Loreto Central Elementary School

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Loreto National High School

(Lagiwan Festival)

Loreto Academy

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For a list of elementary schools under Loreto District, click here

Loreto, Dinagat Islands
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Loreto is a 5th class municipality in the province of Dinagat Island, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 8,751 people in 1,840 households.

In the northern side of the mainland of Surigao del Norte lies Dinagat Island which was dubbed by General Douglas MacArthur as one of the "three sentinel islands guarding the Central Philippines from the enemies in the Pacific". Loreto is one of the seven municipalities established in this island. It is endowed with rich mineral resources like aluminous laterite ore, chromite, gold, niceliferous laterite, sand and gravel, guano, rock phosphate, limestone, and siliceous sand. It is also considered as an excellent fishing ground.

The municipality is blessed with historical places and natural beauty spots like white beaches, waterfalls, hot springs and clusters of mountains. These include Polo Beach, Black Beach No. 2, Cambinliw Falls and River, Krominco Campsite, Loreto Desolation Point Light House, and Esperanza Natural Spring Resort.

Loreto is politically subdivided into 10 barangays. * Carmen (Pob.) * Esperanza * Ferdinand * Helene * Liberty * Magsaysay * Panamaon * San Juan (Pob.) * Santa Cruz (Pob.) * Santiago (Pob.)

Situated in the northern tip of Dinagat Island, province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines, this town was created as a municipality in September 4, 1890 by then Governor General Manuel Sanchez.

Surigao del Norte lies at the northeastern tip of Mindanao and encompasses several islands, the most important of which are Dinagat, Siargao and Bucas Grande. It is flanked on the north by the Leyte Gulf, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the west by Bohol Sea and on the south by Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Sur. The terrain at the mainland is largely mountainous. The province has a total land area of 273,902 hectares divided into 27 municipalities, one city and 420 barangays with 2 congressional districts. It is a 3rd class province. Surigao City, its provincial capital, has 53 barangays.

Climate. The province falls under type II with no pronounced dry season, but a very prononced maximum rainfall from November to January. The average monthly maxima of 600 mm in December and January and monthly minima of about 150 mm in August and September. However, the incidence of rainfall during the same month in different years appears highly variable. The average number of rainy days per month is 20 to 25 from November to March and 13 to 18 from April to October. Although open to the Pacific Ocean on the Easter coast, the province is less prone to typhoons than eastern coast, at the further north which is exposed to about seven percent of all those hitting the Philippines.

Tubajon
Province: Surigao del Norte
Land Area (Sq. Km): 90.0
Population (1995): 6,155
No. of Barangays (1999): 9
Voting Population (1992) Male: 1,826; Female: 1,682

North of Loreto is the municipality of Tubajon which became a municipality on June 21, 1969

Loreto Central Elementary School
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(Lagiwan Festival)

Acoje Elementary School
Busay Elementary School
Cambiniliw Elementary School
Dahican Primary School
Esperanza Elementary School
Ferdinand Primary School
Liberty Elementary School
Magsaysay Elementary School
Panamaon Elementary School

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS UNDER TUBAJON DISTRICT

Tubajon Central Elementary School
Babangnan Elementary School
Imelda Elementary School
Mabini Elementary School
Malinao Elementary School
Mauro Diaz Elementary School
Navarro Primary School
Roxas Elementary School
Sta. Cruz Elementary School

PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Loreto National High School
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(Lagiwan Festival)

Tubajon National High School

PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Loreto Academy
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(Lagiwan Festival)

Radio Tubajon DXTT-FM 95.8. supported by the Tambuli Radio Network

By air - Philippine Airlines has flights from Manila to Cebu to Surigao City.

By boat – Private operators provide daily schedules from Bilang-bilang port, in Surigao City. The boat trip takes about four hours.

Accommodations
Black Beach Lodge
Campintac
Operated by the Municipality of Loreto

Popular Sites
Black Beach, Campintac

Created as a municipality in 1898, Loreto was reduced to a barrio in 1902 after the American soldiers razed it to the ground. However, it regained its township in 1919 through the untiring efforts of its civic-spirited leaders.

The municipality were populated by Boholanos who were the original settlers; Leyteños, Cebuanos, Samareños and other immigrants followed suit.

Copra had been most important export and lumbering an important industry. Loreto is situated along a coastal plain, and fish abound in its waters.

In the lowlands grow the tikug grasses utilized then and now by the womenfolk as materials in making mats which are in great demand because of the fine workmanship and durability. The local weavers have learned the embroidery designs of the well-known Basey mat-makers. On the rocky mountains from as far as Omasdang near the Desolation point, to the southern hills of Sinaongag, now Navarro, are found such rich minerals as chromite, manganese, copper, coal and the like.

Other sources of income then were the hard wood exported to different places in the country and the well-known species of orchids, the so- called "aristocrats of the woodland" such as the mariposa or butterfly orchids, the tiger, dendrubium anespum, dendrobium superbum, which were abundantly found in the forests of the municipality."

- ODON C. GALIDO

Source: 1970 Souvenir Program of Philippine Public Schools Inter-scholastic Athletic Association Meet (PPSIAA)