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Marihatag
Municipality in Surigao del Sur, Philippines From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marihatag, officially the Municipality of Marihatag (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Marihatag; Tagalog: Bayan ng Marihatag); (Indonesian: Kotamadya Marihatag) , is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 19,441 people.[5]
It was known as Oteiza until 1955.[6]
The municipality hosts the "Balik-Marihatag" Festival which literally means going back home to Marihatag.
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Etymology
Its name is a concatenation of Maria Ihatag.
Geography
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Barangays
Marihatag is politically subdivided into 12 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios.
- Alegria
- Amontay
- Antipolo
- Arorogan
- Bayan (formerly Hinogbakan)
- Mahaba
- Mararag
- Poblacion
- San Antonio
- San Isidro
- San Pedro
- Sta Cruz
Climate
Marihatag has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round and with extremely heavy rainfall in January.
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Demographics
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Poverty incidence of Marihatag
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61.87 2003
59.68 2006
48.30 2009
50.28 2012
38.03 2015
45.64 2018
37.82 2021
37.25 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] |
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