San Miguel, officially the Municipality of San Miguel (
Surigaonon: ''Lungsod nan San Miguel''; tl, Bayan ng San Miguel), is a 1st class
municipality
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in the
province
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of
Surigao del Sur
Surigao del Sur (Surigaonon language, Surigaonon: ''Probinsya nan Surigao del Sur''; ceb, Habagatang Surigao; tl, Timog Surigao), officially the Province of Surigao del Sur, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located ...
,
Philippines
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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 41,809 people.
With an area of , it is the largest among the municipalities and cities in the province. It is also one of the only two landlocked municipalities in the province along with
Tagbina
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.
Antique gold discoveries
In 1981, Edilberto "Berto" Morales, a farmer employed as a bulldozer operator in an irrigation project accidentally
unearthed a
hoard of authentic gold artifacts and jewelries weighing up to 30 kg in Barangay Magroyong which includes masks, figurines, bowls, daggers, trinkets, belts, and all sorts of body ornaments. Through a support of several historical accounts, archaeologists and historians believed that the gold items were associated between 10th to 13th century used by
pre-colonial Filipinos, years before Spaniards came to the country. Some of the golden artifacts, jewelries and ornaments, dubbed as the "Surigao Treasure", were then sold to and currently exhibited at the
Ayala Museum
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in the city of
Makati
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,
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and some pieces at the
Central Bank of the Philippines. Morales' discoveries were then considered one of the first proofs that gold was an important link between the early people of pre-colonial Philippines and the neighboring
Southeast Asian countries
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Geography
Barangays
San Miguel is politically subdivided into 18
barangay
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s.
Climate
Demographics
Economy
References
External links
San Miguel Profile at PhilAtlas.com San Miguel Profile at the DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index*
Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>
Philippine Census InformationLocal Governance Performance Management System
Municipalities of Surigao del Sur
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