Linapacan Municipality Overview
Linapacan Municipality Overview
MUNICIPAL BACKGROUND
1.1 History
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         uring the 16th century when the Spanish government sent missionaries to spread Christianity in the Philippines,
         Linapacan was one of the places in Paragua or Palawan where missionaries settled. They established a settlement, a
         church and built a fort at Eli Island and sitio caseledan to protect them from the evading moros. It was said that when
 they to the island, they saw footprints along the shore. They traced the footsteps, which eventually led them to a hut. They a
 beautiful woman and in appreciation to her beauty, they named the new place Reyna Capan. For unknown reason, Reyna
 Capan was change to Linapacan.
 Linapacan was formerly a part of Coron. Due to many difficulties in transacting business because of the distance to Coron, and
 thinking of the advantage of becoming a town. Local leaders made representation to Hon. Gaudencio E. Abordo, the
 representative of Palawan to the Congress. He filed a bill which became a law known as Republic Act No. 1020 approved on
 January 12, 1954.
 By virtue of Republic Act No. 1020, Linapacan was created as a new town which composed of ten (10) barangays.
 The late Jose O. Cadlaon was elected as the first mayor of the town. The late Juan L. Abordo succeeded him in 1959; He
 promoted agricultural development and was responsible for the establishment of the first Rural Health Center. The late Mayor
 Genaro H. Cadalaon succeeded Mayor Juan L. Abordo, and made an intensive study of the needs of the municipality and set a
 policy of attractions. His interest to educate the cultural minorities gave him the courage to established Barangay High School at
 Barangay San Miguel (Poblacion), now San Miguel Nationalized High School.
 In 1986 when Mayor Rafael D. Rodriguez, Sr. was appointed mayor after the EDSA revolution, they requested that Linapacan
 be changed to G.E. Abordo in order to give honor to the late Congressman Abordo who was responsible for the creation of the
 Municipality of Linapacan. The bill was one of the first that Congressman David A. Ponce de Leon, 1st District of Palawan filed in
 Congress. Republic Act 6680 was approved on November 4, 1988 changing Linapacan to G.E. Abordo Municipality.
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    On June 12, 1992 there was a change of Administration and the newly elected Legislative Body moved to retain Linapacan as
    the name of the Municipality maintaining that G.E. Abordo was illegal due to failure of holding a plebiscite. On May 21, 1994, a
    plebiscite was made and the majority of the inhabitants favored to retain Linapacan as the name of the municipality.
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    I.2. Location
    The municipality of Linapacan is in the northern part of Palawan and is composed of 52 islands and islets. It is bounded by the
    municipality of Culion in the North and municipality of El Nido in the south, bounded in the east by Sulu Sea and West Philippine
    Sea in the west. It has a total land area of 17,225 hectares, which is 1.04% of Palawan’s total land area. There are ten
    barangays: four in the mainland and the remaining are island barangays. The municipality lies within the geographic
    coordinates of 119º35’ to 120º17’ E Longitude and 11º12’ to 11º40’ N Latitude.
    Linapacan is a limestone island, its soil particularly in the lowland areas have been found to be suitable with rice, root crops and
    tree crops. Areas suitable for upland crops are about 18.82 % and about 8.99% are suited for lowland crops.
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II. SOCIO-ECONOMIC
      PROFILE
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    2.1. Social
      2.1.1. Health and Nutrition
A. Malnutrition
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                               Total No.      Severely    Under-              % of
                                                                  Total
            BARANGAY           of Target     Underweigh   weight             SUW
                                                                 weighed
                                   PS          t (SUW)     (UW)            and UW 
        BARANGONAN                142              0         9     118       7.62%
        CABUNLAWAN                109              4         9      74      17.56%
        CALIBANGBANGA
        N                         177             7        14      145     14.48%
        DECABAITOT                 84             4         5       78     11.53%
        MARUYOGRUYOG              273             4        14      196      9.18%
        NANGALAO                  367             4        11      210      7.14%
        NEW CULAYLAYAN            189             2        12      107     13.08%
        PICAL                     213             8        12      171     11.69%
        SAN MIGUEL                603            12         9      430      4.88%
        SAN NICOLAS               145             0         4       94      4.25%
        TOTAL                    2302            45        99     1623     8.87%
      PHO (2018)
The table below shows the results of infant mortality rate in the
municipality of Linapacan. The leading cause of infant death is
Pneumonia. The rest are shown in table 2.
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                 Leading Causes of Infant Mortality
                                             No
                     Causes                  .     Rate/1000
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    2
    3
    4
    5
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                                                                   PHO (2015)
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               Causes                   No.    Rate/1000          Other disorders of the Urinary
                                        2,22                    7 Syrtem                             142   8.49
1   ARI/URTI                              6          133.16
                                                                8 Migraine and Other headaches       76    4.55
2   Hypertension                         331           19.8
                                                                  Certain early complications of
3   Acute Gastroenteritis                203          12.14
                                                                9 trauma                             64    3.83
4   Rheumatism                           196          11.72
                                                               10 Gastro-esophageal Reflux disease   48    2.87
5   Viral infection                      186          11.13
6   Bronchial Ashtma                     166           9.93    PHO (2015)
2.1.2. Education
A. Literacy Rate
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                       Literacy
    Barangay         Yes       No    Total Pop’n Rate
    BARANGONAN           776      61         837 92.71%
    CABUNLAWAN           637      33         670 95.07%
    CALIBANGBANGAN       925      90        1015 91.13%
    DECABAITOT           446      49         495 90.10%
    MARUYOGRUYOG       1511     102         1613 93.68%
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   NANGALAO                  2034   138        2172   93.65%
   NEW CULAYLAYAN            1040    72        1112   93.53%
   PICAL                     1123   100        1223   91.82%
   SAN MIGUEL                3347   232        3579   93.52%
   SAN NICOLAS                778    60         838   92.84%
   Total                    12617   937       13554    93.09%
                                                                PSA (2015)
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  C. Secondary Education
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               Junior High School
 Grade Level        Male     Female     Total
 Grade 7            196        180       376
 Grade 8            152        164       316
 Grade 9            135        148       283
 Grade 10           108        125       233
 SPED/Non
 Graded
       Total        591       617       1,208
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               Senior High School
     Grade Level     Male Female    Total
     Grade 11         240     264    504
     Grade 12         133     211    344
         Total        373     475    848
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2.1.3. Housing
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     2.2.1 Agriculture and Fisheries
A. Agriculture
2.2.2. Tourism
A. Tourist Spots
  Linapacan is endowed with numerous natural attractions, which are potetials to provide opportunities for income in the tourism
  sector. Below are the list of Premier Tourist Attractions in the municipality of Linapacan:
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Table 10: Tourist Arrival, Linapacan
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                   Tourist Arrival
               Year             2017   2018
            Total Guest        5,644   8,701
     PTO 2018
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     II. INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S
               PROFILE
     I. INTRODUCTION
      
     The indigenous peoples in the Philippines are defined by the   defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership
     Indigenous Peoples‟ Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997 as: “A group     since time immemorial, occupied, possessed and utilized
     of people or homogeneous societies identified by self-         such territories, sharing common bonds of language,
     ascription and ascription by others, who have continually      customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural traits, or
     lived as organized communities on community-bounded and        who have, through resistance to political, social and cultural
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inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions and            disaggregation for indigenous peoples can be gleaned from
cultures, become historically differentiated from the majority   the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues’
of Filipinos.                                                    recommendation that stated this as a “topic of primary
                                                                 importance.” In its first two sessions in 2002 and 2003, the
ICCs/Ips [Indigenous Cultural Communities/indigenous             Permanent Forum identified “data collection as an urgent
peoples] shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as      priority (Tebtebba Foundation, 2006).”
indigenous on account of their descent from populations           
which inhabited the country, at the time of conquest or          There is generally a lack of systematic collection and
colonization, or at the time of inroads of non-indigenous        documentation of disaggregated data on indigenous peoples
religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state    on socio-economic development, education, health, land
boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social,          issues,    large    development      projects,  development
economic, cultural and political institutions, but who may       infrastructure, labor and employment. A comprehensive
have been displaced from their traditional domains or who        organization of information of the indigenous people in the
may have resettled outside the ancestral domains (IPRA,          province to identify who and where the indigenous people
Chapter II, Section 3h).”                                        are is vital to focus targeting of development interventions
                                                                 intended for them and to objectively identify beneficiaries of
There are no accurate figures on the population of               proposed programs and projects.
indigenous peoples because of the lack of any formal
census. Indigenous peoples’ communities are found in the         The Provincial Government leadership identified socio-
forests, mountains, lowlands and coastal areas and are in        economic and geographic profiling of indigenous peoples as
varied levels of socio-economic development. They engage         a work area of primary concern. This is partly because of
in a mix of production systems including swidden farming,        insufficiency or perhaps lack of data on the demographic
settled agriculture, hunting and gathering, livestock raising,   characteristics and conditions of indigenous peoples.
fishing and production and trade in local handicrafts. A         Governor Jose Ch. Alvarez directed the PPDO to generate
common characteristic of indigenous peoples is their close       better data collection and disaggregation concerning
attachment to ancestral land, territory and resources            indigenous people.
(Cariňo, J., 2012).                                               
                                                                 Following the instructions of the Governor, PPDO conducted
On the global level, the importance of data collection and       household and geographic profiling of indigenous people in
                                                                 the municipality of Linapacan.
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     III. METHODOLOGY
      
     This Report involves two types of household data sources:        The survey was designed for one-time purpose. It may be
     administrative and survey data. Existing census data and other   replicated in the future when deemed necessary and upon
     government data are used to compare with data gathered           availability of logistical support. The survey for municipality of
     from the survey. However, data from administrative records       Linapacan was done from August - September, 2018.
     are usually not disaggregated systematically by gender and        
     specific location (barangay and sitio).                          The survey of Indigenous Peoples in Linapacan was conducted
                                                                      in 10 barangays, namely: Barangonan, Cabunlawan,
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Calibangbangan, Decabaitot, Maruyogruyog, Nangalao, New           
Culaylayan, Pical, San Miguel and San Nicolas.                   The Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator
                                                                 as Project In-Charge supervised the overall field operations.
This survey used a one-page questionnaire which was divided      Researchers from PPDO did most of the coordination and
into three (3) sections, namely: a. General Household            fieldwork, serving mainly as lead enumerators and field
Information; b. Ethnicity; c. General Socio-Economic Services.   coordinators. Field editing/evaluation of the questionnaires
                                                                 were done by the PPDO Researchers while the PPDC as project
Interviews were used to get information from the respondents.    in-charge undertook the editing and evaluation of the survey
Geographic profiling utilized the geo-tagging system using       returns.
android tablets.
                                                                 The services of barangay enumerators were also engaged. A
PPDO informed the municipal mayor and the barangay officials     team of 5 to 6 residents per barangay were trained in filling up
and requested permission to concerned households before the      the questionnaires and geotagging.
conduct of the survey. Each household was visited and
interpersonal interviews and responses on the questionnaire      The result of the survey was encoded in spreadsheet
were noted and recorded. The survey was conducted from           applications and SPSS software for statistical analysis and
9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.                                           ArcMap GIS software for geographic profiling.
 
                    SURVEY
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     RESULTS AND
     FINDINGS
      
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    There were a total 13,759 respondents in 3,035 surveyed households in Municipality of Linapacan in this
survey.Table 1 shows the distribution of the respondents by barangay.
                        2018
      Barangay         Households        Population          HH%
1.Barangonan              221                967                 7.28
2.Cabunlawan              152                732                 5.01
3.Calibangbangan          247               1,096                8.14
4.Decabaitot              143                704                 4.71
5.Maruyogruyog            328               1,449              10.81
6.Nangalao                378               1,775              12.45
7.New Culaylayan          284               1,281                9.36
8.Pical                   319               1,445              10.51
9.San Miguel              741               3,321              24.42
10.San Nicolas            222                989                 7.31
TOTAL                    3,035             13,759           100.00%
                                                                                            Source: PPDO Survey of IPs,
                                           B. Age Distribution
                                                 Majority of the surveyed population in the municipality falls
                                                   under the age range of 0 to 14 years old.
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     working age) 4,663 or 33.89 percent, 55-64 years (mature working age) 611 or 4.44 percent, 65 years and over
     (elderly) 432 or 3.14 percent. Refer to Table 2.
     The age structure of a population affects a community's key socio economic issues. Communities with young
     populations (high percentage under age 15) need to invest more in schools, while communities with older populations
     (high percentage ages 65 and over) need to invest more in the health sector. The age structure can also be used to
     help predict potential political issues. For example,the rapid growth of a young adult population unable to find
     employment can lead to unrest.
                                              AGE DISTRIBUTION
           Age Group                    Age Range           Population           Population (%)
           Children                          0-14              5,140                   37.36
           Early Working Age                15-24              2,913                   21.17
           Prime Working Age                25-54              4,663                   33.89
           Mature Working Age               55-64               611                     4.44
           Elderly                           65+                432                     3.14
           Total                                              13,759                  100.00
           Total Working Force                                 8,187                   59.50 
                      Source: PPDO Survey of IPs, 2018
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       C. Sex Distribution
       Gender-wise, the respondents in the municipality are composed of 7,349 males representing 53.41 percent
       of the population and 6,410 females representing the remaining 46.59percent. Refer to Table 3.
                                                            SEX
                                                                                 Total
                            Barangay                Male           Female
                      1.Barangonan                   515             452          967
                      2.Cabunlawan                   385             347          732
                      3.Calibangbangan               579             517         1,096
                      4.Decabaitot                   358             346          704
                      5.Maruyogruyog                 736             713         1,449
                      6.Nangalao                     959             816         1,775
                      7.New Culaylayan               683             598         1,281
                      8.Pical                        758             687         1,445
                      9.San Miguel                  1,848           1,473        3,321
                      10.San Nicolas                 528             461          989
                              Total                 7,349           6,410       13,759
     As to educational attainment, Table 4 shows that 7,045                                       respondents (51.2 percent) consider
     themselves as elementary undergraduates, including                                           those in daycare and kindergarten /
     preparatory school, while 2,243 respondents (16.30                                           percent) consider themselves as elementary
     graduates. High school undergraduates and graduates                                          are numbered at 2,605 and 857, placed at
     18.93 and 6.23 percent, respectively. College graduates                                      total to 362 respondents (2.63percent)
     while college undergraduates and those who have                                              availed of vocational/technical training
     posted 3.77 percent with a total of 519 respondents.                                         See Table 4.
E. Marital Status
                                                Less       than half of the population of marriageable age (10 y/o and above) are
                                                 married.
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                          More than half of the respondents are single (56.54 percent). Married respondents take up the
                          next big proportion (39.39 percent), corresponding to more than half of the population (74.87
                          percent) of marriageable age, or those aged 10 years old and above. Live-in respondents follow
                          at
                           14.48 percent. Least are widower and seperated respondents with 1.05 and 0.55 percent
                          respectively. See Table 5
A. Household Composition
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                 The average household size among the surveyed households is five (5) members, with an average of three males and
                 two females per household. Almost two-thirds of the individual population of the surveyed households belong to the
                 combined sector of Children and Women.
                    There are 709 individual senior citizens in the surveyed households. Gender-wise, male senior citizens are greater in number
                    at 54.02 percent and female senior citizens only constitutes 45.98 percent of the total senior citizen population, See Table 7.
                    In terms of age, 46.26percent belong to the 60 – 65 years old age group, 36.95 percent are within 66 – 75 years old, and
                    12.83 percent are within 76-85 years old, and only 3.95percent are aged 86 years and above.
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        Table 7: Senior Citizen Population by Barangay and by Sex
                                                                                                                        Table         8:
                                            Person With Disabilities                                                    Population    of
                       Barangay                    Male                Female              Total                        Persons     with
            1.Barangonan                             3                     0                 3                          Disability   by
            2.Cabunlawan                             15                    7                22                          Barangay and by
            3.Calibangbangan                         0                     0                 -                          Sex
            4.Decabaitot                             10                    6                16
            5.Maruyogruyog                           11                    2                13
            6.Nangalao                               17                   11                28
            7.New Culaylayan                         16                    4                20
            8.Pical                                  15                    4                19
            9.San Miguel                             45                   11                56
            10.San Nicolas                           8                     0                 8                                             29
        The primary source of income of the surveyed households is crop fishing (54.48 percent) followed by farming
        (22.10 percent), while 23.42 percent are engaged in other economic services.
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              Table 9: Population Distribution by Major Economic Occupation and by Barangay
                                                       Livestock
             Barangay           Farmer        Hunter   & Poultry   Fisherfolk   Laborer   Gov't.     Others   Total
                                                       Raiser                             Employee
      1.Barangonan                   30         0           4         167          13         0         0        214
      2.Cabunlawan                    2         0          24         114          23         0         2        165
      3.Calibangbangan              202         0          38          66           6         1         0        313
      4.Decabaitot                   41         0           7          86          12         0         0        146
      5.Maruyogruyog                268         0           5          34          24         0         2        333
      6.Nangalao                     20         0           9         233          38         0         2        302
      7.New Culaylayan               16         1          16         162         103         1        17        316
      8.Pical                        31         0          11         273          37         2         9        363
      9.San Miguel                   47         1          41         422         180         1        32        724
      10.San Nicolas                 31         1          11         139          23         0        32        237
                Total               688         3         166        1,696        459         5        96       3,113
           Source: PPDO Survey of IPs, 2018
E. Housing Features
  About 35.12 percent of the households surveyed have roof and walls that are totally
  made of light materials (cogon, nipa or bamboo). Around 13.05 percent are built
  with mixed but mostly strong materials and 33.71 percent are mixed with mostly
  light materials. Based on these data, 74.60 percent of the surveyed households are
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         considered vulnerable to natural/man-made disasters as they used light construction materials and/or makeshift
         materials on the roofs and outer walls of their housing units. See Table 10.
            Majority (59.41 percent) of the households in the barangay source their water from shared faucet,
            while about 29.09 percent utilizes dug well and about 7.18 percent get it from their own faucets.
            In terms of toilet facilities, 57.00 percent of the surveyed households have access to
            sanitary toilets, while 3.23 percent use public toilet facility while 39.77 percent have no
            access to sanitary toilet.
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           Electricity
           Most of the households have solar home systems (54.27 percent). 5.77 percent of the
           households are reported using generators while only 14.40 percent is covered by the Palawan
           Electric Cooperative, and households with other sources of electricity not specified constitutes
           25.57 percent.
B. Health Insurance
C. Social Pension
           About 35.54 percent of the 709 identified senior citizens in the municipality
           receives social pension.
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             Palawan Rescue 165 Program.
             A total of 16 households in the municipality availed scholarships for tertiary education through the Tuition
             Assistance for Students program of the Provincial Government of Palawan.
G. GAMOT Project
188 households in the municipality availed the GAMOT Project of the Provincial Government of Palawan.
I. PAG-ASA Program
There are 2 households in the municipality were provided burial assistance by the PAG-ASA Program.
             21 students in the municipality were provided a source of income by the Special Program
             for Employment of Students (SPES).
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L. Cash for Work/Food for Work
  69 household benefited from the Cash for Work/Food for Work Program of the Department
  of Social Welfare and Development.
M. Medical Assistance
  3 households with members who had been sick in the past year were provided with medical
  assistance by the PGP
There are 3 household accessed the Blood Donor’s Assistance Program of the PGP.
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         4.2 Geographic Distribution
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                                                                             Ethnicity   Pop'n     %
                                                                         Palaw'an            439     3.19
                                                                         Tagbanua          2,756    20.03
4.2.1. Ethnolinguistic Distribution                                      Batak                 1     0.01
                                                                         Maranao               8     0.06
    Respondents are dominantly Cuyunon
                                                                         Tau’t-Bato            2     0.01
                                                                         Tausug                3     0.02
      Majority of the surveyed respondents are Cuyunon with 7,240
      (52.62 percent), followed by Tagbanua with 2,756 (20.03 percent)   Badjao                1     0.01
      and Cebuano with 1,135 (8.25 percent)                              Cuyuno            7,240    52.62
                                                                         Cagayanen            34     0.25
      Source: PPDO Survey of IPs, 2018                                   Agutaynen           603     4.38
                                                                         Ilocano             935     6.80
                                                                         Cebuano           1,135     8.25
                                                                         Mapon                 1     0.01
                                                                         Ilonggo              69     0.50
 Map 1: Ethnolinguistic Distribution,                                    Bicolano             20     0.15
        Municipality of Linapacan
                                                                         Masbateño             2     0.01
                                                                         Tagalog             115     0.84
                                                                         Others              395     2.87
                                                                          TOTAL           13,759   100.00
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Map 2: Base Map
Municipality of Linapacan
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     Map 3: Elevation Map
     Municipality of Linapacan
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Map 4: Bgy. Barangonan
Municipality of Linapacan
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          Map 5: Bgy. Cabunlawan
          Municipality
     Map 6:            of Linapacan
            Bgy. Calibangbangan
     Municipality of Linapacan
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     Map 7: Bgy. Decabaitot
     Municipality of Linapacan
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Map 8: Bgy. Maroyogroyog
Municipality of Linapacan
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     Map 9: Bgy. Nangalao
     Municipality of Linapacan
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Map 10: Bgy. New Culaylayan
Municipality of Linapacan
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     Map 11: Bgy. Pical
     Municipality of Linapacan
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Map 12: Bgy. San Miguel
Municipality of Linapacan
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     Map 13: Bgy. San Nicolas
     Municipality of Linapacan
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      Majority of the surveyed households in municipality of Linapacan are situated in an elevation range of 00-20
      meters with 2,895 households and 13,159 population. 330 households are situated in an elevation range of 20-40
      with 330 population. 21 households are situated in an elevation range of 40-60 meters with 102 population. The
      rest are shown below. See Table 12.
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