Santa Barbara, Iloilo
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| Nickname(s): Heritage center of Western Visyas | |
 Map of Iloilo showing the location of Santa Barbara |
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| Coordinates: 10°50′N 122°32′E / 10.83°N 122.53°ECoordinates: 10°50′N 122°32′E / 10.83°N 122.53°E | |
| Country |
 Philippines
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| Region | Western Visayas (Region VI) |
| Province | Iloilo |
| District | 2nd district of Iloilo |
| Barangays | 60 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Dennis S. Superficial |
| • Vice-Mayor | Rema B. Somo |
| Area | |
| • Total | 131.96 km2 (50.95 sq mi) |
| Population (2015 census) | |
| • Total | 60,215 |
| • Density | 460/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+8) |
| ZIP code | 5002 |
| IDD : area code | +63 (0)33 |
| Income class | 1st class |
| Website | www |
Santa Barbara is a first class municipality in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 60,215 people. It is located in the center of Iloilo, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Iloilo City.
Santa Barbara has a land area of 13,196 hectares (32,610 acres), ranks 29th as to size among the 42 municipalities of the province and occupies 1.5% of all lands in the Province of Iloilo. Almost 100% of Santa Barbara’s land is cultivated and alienable or disposable.
The topography of Santa Barbara varies from slightly rolling hills to almost flat or gradually inclined plains, sliced by Tigum River at its centremost, which flows from the north-west to the southeast and the Aganan River in the southern section.
Basically, Santa Barbara is an agricultural town with 84.75% or 6,568.19 hectares (16,230.4 acres) devoted to agriculture. The rolling hills, amounting to 155.99 hectares (385.5 acres), are unsuitable to farming and are utilized as pasture and open grassland. The built-up areas within the poblacion and the barangay areas total 678.98 hectares (1,677.8 acres) or 8.761%. Also included in this category are the areas utilized for commercial, institutional purposes, parks and open space. Agro-industrial area is 101.928 has. or 1.315%, industrial area is .069 % or 5.330 has., utilities or roads comprise 150.853 has. or 1.946% . The area for the cemeteries is 4.720 has. or .061 % and bodies of water is 1.084% or 84 hectares.
There is a distinct climate in this municipality, which is deal for planting of multiple crops. It has a type “C” (moist ) rain sufficiently distributed with almost 4 ½ dry months or first –type climate with two distinct seasons of six months.
The average annual rainfall is 137.47 centimetres (54.12 in). The average temperature is 27.9 °C (82.2 °F). This municipality is not within the country’s typhoon belt although tropical storms and occasional typhoons pass thru it.
Santa Barbara is politically subdivided into 60 barangays.
The Agustinian Archives, Vol. 17-18, which recorded the missionary achievements of the Agustinian missionaries, mentions that in 1617 the missionaries ministered a community then known as Catmon, a name derived from a fruit tree which was an imposing landmark, which sat on a rich and fertile plain traversed by the Salug (now Tigum) and Aganan rivers, producing rice, corn, sugar, mongo and tobacco. Then Catmon was only a “Visita Catmon” of Jaro vicariate.
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