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Saturday, 30 August 2008 17:41

Table shows the land classification of Aurora Province. It consists of two (2) major classification which include alienable and disposable land and forestland. The former has an extent of 72,562 hectares and 236,804 hectares for the latter, equivalent to 2.3 and 77 percent, respectively of the province's total land area.

Area Distribution By Municipality
Aurora Province

 

Municipality

Total

A & D

Forest Land

Grand

Total

TL

NP

CR

MR

Total

Dilasag

8,116

33,909

0

0

0

33,909

43,025

Casiguran

8,546

48,122

0

0

0

48,122

56,668

Dinalungan

4,752

29,196

0

279

0

29,475

34,227

Dipaculao

9,711

27,836

0

0

0

27,836

37,547

Ma. Aurora

15,840

20,821

3,727

0

0

24,548

110,388

Baler

3,256

3,609

0

0

0

3,609

6,865

San Luis

10,469

51,574

633

0

0

52,197

28,980

Dingalan

11,872

13,582

0

0

3,526

17,108

28,980

Grand Total

72,562

228,649

4,310

279

3,526

236,804

309,366

Source: DENR, 2002

TL - Timber Land NP - National Park CR - Civil Reservations MR - Military Reserves

Note: The total area reflected excluded the disputed area with the provinces of Quezon on the south and Isabela on the north. 

Aurora Province is comprised of 151 barangays. The municipality of Maria Aurora has the biggest number of Barangays with forty (40) barangays, while Dinalungan has the least with only nine (9) barangays (Table 7).

Number of Barangay By Municipality
Aurora Province

Municipality

No. of Brgys.

Baler

Casiguran

Dilasag

Dinalungan

Dingalan

Dipaculao

Maria Aurora

San Luis

13

24

11

9

11

25

40

18

Total

151

                                Source: PPDO, 2003

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