Calauan

Coordinates: 14°09′N 121°19′E / 14.15°N 121.32°E / 14.15; 121.32
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Calauan
Municipality of Calauan
Downtown area of Calauan
Downtown area of Calauan
Flag of Calauan
Official seal of Calauan
Nickname: 
Home of the Sweet Laguna Pineapple[1]
Map of Laguna with Calauan highlighted
Map of Laguna with Calauan highlighted
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Calauan is located in Philippines
Calauan
Calauan
Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 14°09′N 121°19′E / 14.15°N 121.32°E / 14.15; 121.32
CountryPhilippines
RegionCalabarzon
ProvinceLaguna
District 3rd district
Barangays17 (see
Vice Mayor
Allan Jun V. Sanchez
 • RepresentativeLoreto S. Amante
 • Municipal Council
Members
 • 
ZIP code
4012
PSGC
IDD:area code+63 (0)49
Native languagesTagalog
Websitewww.calauanlaguna.gov.ph

Calauan (IPA:

province of Laguna, Philippines. The municipality has a land area of 25.25 square miles which constitutes 3.41% of Laguna's total area. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 87,693 people.[4]

Situated at 73 kilometers (45 mi) southeast of Manila, via Calamba and Los Baños, and 26 kilometers (16 mi) from Santa Cruz. Calauan is known for the Pineapple Festival, which is celebrated every 15 May.

The patron saint of Calauan is Isidore the Laborer, the patron of farmers, known in Spanish as San Isidro Labrador.

Calauan's population is expected to rise, as the town is being used as resettlement of informal settlers in

ABS-CBN Foundation
.

Popular destinations in the area include the Field of Faith situated in Barangay Lamot 2 and the Isdaan Floating Restaurant located along the National Highway going to Victoria Laguna.

Etymology

Calauan got its name from the Tagalog term kalawang, which means rust. Folklore has it that the town got its name when the Spanish started construction of the Municipal Church and water seeped in from the holes dug into the ground for the Church's foundation. The water was colored brown and rusty in character, hence the name Calauan (Kalawang).

History

The fertile soil of Calauan attracted the attention of Captain Juan de Salcedo, when he passed through Laguna and Tayabas (now Quezon) on his way to Bicol Region in 1570. Ten years later, Spanish authorities established a town government two kilometers from the site of the present Poblacion, in what is now Barrio Mabacan. They called the townsite “Calauan” (Tagalog word for rust). Following in epidemic in 1703, the town was moved to its present site at the fork of three roads---now to the south-west leading to San Pablo City, the other southeastward to Santa Cruz, the provincial capital, and the third going North to Manila.

At the turn of the 18th century, when Bay was designated as the provincial capital of Laguna, Calauan became a sitio of Bay. Merchants going to Southern Luzon passed through Bay and Calauan. One of them, an opulent Spaniard by the name of Iñigo, bought large tracts of land in Calauan in 1812. The landholdings of Iñigo and, later, of his heirs were so vast that many portions were still unsettled. The property was and still is, known as Hacienda Calauan. About a century later, the people of Calauan fought a “guardia civil” during the Philippine Revolution. Basilio Geiroza (better known as Cabesang Basilio) and his men routed a battalion of “guardia civiles” in a five-hour battle in Bario Cupangan (now Lamot I) in December 1897. During the subsequent Philippine-American hostilities, Calauan patriots fought numerically superior forces of General Otis in Barrio San Diego of San Pablo. With the establishment of civilian authority in Calauan in 1902, the Americans assigned Mariano Marfori as first “presidente”. Hacienda Calauan financed the construction of a hospital in 1926, and Mariano O. Marfori Jr. son of the first municipal presidente, as hospital director and the resident physician, respectively.

In

Spaniard
, Iñigo., subdivided Hacienda Calauan and sold it to the tenants, part of what remained was converted into a rest house and a swimming pool and it became one of the tourist attractions until 1956.

In 1993, the town became the focus of media attention when Antonio Sanchez, who was serving as mayor at the time, got involved into a rape and double murder case involving two UPLB students. Sanchez and several other men were given a life sentence in March 1995.[6]

Geography

Geographical landmarks

Barangay Lamot 2 in Calauan is the site is the site of Mount Kalisungan,

Caliraya highlands to the east, the seven lakes of San Pablo, Mount San Cristobal and Mount Banahaw to the south, and Mount Makiling to the west.[7]

Barangays

Welcome Arch

Calauan is politically subdivided into 17

sitios
.

  • Balayhangin
  • Bangyas
  • Dayap
  • Hanggan
  • Imok
  • Lamot 1
  • Lamot 2
  • Limao
  • Mabacan
  • Masiit
  • Paliparan
  • Pérez
  • Kanluran (Poblacion)
  • Silangan (Poblacion)
  • Prinza
  • San Isidro
  • Santo Tomas

Climate

Climate data for Calauan, Laguna
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 27
(81)
28
(82)
30
(86)
32
(90)
31
(88)
30
(86)
29
(84)
29
(84)
29
(84)
29
(84)
28
(82)
27
(81)
29
(84)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 21
(70)
20
(68)
21
(70)
22
(72)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
24
(75)
23
(73)
22
(72)
22
(72)
23
(73)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 52
(2.0)
35
(1.4)
27
(1.1)
27
(1.1)
82
(3.2)
124
(4.9)
163
(6.4)
144
(5.7)
145
(5.7)
141
(5.6)
100
(3.9)
102
(4.0)
1,142
(45)
Average rainy days 12.0 8.1 8.8 9.7 17.9 22.6 26.2 24.5 24.6 22.0 16.7 14.9 208
Source: Meteoblue (Use with caution: this is modeled/calculated data, not measured locally.)[9]

Demographics

Population census of Calauan
YearPop.±% p.a.
1903 2,624—    
1918 2,832+0.51%
1939 7,302+4.61%
1948 9,180+2.58%
1960 13,168+3.05%
1970 19,747+4.13%
1975 23,370+3.44%
1980 25,259+1.57%
1990 32,736+2.63%
1995 36,677+2.15%
2000 43,284+3.61%
2007 54,248+3.16%
2010 74,890+12.45%
2015 80,453+1.37%
2020 87,693+1.71%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[10][11][12][13]

In the 2020 census, the population of Calauan, Laguna, was 87,693 people,[4] with a density of 1,300 inhabitants per square kilometer or 3,400 inhabitants per square mile.

Economy

Commercial area in Calauan


Government

Calauan Municipal Hall
Calauan municipal officials (2022–2025)
Name Party
Mayor
Roseller G. Caratihan Lakas
Vice Mayor
Allan Jun V. Sanchez Lakas
Municipal Councilors
Ave Marie Tonee S. Alcid Independent
Aldrin P. Alimbuyog
PDP–Laban
June Joseph F. Brion Independent
Mark Austine C. Camargo Independent
Charles Owen M. Caratihan
PDP–Laban
Joewel M. Gonzales Nacionalista
Joselito M. Manalo Lakas
Allan Antonio V. Sanchez II Lakas

References

  1. ^ "Calauan official website". Calauanlaguna.gov.ph. Archived from the original on 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
  2. (DILG)
  3. (PDF) from the original on May 25, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Census of Population (2020). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  5. ^ "PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Philippine Statistics Authority. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  6. ^ "'A plot hatched in hell': Timeline of the Gomez-Sarmenta murder case". ABS-CBN News. August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d Henares, Ivan (2007-08-14). "Mt. Kalisungan itinerary". Pinoy Mountaineer. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  8. ^ "Province: Laguna". PSGC Interactive. Quezon City, Philippines: Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  9. ^ "Calauan: Average Temperatures and Rainfall". Meteoblue. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  10. ^ Census of Population (2015). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  11. ^ Census of Population and Housing (2010). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)" (PDF). Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. National Statistics Office. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
  12. ^ Censuses of Population (1903–2007). "Region IV-A (Calabarzon)". Table 1. Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by Province/Highly Urbanized City: 1903 to 2007. National Statistics Office.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Province of Laguna". Municipality Population Data.
    Local Water Utilities Administration
    Research Division. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  14. ^ "Poverty incidence (PI):". Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  15. ^ "Estimation of Local Poverty in the Philippines" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 29 November 2005.
  16. ^ "2003 City and Municipal Level Poverty Estimates" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 23 March 2009.
  17. ^ "City and Municipal Level Poverty Estimates; 2006 and 2009" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 3 August 2012.
  18. ^ "2012 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 31 May 2016.
  19. ^ "Municipal and City Level Small Area Poverty Estimates; 2009, 2012 and 2015". Philippine Statistics Authority. 10 July 2019.
  20. ^ "PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Philippine Statistics Authority. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.

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