Dipaculao , officially the Municipality of Dipaculao (; ), is a

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in the

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 33,131 people. The municipality is home to the Dinadiawan River Protected Landscape.

Etymology

The word Dipaculao allegedly stems from when the

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, the first inhabitants, held thanksgiving festivities to celebrate an abundant hunt and harvest. Their chieftain Dipac was drunk on '' basi'' and ''

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'', so when he fell the Ilocanos present shouted: "''Dipac naulaw''" or "''Naulaw ni Dipac''" (“Dipac got dizzy”, idiomatically "Dipac is/got drunk").Municipality of Dipaculao website
/ref> This etymology is doubtful as the name already appeared in Spanish records, when Franciscan priests established ''Misión de San Miguel de Dipaculao'' in 1719; at the time, there were no Ilocano settlers yet as the Ilongot were headhunters. The name Dipaculao is likely derived from "''di''” ("native of" or "come from") and the Pakugao River, wherein “Pakugao” is composed of Ilongot words "''paku''" ("fern"), and "''gao''" ("get”).

History

In the early 1921, migrants from

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including Ilocanos, mostly from neighboring

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, arrived at present-day municipality, which was then a large strip of virgin land by the

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, then part of Nueva Vizcaya from where others arrived. Another wave of Ilocano settlers arrived from the

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, including

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and

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from the Cordilleras also came down to lived alongside Ilocanos and the aboriginal Ilongot. Other ethnic groups who came to and stayed in Dipaculao include Christianized Gaddang and Isinai settlers who settled the surrounding lowlands of Baler Bay, Gaddang from Nueva Vizcaya and

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and Isinai from Nueva Vizcaya. Later that year, the large strip of land where the municipality is located was returned to

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(present-day Quezon Province). On November 27, 1950, Dipaculao was converted from a ''

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'' of

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into an independent municipality of

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via Executive Order No. 375 by

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. Anacleto Mijares was the first Municipal Mayor, and administered the transition. On June 21, 1957, the ''

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s'' of Dimabuno, Laboy, Dinadiawan and Puangi were converted into ''barrio''s. Several more sitios were converted into ''barrios'' on June 18, 1966.

Geography

According to the

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, the municipality has a land area of constituting of the total area of Aurora. Dipaculao is situated from the provincial capital

, and from the country's capital city of

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Barangays

Dipaculao is politically subdivided into 25

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s, as shown in the matrix below. Each barangay consists of

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s and some have

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Climate

Demographics

As of the 2020 census, Dipaculao had a population of 33,131. The population density was .

Economy

Education

The Dipaculao Schools District Office governs all educational institutions within the municipality. It oversees the management and operations of all private and public, from primary to secondary schools.

Primary and elementary schools

* Bayabas Elementary School * Borlongan Elementary School * Calaocan Elementary School * Diamanen Elementary School * Dianed Elementary School * Diarabasin Elementary School * Dibutunan Elementary School * Dinadiawan Elementary School * Dipaculao Central School * Ditale Elementary School * Emeterio M. Quirino Elementary School * Gupa Elementary School * Ipil Elementary School * John Wesley Child Development Center * Laboy Elementary School * Lipit Elementary School * Lobbot Elementary School * Maligaya Elementary School * Mijares Elementary School * Mucdol Elementary School * Puangi Elementary School * Sapangkawayan Elementary School * Teodorico A. Molina Sr. Elementary School * Toytoyan Elementary School

Secondary schools

* Borlongan National High School * Dipaculao National High School * Dinadiawan National High School * Diarabasin National High School * Father John Karash Memorial High School * Mijares National High School * Puangi National High School

Higher educational institution

* Dipaculao College of Science and Technology

Gallery

File:Dipaculaojf.JPG, South Poblacion File:Din1574jf.JPG, Dinadiawan white beach (a long stretch of clean, fine, golden white sand coastline) File:Dinadiawan456jf.JPG, Rock formations along the shoreline (north of Baler along the Dicadi highway) File:Ampere Beach, Dipaculao, Aurora.jpg, Ampere Beach and Ampere Rock in Dipaculao

References

External links

* Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>Dipaculao
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