Mainit
Sign in to saveMainit, officially the Municipality of Mainit (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Mainit; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 28,019 people.
Key facts
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lake Mainit Surigao del Norte sunset.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Sunset over Lake Mainit
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag_of_Mainit,_Surigao_del_Norte.png
- Settlement.flag_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_seal
- Municipality of Mainit copy.jpg
- Settlement.seal_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Philippines
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- 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
- December 27, 1930
- Settlement.parts_type
- Barangays
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Philippines
- Official name
- Municipality of Mainit
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Surigao del Norte
- Population
- 29205
- Area
- 107.76
- Elevation
- 50
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Alegria
- Official website
- www.mainit.gov.ph
- Image
- Lake Mainit Surigao del Norte sunset.JPG
- Households
- 6492
- Dialing code
- 86
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- postal code
- 8417
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical rainforest climate
- Commons category
- Mainit, Surigao del Norte
- language used
- Tagalog
- different from
- Lake Mainit
- poverty incidence
- 31.26
- electorate
- 21282
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 178165440.12
- total assets
- 542668329.00
- total expenditure
- 143462687.47
- total liabilities
- 68796885.43
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Barangays
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Mainit, officially the Municipality of Mainit (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Mainit; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 28,019 people.
It is situated on the north shore of Lake Mainit in the north-eastern part of Mindanao. The word "mainit" literally means "hot". The other local term for "mainit" is "mapaso." Mainit is home to a hot spring, the Mapaso Wellness Resort frequented by locals and visitors from nearby towns and provinces. It is regarded that Mainit got its name from this hot sulfuric spring.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mainit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.