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Geographic Location
The municipality of Magsingal is the
fourth northern most town of Ilocos Sur Province
Region I. It lies within 120° 20’ to 20° 34’ east
longitude and 17° 40’ to 17° 44’ north latitude.
It is bounded on the south by Sto.
Domingo, on the north by San Juan and part of Ilocos
Norte , on the east by Abra and on the west by South
China Sea.
The municipality is traversed by the
Manila North Road. It is 13 kilometers north of the
capital city of Vigan;
approximately 420 kilometers north of Manila; 150
kilometers north of San Fernando City, La Union; and
68 kilometers south of Laoag
City. It can be reached by land transportation like
bus, jeepneys, cars and other vehicles; and also by
water using boat or ship.
Land Area Classification
Magsingal has a land area of 8,500
hectares, as per records of the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources. About three (3)
percent only of this area comprises the urban barangay,
while the rest comprises the rural barangays.
Barangay Maratudo has the largest area while Barangay
San Julian has the smallest. Alienable and Disposable
Lands has an aggregate land area of 8,290 hectares or
97.53 percent of the total land area of the
municipality. The rest of the area is forest land.
Climate
The municipality, like other
municipalities of the region, has a distinct wet and
dry season. Rain starts at the later part of May and
usually ends in October. It is during this period
when the basic staple food, rice, is planted.
Rainfalls precipitated by the northwest monsoon and
occasionally augmented by typhoons are present during
these months.
Climate is generally warm. Humidity
comes in advent of the rainy season. Relative
humidity has its highest in August and lowest in
April. Temperature range from 27.3°C and reaches as
high as 30°C during summer in April. The mean
temperature is 26.59 °C. It rises to as high as
33.8°C in April and down as low as 22.5° C in
December. Monthly average number of rainy days is
13. The average rainfall is 27.18 while relative
humidity is 87.3 percent.
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