Sagada

Also known as Municipality of Sagada, Sagada, Mountain Province

Sagada, officially the Municipality of Sagada (; ; ; ; ; ) is a municipality in Mountain Province, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 10,702 people.

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Settlement.image_skyline: Sagada skyline (Sagada, Mountain Province; 12-01-2022).jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Sagada in 2022
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Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Philippines
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Province
Settlement.other_name: Ganduyan
Settlement.motto: Ipeyas Nan Gawis
Settlement.anthem: Sagada Hymn
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Municipality of Sagada
Population: 10702
Area: 83.32
Elevation: 1472
Official website: sagada.gov.ph
Image: Sagada Mountain Province.jpg
Households: 2798
Dialing code: 74

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postal code: 2619
Commons category: Sagada
poverty incidence: 19.75
electorate: 9030
fiscal/tax revenue: 118362942.80
total expenditure: 85659755.70
total assets: 370693460.59
total liabilities: 188580273.65

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Arrival of Anglican missionaries
Chico River Dam Project
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Sagada, officially the Municipality of Sagada (; ; ; ; ; ) is a municipality in Mountain Province, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 10,702 people.

The town is famous for its hanging coffins. This is a traditional way of burying people that is still utilized. The elderly carve their own coffins out of hollowed logs. If they are too weak or ill, their families prepare their coffins instead. The dead are placed inside their coffins (sometimes breaking their bones in the process of fitting them in), and the coffins are brought to a cave for burial. The Sagada people have been practicing such burials for over 2,000 years, however, not everyone is qualified to be buried this way; among other things, one had to have been married and had grandchildren.