Gigaquit
Sign in to saveGigaquit, officially the Municipality of Gigaquit (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Gigaquit; ), is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 21,856 people.
Key facts
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag_of_Gigaquit,_Surigao_del_Norte.png
- Settlement.flag_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.seal_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Philippines
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within the
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Philippines
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
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- District
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1850
- Settlement.parts_type
- Barangays
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- para
- Settlement.p1
- (see Barangays)
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Philippines
- Official name
- Municipality of Gigaquit
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Surigao del Norte
- Population
- 22949
- Area
- 138.11
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Claver
- Official website
- www.gigaquit.gov.ph
- Households
- 5229
- Dialing code
- 86
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- Köppen climate classification
- tropical rainforest climate
- language used
- Tagalog
- postal code
- 8409
- office held by head of government
- mayor
- poverty incidence
- 34.62
- electorate
- 14842
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 239748641.22
- total assets
- 420785618.92
- total expenditure
- 150002169.60
- total liabilities
- 106833732.25
- Commons category
- Gigaquit
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Barangays
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- References
- External links
Gigaquit, officially the Municipality of Gigaquit (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Gigaquit; ), is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 21,856 people.
The name is derived from the words gigad (meaning "shore") and gakit (meaning "bamboo raft") and refers to the means of transportation that the early settlers used to travel from the inland to the shore.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gigaquit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.