Santa Josefa, officially the Municipality of Santa Josefa, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 26,729 people.
Santa
Josefa is a municipality in the landlocked province of Agusan del Sur.
The
municipality has a land area of 341.80 square kilometers or 131.97 square miles
which constitutes 3.42% of Agusan del Sur province, or 1.03% of the overall
population of the Caraga region. Based on these figures, the population density
is computed at inhabitants per square kilometer or 203 inhabitants per square
mile.
Santa
Josefa has 11 baarangays such as Angas, Aurora, Awao, Concepcion, Pag-asa,
Patrocinio, Poblacion, San Jose, Santa Isabel, Sayon, and Tapaz.
SANTA JOSEFA MINI PARK
MUNICIPALITY OF SANTA JOSEFA
SANTA JOSEFA BRIDGE
Taphagan
Festival
Santa Josefa, a municipality of the province of Agusan
del Sur, Philippines celebrates its Taphagan Festival every year particularly
at end of March.
Santa Josefa, an ecotourism
municipality that incorporates the promotion of their tourism with the
preservation and promotion of its discrete culture, and with a noticeable
endorsement to practice agricultural-business among the people of Santa Josefa.
Considering that Santa Josefa is a vast land for planting
crops like corn, rice, coconut, calamansi, calamansi juice (SJ mansi) and many
more, the people of Santa Josefa are encouraged to think out of the box- to
generate new kinds of innovations that would cater more source of income and to
hopefully result in an increase in employment.
Majority of the people in the said municipality are
farmers, that is why Taphagan represents them as one people with one culture.
Long ago, the indigenous people of Santa Josefa practiced Taphag rituals to
demonstrate how grateful they are for the abundance they've received. Taphag
rituals are anciently led by Babaylans, a religious leader.
President Rodrigo Duterte visited at 50th araw ng Sta. Josefa
and 19th Taphagan Festival.
School: Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology
Bunawan, Agusan del Sur
Subject: MATHEMATICS in the Modern World
Instructor: Matthew E. Cañeda, MAED
Bunawan, Agusan del Sur
Subject: MATHEMATICS in the Modern World
Instructor: Matthew E. Cañeda, MAED
CREDITS:
REFERENCE:
Municipality of Santa
Josefa(2010) Santa Josefa. Retrieved on July 21, 2019 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Josefa
