Santa Josefa, officially the Municipality of Santa Josefa, is a 3^rd 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 50^th araw ng Sta. Josefa and 19^th 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

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