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Cataingan, officially the Municipality of Cataingan, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.

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Felipe L. Cabataña

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Municipality of Cataingan
Located in
Masbate
Population
51165
Area
191.64
Elevation
43
Time zone
UTC+08:00
Shares border with
Pio V. Corpus
Official website
www.cataingan.gov.ph
Households
12036
Dialing code
56
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language used
Masbateño
postal code
5415
Köppen climate classification
tropical rainforest climate
poverty incidence
23.43
fiscal/tax revenue
169307676.27
total assets
627217715.24
total expenditure
214227555.95
total liabilities
187824962.86
electorate
30715
Commons category
Cataingan
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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Barangays
  • Climate
  • Demographics
  • Language
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Primary and elementary schools
  • Secondary schools
  • Notable personalities
  • References
  • External links

Cataingan, officially the Municipality of Cataingan, is a municipality in the province of Masbate, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.

== History == In 1948, Placer, then a barrio of this town, was separated as a town by virtue of Republic Act No. 292, passed June 16, 1948. Three years later, in 1951, the barrios of Limbuhan, Guindawahan, Palho, Casabangan, Salvacion, Alegria, Tanke, Bundukan, Bugtong, and Cabangrayan were separated from Cataingan and created into the town of Limbuhan. Placer, at that time of its creation, included the entire present day Municipality of Esperanza (which was then known as Barrio Esperanza).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cataingan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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