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Catarman | |
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| Municipality of Catarman | |
.jpg) Catarman Town Proper | |
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 Map of Northern Samar with Catarman highlighted | |
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.svg)  Catarman Location within thePhilippines | |
| Coordinates:12°29′58″N124°37′58″E / 12.4994°N 124.6328°E /12.4994; 124.6328 | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Region | Eastern Visayas |
| Province | Northern Samar |
| District | 1st district |
| Barangays | 55 (seeBarangays) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
| • Mayor | Dianne E. Rosales |
| • Vice Mayor | Francisco C. Rosales Jr. |
| • Representative | Niko Raul S. Daza |
| • Councilors | List
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| • Electorate | 63,766 voters (2025) |
| Area | |
• Total | 464.43 km2 (179.32 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 142 m (466 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | −1 m (−3.3 ft) |
| Population (2024 census)[3] | |
• Total | 97,738 |
| • Density | 210.45/km2 (545.06/sq mi) |
| • Households | 20,836 |
| Demonym | Catarmananon |
| Economy | |
| • Income class | 1st municipal income class |
| • Poverty incidence | 20.64 |
| • Revenue | ₱ 539.8 million (2022) |
| • Assets | ₱ 1,327 million (2022) |
| • Expenditure | ₱ 457.5 million (2022) |
| • Liabilities | ₱ 334.3 million (2022) |
| Service provider | |
| • Electricity | Northern Samar Electric Cooperative (NORSAMELCO) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
| Zip Code | 6400 |
| PSGC | |
| IDD : area code | +63 (0)55 |
| Native languages | Waray Tagalog |
| Website | www |
Catarman, officially theMunicipality of Catarman (Waray [Ninorte Samarnon]:Bungto san Catarman;Tagalog:Bayan ng Catarman), is amunicipality and capital of theprovince ofNorthern Samar,Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 97,879 people.[5] It is the commercial, educational, financial, and political center of the province. It is the most populous municipality inEastern Visayas.
Before the coming of the Spaniards, Catarman (also known as Calatman or Cataruman) was a settlement by the mouth of the river of the same name in the region called Ibabao. The Spanish Conquistadors applied the term Ibabao to the northern part of Samar island when it established its civil government. The similarities in the vocabularies and pronunciation of the dialects of these areas traces them to a common root as a people.
The town was one of the 13 villages and settlements and adopted as pueblos by the Spaniards in Samar Island and was one of the settlements in the northern parts of the island. The pueblo was named Calatman and was one of the pueblos in the Visayan islands, then collectively referred to asIslas de Pintados [Island of the Painted Ones].
In 1974, Catarman was made the center of the episcopal see of the then newly establishedRoman Catholic Diocese of Catarman comprising the Northern Samar province, with theOur Lady of the Annunciation Parish Church as the designatedcathedral.[6]
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Catarman lies on the northern part ofSamar Island, bounded to the east byMondragon, to the west byBobon, to the south byLope de Vega, to the southwest by Calbayog City, and to the north by thePhilippine Sea.
On the Pacific coast are flat lowlands with the interior characterized by outlying low hills. Mount Puyao in Barangay Liberty is the highest peak in the area. The Catarman River, a major provincial river, divides the eastern and the western parts of the town. It is fed by the Paticua, Hibulwangan, Mahangna, Tura, and Danao creeks together with less prominent estuaries.
Catarman is politically subdivided into 55barangays. Each barangay consists ofpuroks and some havesitios.
| Climate data for Catarman, Northern Samar (1991–2020, extremes 1949–2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34.2 (93.6) | 34.0 (93.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 37.2 (99.0) | 37.7 (99.9) | 38.0 (100.4) | 36.7 (98.1) | 37.1 (98.8) | 37.5 (99.5) | 35.5 (95.9) | 36.0 (96.8) | 34.3 (93.7) | 38.0 (100.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.3 (84.7) | 29.9 (85.8) | 30.7 (87.3) | 32.0 (89.6) | 33.1 (91.6) | 32.9 (91.2) | 32.3 (90.1) | 32.8 (91.0) | 32.6 (90.7) | 31.6 (88.9) | 30.8 (87.4) | 29.9 (85.8) | 31.5 (88.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.0 (78.8) | 26.2 (79.2) | 26.7 (80.1) | 27.6 (81.7) | 28.5 (83.3) | 28.4 (83.1) | 28.1 (82.6) | 28.5 (83.3) | 28.2 (82.8) | 27.6 (81.7) | 27.1 (80.8) | 26.6 (79.9) | 27.5 (81.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.7 (72.9) | 22.5 (72.5) | 22.6 (72.7) | 23.2 (73.8) | 23.9 (75.0) | 24.0 (75.2) | 23.9 (75.0) | 24.1 (75.4) | 23.9 (75.0) | 23.6 (74.5) | 23.5 (74.3) | 23.3 (73.9) | 23.5 (74.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 16.9 (62.4) | 17.2 (63.0) | 17.6 (63.7) | 19.0 (66.2) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.8 (69.4) | 20.6 (69.1) | 19.4 (66.9) | 19.9 (67.8) | 17.8 (64.0) | 18.2 (64.8) | 16.9 (62.4) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 520.1 (20.48) | 310.5 (12.22) | 312.4 (12.30) | 152.5 (6.00) | 162.9 (6.41) | 217.3 (8.56) | 221.9 (8.74) | 167.7 (6.60) | 205.8 (8.10) | 331.9 (13.07) | 457.8 (18.02) | 689.9 (27.16) | 3,750.7 (147.67) |
| Average rainy days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 21 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 22 | 24 | 185 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 89 | 87 | 86 | 84 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 83 | 84 | 86 | 88 | 89 | 86 |
| Source:PAGASA[7][8] | |||||||||||||
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| Source:Philippine Statistics Authority[9][10][11][12][13] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Poverty incidence of Catarman
10 20 30 40 50 2000 37.92 2003 35.06 2006 29.80 2009 43.38 2012 34.83 2015 36.02 2018 30.27 2021 20.64 Source:Philippine Statistics Authority[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] |
PAL Express is the only airline operating through theCatarman National Airport, with flights between Manila and Catarman four times weekly and recently a 3x per week flight from Catarman to Cebu City . Flights are frequently booked well in advance due to ticket costs. Pedicabs and motorized tricycles are the means of transportation within the town.Jeepneys, vans, and buses are the means of transportation between Catarman and neighboring towns. Several vans andbus companies also operate to serve travelers between the town andManila.
Catarman is home to theUniversity of Eastern Philippines, the first state university in the Visayas and the largest university by student population and curriculum inEastern Visayas. The university has satellite campuses in the province, one inLaoang and the other inCatubig (officially known the Pedro Rebadulla Memorial Campus), and has several extension programs offered across satellite campuses in the region.
Other prominent public and private educational institutions:
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