Pura | |
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Municipality of Pura | |
Location within the Philippines | |
Coordinates: 15°37′29″N120°38′53″E / 15.6248°N 120.648°E | |
Country | Philippines |
Region | Central Luzon |
Province | Tarlac |
District | 1st district |
Founded | 1877 |
Barangays | 16 (see Barangays) |
Government | |
• Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
• Mayor | Freddie D. Domingo |
• Vice Mayor | John Paul Balmores |
• Representative | Jaime D. Cojuangco |
• Electorate | 18,041 voters (2022) |
Area | |
• Total | 31.01 km2 (11.97 sq mi) |
Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
Highest elevation | 40 m (130 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 17 m (56 ft) |
Population (2020 census) [3] | |
• Total | 25,781 |
• Density | 830/km2 (2,200/sq mi) |
• Households | 6,559 |
Economy | |
• Income class | 4th municipal income class |
• Poverty incidence | 5.59 |
• Revenue | ₱ 113.3 million (2020) |
• Assets | ₱ 263.5 million (2020) |
• Expenditure | ₱ 98.34 million (2020) |
• Liabilities | ₱ 27.52 million (2020) |
Service provider | |
• Electricity | Tarlac 1 Electric Cooperative (TARELCO 1) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
ZIP code | 2312 |
PSGC | |
IDD : area code | +63 (0)45 |
Native languages | Pangasinan Ilocano Tagalog Kapampangan |
Website | www |
Pura, officially the Municipality of Pura (Pangasinan : Baley na Pura; Ilocano : Ili ti Pura; Tagalog : Bayan ng Pura), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,781 people. [3]
The municipality of Pura is located at the northeastern part of the Province of Tarlac, surrounded by the municipalities of Ramos (about 5 km to the north), Victoria (6.5 km to the south), Gerona (6 km to the west), and Guimba in Nueva Ecija (14 km to the east). It is about 19 kilometres (12 mi) from the provincial capital Tarlac City, 78 kilometres (48 mi) from the regional center San Fernando, Pampanga, 55 kilometres (34 mi) from Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) in Angeles City, and 145 kilometres (90 mi) north of Manila.
Pura has a total land area 3,142 hectares (31.42 km2; 12.13 sq mi) which represents 1.02% of the entire provincial area. It comprises 16 barangays of which barangays Poblacion 1, 2, and 3 are considered urban area and the rest are considered rural. The land area per barangay is shown in the table below.
It is one of the exits of the Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEX).
The Municipality of Pura is plain, slope-less.
The soil series of Pura are light brownish gray to heavy black granular surface soil. When dry, they are hard and compact and break into big clogs. The subsoil is brownish to nearby black columns to coarse granular clay loam. The municipality of Pura has two (2) distinct soil types: Luisita fine sand loam and Pura clay loam.
Climate data for Pura, Tarlac | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °C (°F) | 30 (86) | 31 (88) | 33 (91) | 35 (95) | 33 (91) | 31 (88) | 30 (86) | 29 (84) | 29 (84) | 30 (86) | 31 (88) | 30 (86) | 31 (88) |
Average low °C (°F) | 19 (66) | 19 (66) | 20 (68) | 22 (72) | 24 (75) | 24 (75) | 24 (75) | 24 (75) | 23 (73) | 22 (72) | 21 (70) | 20 (68) | 22 (71) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3 (0.1) | 2 (0.1) | 5 (0.2) | 10 (0.4) | 80 (3.1) | 107 (4.2) | 138 (5.4) | 147 (5.8) | 119 (4.7) | 70 (2.8) | 26 (1.0) | 8 (0.3) | 715 (28.1) |
Average rainy days | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 4.6 | 16.1 | 20.8 | 24.0 | 23.0 | 21.4 | 15.5 | 8.0 | 3.2 | 143 |
Source: Meteoblue [5] |
Pura, just like any other town in the province of the Tarlac has two (2) pronounced seasons. The wet season that starts from May up to lasts up to September and dry from the month of October to April. This type of climate is typically hot, humid, and tropical and is generally affected by the neighboring topography and prevalent wind direction that varies within the year. Tropical monsoon is carried into the area from the southeast in the month of May to September thereby causing heavy rainfall in the area. Most of the rainfalls are associated with typhoons.
Pura is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. [6] Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1903 | 4,840 | — |
1918 | 5,333 | +0.65% |
1939 | 7,005 | +1.31% |
1948 | 9,508 | +3.45% |
1960 | 10,227 | +0.61% |
1970 | 12,763 | +2.24% |
1975 | 14,409 | +2.46% |
1980 | 14,801 | +0.54% |
1990 | 18,032 | +1.99% |
1995 | 18,902 | +0.89% |
2000 | 21,081 | +2.37% |
2007 | 22,188 | +0.71% |
2010 | 22,949 | +1.23% |
2015 | 23,712 | +0.62% |
2020 | 25,781 | +1.66% |
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [7] [8] [9] [10] |
In the 2020 census, the population of Pura, Tarlac, was 25,781 people, [3] with a density of 830 inhabitants per square kilometre or 2,100 inhabitants per square mile.
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Municipality of Pura consists of 4 public secondary schools, 1 private secondary school, 15 public primary and elementary schools, and 4 private elementary schools namely:
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