Matuguinao
Sign in to saveMatuguinao, officially the Municipality of Matuguinao (; ), is a municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 7,708 people, making it the least populated municipality in the province.
Key facts
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lush trees of Matuguinao, Western Samar, Philippines 30 June 2020.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Forest in Matuguinao
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag_of_Matuguinao,_Samar.png
- Settlement.flag_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.seal_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Philippines
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within the
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Philippines
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- June 19, 1965
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- Barangays
- Settlement.parts_style
- para
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Philippines
- Official name
- Municipality of Matuguinao
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Samar
- Population
- 7708
- Area
- 172.51
- Elevation
- 188
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Las Navas
- Image
- The Underworld.jpg
- Households
- 1545
- Dialing code
- 55
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- postal code
- 6708
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical rainforest climate
- language used
- Tagalog
- Commons category
- Matuguinao
- poverty incidence
- 42.56
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 125235031.16
- total assets
- 288572260.03
- total expenditure
- 108233361.15
- total liabilities
- 150420823.86
- electorate
- 6241
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Geography
- Barangays
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- Infrastructure
- References
- External links
Matuguinao, officially the Municipality of Matuguinao (; ), is a municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 7,708 people, making it the least populated municipality in the province.
==Etymology== Matuguinao or Matugnaw is a Waray-Waray word that literally means cold.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matuguinao” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.