South Upi, officially the Municipality of South Upi (
Maguindanaon
Maguindanaon (, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ), or Magindanawn is an Austronesian language spoken by Maguindanao people, Maguindanaon people who form majority of the population of eponymous provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur in t ...
: ''Pagabagatan Upi'';
Iranun
The Iranun are an Austronesian ethnic group native to southwestern Mindanao, Philippines. They are ethnically and culturally closely related to the Maranao, and Maguindanaon, all three groups being denoted as speaking Danao languages and giv ...
: ''Inged a South Upi''; ), is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in the
province
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of
Maguindanao del Sur
Maguindanao del Sur, officially the Province of Maguindanao del Sur (, Jawi Alphabet, Jawi:دايرت نو سلاتان مڬیندانو, ), is a landlocked Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Bangsamoro reg ...
,
Philippines
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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 43,197 people.
It also known as Timanan.
History
South Upi was created through Presidential Decree No. 1011 by 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 ...
on September 22, 1976. It was carved from the municipality of
Upi
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.
Geography
Barangays
South Upi is politically subdivided into 11
barangay
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s. Each barangay consists of
purok
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s while some have
sitios
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.
* Biarong
* Bongo
* Itaw
* Kigan
* Kuya
* Lamud
* Looy
* Pandan
* Pilar
* Romangaob (Poblacion)
* San Jose
Climate
Demographics
Economy
Poverty Incidence of
References
External links
South Upi Profile at the DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitive Index*
Philippine Standard Geographic Code The Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC) is a systematic classification and coding for geographic areas in the Philippines. It classifies areas based on the country's four levels of administrative divisions: regions, provinces, municipalities ...
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Philippine Census InformationLocal Governance Performance Management System
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Municipalities of Maguindanao del Sur
Establishments by Philippine presidential decree