Laur | |
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Municipality of Laur | |
Location within the Philippines | |
Coordinates: 15°34′47″N 121°11′11″E / 15.5797°N 121.1864°E | |
Country | Philippines |
Region | Central Luzon |
Province | Nueva Ecija |
District | 3rd district |
Founded | January 13, 1917 |
Named for | Laureana Quijano Tinio, wife of General Manuel Tinio |
Barangays | 17 (see Barangays) |
Government | |
• Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
• Mayor | Alexander A. Daus |
• Vice Mayor | John Joe V. Samano |
• Representative | Rosanna V. Vergara |
• Municipal Council | Members |
• Electorate | 25,304 voters (2022) |
Area | |
• Total | 295.88 km2 (114.24 sq mi) |
Elevation | 100 m (300 ft) |
Highest elevation | 598 m (1,962 ft) |
Lowest elevation | 58 m (190 ft) |
Population (2020 census)[3] | |
• Total | 38,263 |
• Density | 130/km2 (330/sq mi) |
• Households | 9,510 |
Economy | |
• Income class | 3rd municipal income class |
• Poverty incidence | 15.79 |
• Revenue | ₱ 174.3 million (2020) |
• Assets | ₱ 556.6 million (2020) |
• Expenditure | ₱ 147.3 million (2020) |
• Liabilities | ₱ 150.5 million (2020) |
Service provider | |
• Electricity | Nueva Ecija 2 Area 2 Electric Cooperative (NEECO 2 A2) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
ZIP code | 3129 |
PSGC | |
IDD : area code | +63 (0)44 |
Native languages | Tagalog Ilocano |
Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur (Tagalog: Bayan ng Laur, Ilocano: Ili ti Laur), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon region of Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 38,263 people.[3] Laur is located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Laur is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Palayan, 145 kilometres (90 mi) from Manila, and 117 kilometres (73 mi) from Baler.
The town got its name after the name of the wife of Gen. Manuel Tino, Laureana.
Originally, the town was a barrio of the municipality of Bongabon, named San Esteban, after its patron saint, Stephen I of Hungary. Immigrating settlers of the community were mostly Tagalog and Ilocanos from the provinces of Ilocos Region and Pangasinan with some Kapampangans from the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.[5]
On January 13, 1917, via Executive Order No. 98 by then Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison, Laur was separated as its own town from Bongabon, and named from the wife of Gen. Manuel Tinio, Laureana. Gen. Tinio himself will have the town of Papaya named after him, as "General Tinio" in 1957. Laur borders General Tinio to the south.
Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Jose W. Diokno were kept in solitary confinement for exactly thirty days in 1973 within Fort Magsaysay in Laur. It is now a museum and houses the AFP Center for Human Rights Dialogue.[6]
Laur is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. Each barangay consist of puroks and some have sitios.
Climate data for Laur, Nueva Ecija | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 27 (81) |
28 (82) |
29 (84) |
31 (88) |
31 (88) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
29 (84) |
27 (81) |
29 (85) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20 (68) |
20 (68) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
23 (73) |
22 (72) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 25 (1.0) |
26 (1.0) |
18 (0.7) |
24 (0.9) |
91 (3.6) |
145 (5.7) |
149 (5.9) |
122 (4.8) |
120 (4.7) |
128 (5.0) |
61 (2.4) |
52 (2.0) |
961 (37.7) |
Average rainy days | 7.7 | 5.7 | 6.8 | 8.0 | 18.2 | 22.1 | 24.3 | 23.4 | 22.7 | 17.5 | 10.0 | 9.4 | 175.8 |
Source: Meteoblue[7] |
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Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[8][9][10][11] |
Poverty incidence of Laur
10
20
30
40
2006
30.50 2009
31.18 2012
25.38 2015
20.99 2018
5.69 2021
15.79 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] |
Past Mayors of Laur are as follows:
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