Key facts
- Country
- Philippines
- Region
- Caraga
- Founded
- 17 June 1967
- Capital
- Prosperidad
- Largest city
- Bayugan
- Governor
- Santiago B. Cane Jr. ( NUP )
- Vice governor
- Patricia Anne B. Plaza ( NUP )
- Legislature
- Agusan del Sur Provincial Board
- Total
- 9,989.52 km (3,856.98 sq mi)
- Rank
- 4th out of 82
- Highest elevation mount datu masuyapa
- 1,678 m (5,505 ft)
- Density
- 74.1308/km (191.998/sq mi)
- Demonym
- South Agusanon
- Component cities
- 1 Bayugan
- Municipalities
- 13 Bunawan Esperanza La Paz Loreto Prosperidad Rosario San Francisco San Luis Santa Josefa Sibagat Talacogon Trento Veruela
- Districts
- Legislative districts of Agusan del Sur
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( PHT )
- Idd area code
- +63 (0)85
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of the Philippines
- Official name
- Lalawigan ng Agusan del Sur
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Caraga
- Contains
- Veruela
- Capital
- Prosperidad
- Population
- 740531
- Area
- 9989.52
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Misamis Oriental
- Official website
- agusandelsur.gov.ph
- Households
- 173962
- Dialing code
- 85
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- Commons category
- Agusan del Sur
- topic's main category
- Category:Agusan del Sur
- inception
- 1967-06-17
- postal code
- 8500–8513
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical rainforest climate
- electorate
- 446642
- poverty incidence
- 33.40
- replaces
- Agusan
- total assets
- 12402403325.33
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 3677304069.57
- total liabilities
- 1043106771.06
- total expenditure
- 2206781844.55
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
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Encyclopedic overview
Agusan del Sur, officially the Province of Agusan del Sur (Cebuano: Habagatang Agusan; Butuanon: Probinsya hong Agusan del Sur; Filipino: Lalawigan ng Agusan del Sur), is a landlocked province in Caraga region, Mindanao, Philippines. Its capital is the municipality of Prosperidad. It is bordered on the northwest by Agusan del Norte and Misamis Oriental; east by Surigao del Sur; southeast by Davao Oriental; mid-south by Davao de Oro; southwest by Davao del Norte and, mid-west by Bukidnon. It is the fourth largest province in the country in terms of area, with the size of 3,856 sq miles.
Agusan del Sur is the largest and the only landlocked province in the CARAGA region. Bayugan is the only city and it is also the most populated local government unit in the province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agusan del Sur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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