force while the remaining 30% are engaged in non-agricultural occupations.
Del Gallego is the last town in the northwestern part of Camarines Sur. This is where the Quirino Highway (Andaya Highway) road meets with the first town of Quezon, Tagkawayan. It is 109 kilometres (68 mi) from Pili and 287 kilometres (178 mi) from Manila.
Del Gallego is politically subdivided into 32 barangays (villages). Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
Climate data for Del Gallego, Camarines Sur | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32 (90) | 31 (88) | 35 (95) | 37 (99) | 37 (99) | 35 (95) | 34 (93) | 34 (93) | 34 (93) | 33 (91) | 32 (90) | 31 (88) | 34 (93) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 26 (79) | 26 (79) | 28 (82) | 30 (86) | 31 (88) | 30 (86) | 29 (84) | 29 (84) | 29 (84) | 29 (84) | 28 (82) | 27 (81) | 29 (83) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 104.02 (4.10) | 52.53 (2.07) | 60.67 (2.39) | 95.79 (3.77) | 337.51 (13.29) | 344.38 (13.56) | 258.12 (10.16) | 169.08 (6.66) | 242.35 (9.54) | 268.86 (10.59) | 113.40 (4.46) | 303.9 (11.96) | 2,350.61 (92.55) |
Average rainy days | 24 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 30 | 31 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 30 | 324 |
Source: World Weather Online (modeled/calculated data, not measured locally) [5] |
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1939 | 4,883 | — |
1948 | 9,915 | +8.19% |
1960 | 11,820 | +1.48% |
1970 | 12,664 | +0.69% |
1975 | 13,754 | +1.67% |
1980 | 13,476 | −0.41% |
1990 | 17,047 | +2.38% |
1995 | 18,760 | +1.81% |
2000 | 20,456 | +1.87% |
2007 | 21,272 | +0.54% |
2010 | 23,064 | +2.99% |
2015 | 25,397 | +1.85% |
2020 | 26,403 | +0.77% |
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [6] [7] [8] [9] |
In the 2020 census, the population of Del Gallego was 26,403 people, [3] with a density of 130 inhabitants per square kilometre or 340 inhabitants per square mile.
Poverty incidence of Del Gallego
10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 51.60 2009 52.42 2012 37.49 2015 44.73 2018 30.59 2021 39.91 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] |
The Del Gallego Town Proper is strategic for fishing and farming. There are many businesses (local and international) in the Municipal Proper. Del Gallego has a port and operates daily to the Bondoc Peninsula and Batangas.
The Municipal Government is successfully improving the town and the towns people's lives.
Also due to its location between two Major town centers Sipocot and Tagkawayan it now serves as a rest stop.
• 1/3 of people rely on Agriculture
• 1/4 of people rely on fishing
• There are restaurants and several gas stations in the town
• There are hotels in and near the town
• It is more dependent on Tagkawayan for some market needs instead of Sipocot or Naga City
• Market days are usually on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and the market is least busy during Sundays.
• 94% of people have access to electricity
• People sell wood
• 89% of people have access to clean and potable water
• Its electricity is powered and supplied by Quezelco.
The municipality is connected with Manila by the Andaya Highway and daily rail services to and from Naga & Legazpi are provided by the Philippine National Railways.
In order to spur development in the municipality, The Toll Regulatory Board declared Toll Road 5 the extension of South Luzon Expressway. [18] A 420-kilometer, four lane expressway starting from the terminal point of the now under construction SLEX Toll Road 4 at Barangay Mayao, Lucena City in Quezon to Matnog, Sorsogon, near the Matnog Ferry Terminal. On August 25, 2020, San Miguel Corporation announced that they will invest the project which will reduce travel time from Lucena to Matnog from 9 hours to 5.5 hours. [19]
Another expressway that will serve Del Gallego is the Quezon-Bicol Expressway (QuBEx), which will link between Lucena and San Fernando, Camarines Sur. [20]
Del Gallego has a total of twenty-three (23) schools, twenty of which are public schools and the other three are private schools.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Elementary, Secondary and Tertiary/College Level)
PRIVATE SCHOOLS (Tertiary/College Level)
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