Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao

Not to be confused with the province of Sultan Kudarat.

Sultan Kudarat Nuling
Municipality
Municipality of Sultan Kudarat
Municipal Hall at Brgy. Dalumangcob
Seal
Map of Maguindanao with Sultan Kudarat highlighted
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Sultan Kudarat Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 7°14′N124°15′E / 7.23°N 124.25°E / 7.23; 124.25 Coordinates: 7°14′N124°15′E / 7.23°N 124.25°E / 7.23; 124.25
Country	Philippines
Region	Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Province	Maguindanao
District	1st district
Named for	Sultan Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat
Barangays	39 (see Barangays)
Government   [1]
• Type	Sangguniang Bayan
•  Mayor	Tucao Mastura
•  Vice Mayor	Shameem B. Mastura
•  Representative	Sittie Shahara "Dimple" I. Mastura
•  Municipal Council	Members Saman L. Abdul Abas D. Ahmad Brahim K. Ali Omar K. Bakar Norhana M. Maik Mohammed A. Casim Nasser A. Ali Nor-ain M. Kunakon
•  Electorate	25,928 voters (2019)
Area [2]
• Total	712.91 km2 (275.26 sq mi)
Elevation	34 m (112 ft)
Highest elevation	160 m (520 ft)
Lowest elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population  (2020 census)  [3]
• Total	105,121
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
•  Households	17,437
Economy
•  Income class	1st municipal income class
•  Poverty incidence	58.88% (2018) [4]
•  Revenue	₱342,736,000.00 (2020)
•  Assets	₱359,640,000.00 (2020)
•  Expenditure	₱324,768,000.00 (2020)
•  Liabilities	₱60,156,000.00 (2020)
Service provider
•  Electricity	Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (MAGELCO)
Time zone	UTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code	9605
PSGC	153812000
IDD  :  area code	+63 (0)64
Native languages	Maguindanao Iranun Tagalog
Website	www.sultankudarat-mag.gov.ph

Sultan Kudarat, officially the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat (Maguindanaon: Inged nu Sultan Kudarat; Iranun: Inged a Sultan Kudarat; Tagalog : Bayan ng Sultan Kudarat), is a 1st class municipality and legislative capital of the province of Maguindanao, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 105,121 people.  ^[3]

Formerly known as Nuling, it became the de jure capital of the province in 1977. It currently serves as the legislative capital of Maguindanao since 2011 as it plays host to the Maguindanao Provincial Board, previously housed in the former capitol at Shariff Aguak. This restores its previous status as provincial capital, now shared with Buluan which serves as the executive capital.

History

Sultan Kudarat town was founded as a municipality by the name Nuling on August 18, 1947 by virtue of Executive Order No. 82 signed by President Manuel Roxas. ^[5] The town had its present name after it became the capital of the newly carved province of Maguindanao in 1977.

The town was part of the province of Shariff Kabunsuan from October 2006 until its nullification by the Supreme Court in July 2008.

The original seat of the Sultanate of Maguindanao was located at the mouth of the Maguindanao river (now Matampay) but later transferred to the nearby sitio at the bank of the Nuling Creek of Barangay Salimbao of this Municipality.

Sultan Mastura Kudarat, a royal lineage of the hero soldier Sultan Dipatuan Kudaratullah was appointed by American Governor Carpenter as President of the Municipal District of Nuling. The former, however, tactfully declined said and after and instead, designated his son, Datu Mamadra Mastura for the position, who served from 1922 to 1923. He was succeeded by the following executives:

• 1924 to 1926, Datu Lembak Mastura;
• 1927 to 1934, Datu Baraguir Mamadra;
• 1935 to 1945, Datu Baraguir Mamadra, first elected Municipal district Mayor of Nuling under the Philippine Commonwealth with Barangay Salimbao as the seat of the Government of Nuling;
• 1945 to 1946, Datu Dagadas Taha, appointed by President Sergio Osmeña through the recommendation of former Governor Salipada Pendatun of Cotabato Province;
• 1946, Datu Abas Mastura;
• 1946, Datu Ali Compania;
• 1947 to 1951, Datu Mokamad Mamadra, first elected Mayor of the newly created regular Municipality of Nuling;
• 1951 to 1955, Datu Osmena Mamadra;
• 1956 to July 1977, Hadji Datu Sanggacala Mamadra Baraguir, first elected Municipal Mayor of the newly named Sultan Kudarat Municipality (formerly Nuling).

Almost ten years later, after the creation of the regular Municipality of Nuling on August 18, 1947, then President Carlos P. Garcia, aware on the development of the town, issued Executive Order No. 267 fixing the seat of the Municipal Government of Sultan Kudarat to Barangay Dalumangcob of the town.

• July 1977 to January 30, 1980, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, appointed by the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand E. Marcos.

On the same year, following the assumption of Mayor Mastura, late President Ferdinand E. Marcos, issued Presidential Decree No. 1170, transferring the seat of Government of the Province of Maguindanao from the Municipality of Maganoy to the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat on July 11, 1977;

• January 30, 1980, to June 30, 1998, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, elected on January 30, 1980;
• July 1, 1998, to June 30, 2001, Bai Shajida Mastura-Bandila, first woman elected Municipal Mayor.

In a plebiscite conducted on March 15, 2003, the electorates of this Municipality unanimously voted in favor of the creation of a new Municipality in the name of Sultan Mastura, being a son of Sultan Dipatuan Kudaratullah, better known as Sultan Kudarat. The New Municipality of Sultan Mastura has absorbed 13 barangays from the former leaving on 39 for its mother Municipality.

• July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2004, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, once again elected as Municipal Mayor unopposed;
• July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2007, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, elected again as Municipal Mayor;
• July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2010, Bai Shajida Mastuar-Bandila, again elected as Municipal Mayor of the Municipality of Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan, while his father, former Mayor Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA, run for the position of Governor of the newly created Shariff Kabunsuan Province;
• July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2013, Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA returned as the Municipal Mayor of the municipality with his daughter, former mayor Bai Shajida Biruar Mastura as his Vice Mayor;
• July 1, 2013–present Datu Shameem B. Mastura, grandson of the Datu Tucao O. Mastura, CPA assumed as newly elected mayor of the municipality of Sultan Kuidarat, Maguindanao. He is the youngest mayor at the age of 23 in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). At that time, he was ranked as the third youngest mayor in the Philippine History at the age of 23 with Benigno Aquino Jr. as second at the age of 22 in Tarlac and Jono Humamoy as first at the age of 21 of Inabanga, Bohol in 2007 and perhaps even in the Philippine political history.

Presently, Sultan Kudarat has a total land area of 71,151 hectares (175,820 acres) and an unofficial Population Census Result of 152,667 and a 24,651 households as of August 1, 2007.

Geography

Barangays

Sultan Kudarat is politically subdivided into 39 barangays.

• Alamada
• Banatin
• Banubo
• Bulalo
• Bulibod
• Calsada
• Crossing Simuay
• Dalumangcob (Poblacion)
• Damaniog
• Darapanan
• Gang
• Inawan
• Kabuntalan
• Kakar
• Kapimpilan
• Katamlangan (Matampay)
• Katidtuan
• Katuli
• Ladia
• Limbo
• Maidapa
• Makaguiling
• Matengen
• Mulaug
• Nalinan
• Nara(Sultan Kudarat Mopakc)
• Nekitan
• Olas
• Panatan
• Pigcalagan
• Pigkelegan (Ibotegen)
• Pinaring
• Pingping
• Raguisi
• Rebuken
• Salimbao
• Sambolawan
• Senditan
• Ungap

Climate

Climate data for Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	28 (82)	28 (82)	29 (84)	29 (84)	27 (81)	26 (79)	26 (79)	26 (79)	27 (81)	26 (79)	27 (81)	27 (81)	27 (81)
Average low °C (°F)	19 (66)	19 (66)	19 (66)	20 (68)	21 (70)	20 (68)	20 (68)	20 (68)	20 (68)	20 (68)	20 (68)	19 (66)	20 (68)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	53 (2.1)	44 (1.7)	41 (1.6)	39 (1.5)	69 (2.7)	89 (3.5)	92 (3.6)	97 (3.8)	72 (2.8)	79 (3.1)	72 (2.8)	49 (1.9)	796 (31.1)
Average rainy days	15.3	13.5	16.3	16.9	22.3	23.5	22.5	23.1	19.4	21.5	20.6	17.5	232.4
Source: Meteoblue (modeled/calculated data, not measured locally) [6]

Demographics

Population census of Sultan Kudarat

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1918	6,603	—
1939	15,823	+4.25%
1948	15,127	−0.50%
1960	30,614	+6.05%
1970	40,377	+2.80%
1975	47,101	+3.14%
1980	48,383	+0.54%
1990	72,331	+4.10%
1995	76,125	+0.96%
2000	94,861	+4.83%
2007	121,324	+3.45%
2010	82,758	−13.00%
2015	95,201	+2.70%
2020	105,121	+1.97%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority   [7]   [8]   [9] [10]

Social services

Education and literacy

About 79.2 percent of the municipality's school age population are literate, that is able to read and write, based on the 1995 census. The data likewise shows that 43% are in elementary level and 26% are in high school level. College undergraduate shared with 5.4%, and 2.4% are college graduate.

Health

There is one government hospital in the town, the Cotabato Sanitarium, but it caters only to specific health needs. There are about 26 Barangay Health Centers and 10 health personnel, composed of 1 medical doctor, 1 dental doctor, 6 midwives, 1 nurse and 1 sanitary inspector, serving the 39 barangays of the municipality. The health personnel are being augmented by 8 health workers and 39 trained hilots.

See also

• List of renamed cities and municipalities of the Philippines

References

1.   Municipality of Sultan Kudarat | (DILG)
2. "2015 Census of Population, Report No. 3 – Population, Land Area, and Population Density" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. Quezon City, Philippines. August 2016. ISSN   0117-1453. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 25, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
3. Census of Population (2020). "BARMM". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. PSA . Retrieved 8 July 2021.
4. "PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Philippine Statistics Authority. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
5. Executive Order No. 82, s. 1947 (18 August 1947), Organizing into ten municipalities all, except three, municipal districts in the province of Cotabato and annexing the said three municipal districts to the municipality of Cotabato , retrieved June 19, 2022
6. "Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao : Average Temperatures and Rainfall". Meteoblue. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
7. Census of Population (2015). "ARMM – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. PSA . Retrieved 20 June 2016.
8. Census of Population and Housing (2010). "ARMM – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. NSO . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
9. Censuses of Population (1903–2007). "ARMM – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao". Table 1. Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by Province/Highly Urbanized City: 1903 to 2007. NSO.
10. "Province of Maguindanao". Municipality Population Data. Local Water Utilities Administration Research Division. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
11. "Poverty incidence (PI):". Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
12. https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/NSCB_LocalPovertyPhilippines_0.pdf; publication date: 29 November 2005; publisher: Philippine Statistics Authority.
13. https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2003%20SAE%20of%20poverty%20%28Full%20Report%29_1.pdf; publication date: 23 March 2009; publisher: Philippine Statistics Authority.
14. https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2006%20and%202009%20City%20and%20Municipal%20Level%20Poverty%20Estimates_0_1.pdf; publication date: 3 August 2012; publisher: Philippine Statistics Authority.
15. https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/2012%20Municipal%20and%20City%20Level%20Poverty%20Estima7tes%20Publication%20%281%29.pdf; publication date: 31 May 2016; publisher: Philippine Statistics Authority.
16. https://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/City%20and%20Municipal-level%20Small%20Area%20Poverty%20Estimates_%202009%2C%202012%20and%202015_0.xlsx; publication date: 10 July 2019; publisher: Philippine Statistics Authority.
17. "PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Philippine Statistics Authority. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.

External links

• Sultan Kudarat Profile at the DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information
• Local Governance Performance Management System
• Inquirer.net, Sultan Kudarat town aims for nat’l recognition