Panglima Estino, officially the Municipality of Panglima Estino (
Tausūg: ''Kawman sin Panglima Estino''; ), is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
province
A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Sulu
Sulu (), officially the Province of Sulu (Tausug language, Tausūg: ''Wilaya' sin Lupa' Sūg''; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province of the Philippines in the Sulu Archipelago.
It was part of the Bangsamoro, Bangsamoro Autonomous R ...
,
Philippines
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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,249 people.
History
On January 1, 1980, then President
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, and Kleptocracy, kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled the c ...
enacted Presidential Decree No. 1663 creating the municipality of New Panamao from the mother municipality of
Panamao. However to avoid confusion from the mother municipality, on January 2, 1981, then President Marcos enacted Presidential Decree No. 1757 renaming New Panamao to its current name, Panglima Estino.
Geography
Barangays
Panglima Estino is politically subdivided into 12
barangay
The barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as ''barrio'', is the smallest Administrative divisions of the Philippines, administrative division in the Philippines. Named after the Precolonial barangay, precolonial po ...
s. Each barangay consists of
puroks while some have
sitios.
* Gagguil
* Gata-gata
* Jinggan
* Kamih-Pungud
* Lihbug Kabaw
* Likbah
* Lubuk-lubuk
* Marsada
* Paiksa
* Pandakan
* Punay (
Poblacion)
* Tiptipon
Climate
Demographics
Economy
Poverty Incidence of
References
External links
Panglima Estino Profile at PhilAtlas.com*
Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>
Panglima Estino Profile at the DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitive IndexPhilippine Census InformationLocal Governance Performance Management System
Municipalities of Sulu
Establishments by Philippine presidential decree
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