Sinait

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Sinait
Municipality of Sinait
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Nickname: 
Garlic Center of the North
Motto: 
Singising Sinait
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Sinait
Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 17°52′00″N120°27′30″E / 17.8667°N 120.4583°E / 17.8667; 120.4583
Country Philippines
Region Ilocos Region
Province Ilocos Sur
District 1st district
Barangays 44 (see Barangays)
Government
[1]
  Type Sangguniang Bayan
   Mayor Glenn B. Guzman
   Vice Mayor Shee-an C. Guzman
   Representative Ronald Singson
   Municipal Council
Members
   Electorate 18,752 voters (2022)
Area
[2]
  Total
65.56 km2 (25.31 sq mi)
Elevation
21 m (69 ft)
Highest elevation
223 m (732 ft)
Lowest elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Population
 (2020 census) [3]
  Total
25,998
  Density400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
   Households
6,897
Economy
   Income class 3rd municipal income class
   Poverty incidence
18.28
% (2021) [4]
   Revenue 139.2 million (2020), 88.6 million (2012), 91.95 million (2013), 68.19 million (2014), 171.2 million (2015), 309.5 million (2016), 102.5 million (2017), 529 million (2018), 371.8 million (2019), 1,068 million (2021), 878.3 million (2022)
   Assets 1,319 million (2020), 245.7 million (2012), 269.6 million (2013), 271.7 million (2014), 377.6 million (2015), 625.5 million (2016), 685.9 million (2017), 1,108 million (2018), 1,326 million (2019), 2,238 million (2021), 2,291 million (2022)
   Expenditure 155.5 million (2020), 48.17 million (2012), 56.15 million (2013), 54.49 million (2014), 69.87 million (2015), 82.09 million (2016), 83.31 million (2017), 107.1 million (2018), 131.9 million (2019), 147.3 million (2021), 251.4 million (2022)
   Liabilities 88.49 million (2020), 23.44 million (2012), 30.69 million (2013), 40.44 million (2014), 59.28 million (2015), 79.85 million (2016), 117.1 million (2017), 99.29 million (2018), 79.43 million (2019), 87.93 million (2021), 141.2 million (2022)
Service provider
  ElectricityIlocos Sur Electric Cooperative (ISECO)
Time zone UTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code
2733
PSGC
IDD : area code +63(0)77
Native languages Ilocano
Tagalog

Sinait, officially the Municipality of Sinait (Ilocano : Ili ti Sinait; Filipino : Bayan ng Sinait), is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,998 people. [3]

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History

The Chapel of the Santo Cristo Milagroso in Dadalaquiten Norte (the white building), taken from the Chapel of the La Virgen Milagrosa in nearby Paguetpet, Badoc. The body of water in the picture is part of the seashore where the two images were allegedly found floating in a box. Chapel of Santo Cristo Milagroso in Dadalaquiten Norte, Sinait, Ilocos Sur.jpg
The Chapel of the Santo Cristo Milagroso in Dadalaquiten Norte (the white building), taken from the Chapel of the La Virgen Milagrosa in nearby Paguetpet, Badoc. The body of water in the picture is part of the seashore where the two images were allegedly found floating in a box.

Before Magellan discovered the Philippines in 1521, the locality was only a small village of little over a hundred natives who were called "Tirongs." By nature, these primitive inhabitants were sea-faring warlike. In their fast and picturesque sailboats, they traveled to adjoining and distant places, most particularly to settlements and villages along the Ilocos Coast in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan and even Zambales. In those adventures, the “Tirongs “ always challenged the people encountered to tribal wars and fought small battles against them. Often, those sturdy and brave natives came out victorious. Even in their daily chores, those people showed their ferocious characteristics. When the renowned Iberians came, Juan de Salcedo was sent to explore and colonized the Ilocos territory during the early years of the Spanish regime, he found the “Tirongs” of Sinait in apogee of the social state. Small battles were daily occurrence so that in the year 1535, when the locality was organized and established as a “Pueblo.” Salcedo named the new community as “SIN-NAIT”, a word in the local tongue which means “CONTEST”. As a pueblo, Sinait embraced and included in its territorial limit such as distant places as "Rancheria de Paur," now the Municipality of Nueva Era in Ilocos Norte and Southern barrios of Badoc of the same Province. The vast territory, however, was reduced to present 78 square kilometers. In the year 1575, the natives fully realized the hardships of pronouncing the term “Sin-nait” and to go away with the trouble, Salcedo declared that one of the letter “N” be dropped. Since then, this Municipality has been called “Sinait”. Nevertheless, it was only in 1913 when the same was “deeded” by the government upon the initiative of the late Don Calixto Cabacungan so that the Municipality Council enacted a resolution to that effect, that Sinait was adopted as official name of the community to which said resolution was duly approved by the Provincial board of Ilocos Sur and by the Defunct Philippine Legislature.

The Santo Cristo Milagroso

Sinait houses the Sanctuary of the Miraculous Statue of the Black Nazarene (El Santo Cristo Milagroso), fondly called by its residents as "Apo Lakay," and a treasure of Ilocandia. History traces the life-sized statue to Nagasaki, Japan. It was probably sent floating in the sea by missionaries operating in secret in Japan (for fear of persecution during the Tokugawa Bakufu). The box was found by local fishermen in the shores of Barangay Dadalaquiten Norte, on the boundary between Sinait and nearby Paguetpet (La Virgen Milagrosa), Badoc, in the year 1620, and fishermen from both towns carried it ashore. They found two statues inside the box—a statue of the Black Nazarene, and a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to legend, The fishermen from Sinait mysteriously were unable to move the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but had no problems moving the Statue of the Black Nazarene. The fishermen from Badoc, however, were able to move the Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (later called the La Virgen Milagrosa) with ease, as they were unable to carry the image of the Black Nazarene. They took the statues to their respective towns and were venerated. In 1656, with a spreading devotion to the Santo Cristo Milagroso due to its miraculous powers, the Black Crucifix was taken to the capital town of Vigan, since an epidemic was raging there and through the devotion of the faithful, many got cured. Because of this, it is considered as an intercessor of all kinds of affliction and sickness. In 1660, because of the growing veneration to the image, the faithful begun the construction of a permanent edifice to house it. It took the people of Sinait eight years to construct the church with funds provides by the Spanish Audiencia. Today the landing site of Apo Lakay is marked by a chapel at Lugo Beach in Barangay Dadalaquiten Norte, and is a place of pilgrimage for devotees, as with the nearby chapel marking La Virgen Milagrosa's landing site.

Geography

It is the northernmost municipality of the province and is 36 kilometres (22 mi) from the provincial capital, Vigan, 46 kilometres (29 mi) from Laoag, and 441 kilometres (274 mi) from Manila. The municipality is bordered by the province of Ilocos Norte by Badoc and Nueva Era to the north, and Cabugao to the south.

Barangays

Sinait is politically subdivided into 44 barangays. [5] Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.

  • Aguing
  • Baliw
  • Ballaigui (Poblacion)
  • Baracbac
  • Barikir
  • Battog
  • Binacud
  • Cabangtalan
  • Cabarambanan
  • Cabulalaan
  • Cadanglaan
  • Calanutian
  • Calingayan
  • Curtin
  • Dadalaquiten Norte
  • Dadalaquiten Sur
  • Dean Leopoldo Yabes (Pug-os)
  • Duyayyat
  • Jordan
  • Katipunan
  • Macabiag (Poblacion)
  • Magsaysay
  • Marnay
  • Masadag
  • Nagbalioartian
  • Nagcullooban
  • Nagongburan
  • Namnama (Poblacion)
  • Pacis
  • Paratong
  • Purag
  • Quibit-quibit
  • Quimmallogong
  • Rang-ay (Poblacion)
  • Ricudo
  • Sabañgan (Marcos)
  • Sallacapo
  • Santa Cruz
  • Sapriana
  • Tapao
  • Teppeng
  • Tubigay
  • Ubbog
  • Zapat

Climate

Climate data for Sinait, Ilocos Sur
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)30
(86)
31
(88)
33
(91)
34
(93)
33
(91)
31
(88)
30
(86)
30
(86)
30
(86)
31
(88)
30
(86)
29
(84)
31
(88)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)19
(66)
19
(66)
21
(70)
23
(73)
24
(75)
25
(77)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
22
(72)
21
(70)
19
(66)
22
(72)
Average precipitation mm (inches)9
(0.4)
11
(0.4)
13
(0.5)
23
(0.9)
92
(3.6)
122
(4.8)
153
(6.0)
137
(5.4)
139
(5.5)
141
(5.6)
42
(1.7)
14
(0.6)
896
(35.4)
Average rainy days4.64.06.29.119.523.224.022.521.515.210.56.0166.3
Source: Meteoblue (modeled/calculated data, not measured locally) [6]

Demographics

Population census of Sinait
YearPop.±% p.a.
1903 9,157    
1918 12,335+2.01%
1939 11,722−0.24%
1948 12,015+0.27%
1960 15,170+1.96%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1970 16,429+0.80%
1975 17,952+1.79%
1980 19,050+1.19%
1990 21,779+1.35%
1995 22,608+0.70%
YearPop.±% p.a.
2000 24,070+1.35%
2007 24,896+0.47%
2010 25,427+0.77%
2015 25,640+0.16%
2020 25,998+0.27%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [7] [8] [9] [10]

In the 2020 census, Sinait had a population of 25,998. [3] The population density was 400 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,000/sq mi).

Economy

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Public Market

Poverty incidence of Sinait

5
10
15
20
2006
16.70
2009
18.68
2012
20.00
2015
12.24
2018
5.64
2021
18.28

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

As major producer of Garlic, Sinait is also known as the Garlic Center of the North.

Tourism

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The Basilica of Saint Nicholas de Tolentino of Sinait.

Government

Local government

Sinait, belonging to the first congressional district of the province of Ilocos Sur, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the councilors are elected directly by the people through an election which is being held every three years.

Elected officials

Members of the Municipal Council
(2022–2025) [25]
PositionName
CongressmanRonald V. Singson
MayorGlenn B. Guzman
Vice-MayorShee-an C. Guzman
CouncilorsRomel P. Dayoan
Marlowrie I. Remolacio
Marlon B. Ines
King Dave V. Guzman
Jojo Q. Yoro
Wilhelmina R. Ibanez
Jaco Rafael C. Agdeppa
Leopoldo Florentino D. Rosete

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