San Mariano, Isabela

San Mariano, officially the Municipality of San Mariano (Ilocano: Ili ti San Mariano; Tagalog: Bayan ng San Mariano), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 55,370 people. [3]

San Mariano
Municipality
Municipality of San Mariano
Aerial view of San Mariano, with Benito Soliven in the foreground
Seal
Nickname(s): 
Rice Bowl of Isabela
Map of Isabela with San Mariano highlighted
OpenStreetMap
San Mariano
Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 16°59′N 122°01′E
Country Philippines
RegionCagayan Valley (Region II)
ProvinceIsabela
District2nd District
Founded1954
Barangays36 (see Barangays)
Government
 [1]
 • TypeSangguniang Bayan
 • MayorEdgar T. Go
 • Vice MayorDean Anthony G. Domalanta
 • RepresentativeEd Christopher S. Go
 • Electorate32,280 voters (2019)
Area
 [2]
 • Total1,469.50 km2 (567.38 sq mi)
Elevation
102 m (335 ft)
Population
 (2015 census) [3]
 • Total55,370
 • Density38/km2 (98/sq mi)
 • Households
11,849
Economy
 • Income class1st municipal income class
 • Poverty incidence25.34% (2015)[4]
 • Revenue₱286,294,131.65 (2016)
Time zoneUTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code
3332
PSGC
023131000
IDD : area code +63 (0)78
Climate typetropical rainforest climate
Native languagesIlocano
Paranan
Tagalog
Websitewww.sanmariano-isabela.org

It is also a suburb of neighboring Ilagan, the provincial capital.

San Mariano has a total land area of 146,950 hectares (363,100 acres). [2] It constitutes 13.78 percent of the total land area of the province, and is the province's largest and the country's third largest municipality.

The municipality lies in the eastern part of the province of Isabela. It is bounded on the north by the Ilagan, on the east by Palanan, on the south by San Guillermo and on the west by Benito Soliven. It is approximately 404 kilometres (251 mi) from Metro Manila and 46 kilometres (29 mi) from Ilagan, the provincial capital.

Today, San Mariano is continuously being developed, road constructions and other infrastructure project is already being implemented.

Barangays

San Mariano is politically subdivided into 36 barangays. [2]

PSGC Barangay Population ±% p.a.
2015 [3] 2010 [5]
023131001 Alibadabad 3.6% 2,001 1,764 ▴ 2.43%
023131002 Binatug 3.6% 2,003 1,822 ▴ 1.82%
023131003 Bitabian 3.5% 1,948 1,846 ▴ 1.03%
023131004 Buyasan 1.3% 722 781 ▾ −1.48%
023131005 Cadsalan 2.7% 1,486 1,254 ▴ 3.28%
023131006 Casala 2.7% 1,507 1,199 ▴ 4.45%
023131007 Cataguing 3.3% 1,810 1,705 ▴ 1.14%
023131008 Daragutan East 2.4% 1,326 1,148 ▴ 2.78%
023131009 Daragutan West 3.1% 1,740 1,575 ▴ 1.92%
023131010 Del Pilar 2.9% 1,623 1,249 ▴ 5.11%
023131011 Dibuluan 2.7% 1,505 1,449 ▴ 0.72%
023131012 Dicamay 3.5% 1,918 1,524 ▴ 4.48%
023131013 Dipusu 1.4% 764 911 ▾ −3.30%
023131014 Disulap 4.4% 2,412 2,420 ▾ −0.06%
023131015 Disusuan 1.0% 580 544 ▴ 1.23%
023131016 Gangalan 3.0% 1,649 1,537 ▴ 1.35%
023131017 Ibujan 1.5% 814 817 ▾ −0.07%
023131018 Libertad 2.0% 1,122 1,036 ▴ 1.53%
023131019 Macayucayu 1.4% 748 1,260 ▾ −9.45%
023131020 Mallabo 1.5% 838 721 ▴ 2.90%
023131021 Marannao 1.8% 1,012 970 ▴ 0.81%
023131022 Minanga 7.4% 4,114 3,280 ▴ 4.41%
023131023 Old San Mariano 3.9% 2,164 1,935 ▴ 2.15%
023131024 Palutan 1.8% 1,011 968 ▴ 0.83%
023131025 Panninan 1.2% 682 597 ▴ 2.57%
023131026 Zone I (Poblacion) 2.9% 1,584 1,566 ▴ 0.22%
023131027 Zone II (Poblacion) 4.2% 2,345 2,133 ▴ 1.82%
023131028 Zone III (Poblacion) 6.1% 3,394 3,433 ▾ −0.22%
023131029 San Jose 4.2% 2,331 2,235 ▴ 0.80%
023131030 San Pablo 1.5% 856 823 ▴ 0.75%
023131031 San Pedro 1.0% 527 555 ▾ −0.98%
023131032 Santa Filomena 4.1% 2,271 2,210 ▴ 0.52%
023131033 Tappa 1.7% 944 861 ▴ 1.77%
023131034 Ueg 3.5% 1,944 1,774 ▴ 1.76%
023131035 Zamora 0.8% 417 397 ▴ 0.94%
023131036 Balagan 2.3% 1,258 1,139 ▴ 1.91%
023131037 Maria Junessa Corro 2.2% 1,234 4,567 ▾ −22.05%
Total 55,370 51,438 ▴ 1.41%

Existing general and urban land uses

Of the total land area of the municipality, built-up area constitutes 1,268 hectares or 0.86 percent with the Poblacion as the largest and most densely populated built-up area. Open grasslands occupy a total area of approximately 20,700 hectares representing about 14.09 percent. Generally, the open grasslands are flanked by either agricultural areas or forest areas. Vast forest areas of the municipality are mostly found at its eastern portion, which covers about 53.39 percent or an approximated area of 78,450.50 hectares. About 29,264 hectares or 19.91 percent are presently devoted to extensive agricultural activities with corn, rice and bananas as the major crops. Water bodies, including banks, buffer or salvage zones occupy an estimated 11.58 percent while existing roads and streets cover 2.17 percent of the municipality’s total area.

History

Legend has it that San Mariano was once a barrio of Ilagan, the capital city of the province of Isabela. It was first named as Angela in reference to Mariano Kalingog whose family was one of the foremost settlers of the place. Angela was drowned while she was washing clothes along the Pinacanauan River. The incident brought grief to the people and her husband Mariano who also died some years later. Since then, this village teeming with fish and lush trees was known as San Mariano.

In 1920, by virtue of Executive Order 25, San Mariano became a Municipal District and with the passage of Philippines Legislature Act No. 3416 dated December 7, 1927, it was made a distinct and regular municipality.

After some years, there was an influx of migrants coming from the provinces of Ilocos, Cagayan and Pangasinan. These new settlers formed communities in tracks of agricultural lands on which they grew corn and other crops such as rice, root crops, different kinds of vegetables and bananas.

Cultural history

Records also show that when a German naturalist named Carl Semper hiked the Sierra Madre mountains in May 1860, he observed early inhabitants who are known today as the Kalingas. He described the said group as a typical Filipino “cultural minority” who grew their own food, practiced their own religious rites, smithed their own tools, decorated their own artifacts with distinctive designs and traded forest products for metal and salt.

On the pacific side of the mountains, Semper saw the “Negritos” and concluded that they were new arrivals because he observed no “Kalinga-Negrito” mestizos among them. They inhabited the forest close to the “Kalinga” settlements and showed up with games in seasonal periods to barter for agricultural products. Years later, some sociologists noted that there were inter-marriages entered into between these tribes.

These natives, however, were out-numbered by the mestizos or the “Ibanag-Kalinga,” the pure Ibanags and Ilocanos with a ratio of about four to one. These settlers tilled permanent farms at a place which is now known as Barangays Disulap and Minanga.

There was also an influx of several groups from the Bicol and Tagalog regions during the logging concession boom. The continuing acculturation of these groups brought about social changes in the locality. The once verdant forest slowly became barren and denuded with the ceaseless illegal logging and kaingin system employed by the local people and new migrants. When the national government decided to impose a total log ban, the ethnic groups decided to settle in the remote areas of the municipality to farm their lands. The Bicolanos and Tagalogs, on the other hand, went back to their own regions.

Demographics
Population census of San Mariano
YearPop.±% p.a.
1918 1,486—    
1939 7,046+7.69%
1948 8,365+1.92%
1960 15,064+5.02%
1970 20,227+2.99%
1975 25,157+4.47%
1980 31,839+4.82%
1990 36,295+1.32%
1995 37,861+0.79%
2000 41,309+1.89%
2007 44,718+1.10%
2010 51,438+5.23%
2015 55,370+1.41%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [3] [5] [6][7]

In the 2015 census, the population of San Mariano, Isabela, was 55,370 people, [3] with a density of 38 inhabitants per square kilometre or 98 inhabitants per square mile.

Climate
Climate data for San Mariano, Isabela
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 29
(84)		 30
(86)		 32
(90)		 35
(95)		 35
(95)		 35
(95)		 34
(93)		 33
(91)		 32
(90)		 31
(88)		 30
(86)		 28
(82)		 32
(90)
Average low °C (°F) 19
(66)		 20
(68)		 21
(70)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 24
(75)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 22
(72)		 21
(70)		 20
(68)		 22
(71)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 31.2
(1.23)		 23
(0.9)		 27.7
(1.09)		 28.1
(1.11)		 113.5
(4.47)		 141.4
(5.57)		 176.4
(6.94)		 236.6
(9.31)		 224.9
(8.85)		 247.7
(9.75)		 222.9
(8.78)		 178
(7.0)		 1,651.4
(65)
Average rainy days 10 6 5 5 13 12 15 15 15 17 16 15 144
Source: World Weather Online[8]

List of former mayors
Leaders of TownDate
Ferando Ampa1924 - 1927
Placido Buensuceso1927 - 1931
Eulogio Alejo1931 - 1934
Elias Gabriel1934 - 1945
Jose Miranda1945 - 1947
Felicisimo Baua1947 - 1963
Emilio Bueno1964 - 1967
Jose Miranda1967 - 1976
Carlos Dumelod1976 to 1980
Deodoro Go1980
Carlos DumelodDecember 1980 - 1986
Aristotle Claravall1986 - 1987
Romulo S. Taggueg Jr.1987 - 1988
Deodoro Go1988 - 1995
Jesus C. Miranda1995 - 2004
Edgar T. Go2004 - 2013
Dean Anthony Domalanta2013 - 2016
Edgar T. Go2016–present

References
  1.  Municipality of San Mariano | (DILG)
  2. "Province: Isabela". PSGC Interactive. Quezon City, Philippines: Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. Census of Population (2015). "Region II (Cagayan Valley)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. PSA. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  4. "PSA releases the 2015 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Quezon City, Philippines. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  5. Census of Population and Housing (2010). "Region II (Cagayan Valley)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. NSO. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  6. Censuses of Population (1903–2007). "Region II (Cagayan Valley)". Table 1. Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by Province/Highly Urbanized City: 1903 to 2007. NSO.
  7. "Province of Isabela". Municipality Population Data. Local Water Utilities Administration Research Division. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  8. "San Mariano, Isabela: Average Temperatures and Rainfall". World Weather Online. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
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