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Catanduanes

Catanduanes is a province in the Bicol Region of Luzon, Philippines. Its population was 261,169 in the 2024 census, and it has 11 municipalities.

  • Population: 2024 Census
  • Places: PSGC 2Q 2026
  • Checked by Scene: October 8, 2026
  • Page updated: October 9, 2026
Steep green headlands and dark cliffs dropping into a calm sea, with a small island offshore and the sun breaking through clouds over the horizon.
Binurong Point, in Baras, at sunrise.Photo: “Binurong Point, Catanduanes” by ASEBASTIAN1218, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized by Scene. Scene's copy is shared under the same licence.

  • PeopleSources

    261,169

    people counted in the 2024 censusCensusA count of every person in the country, all on one day. The 2024 census counted people as they were on 1 July 2024.More in the glossary

    Up 6% from 2010 to 2024

  • Rank by peopleSources

    6th

    of the 6 provinces of Bicol Region by population, 2024Rank and shareWorked out by Scene from the PSA's counts: where a place stands among the places listed with it, and how many of every 100 of its parent's people live in it.More in the glossary

    About 4 of every 100 people in Bicol Region lived in Catanduanes in 2024 (4.31%)

  • Inside itSources

    11

    cities and municipalities

    315 barangays

  • LandSources

    1,466.91 km²

    of land, 2019 masterlistLand areaThe land inside the place's official boundary. A square kilometre is a square 1 km on each side, about the size of 140 football fields.Explained by Scene: Catanduanes's land would fill a square about 38.3 km on each side. That is only a way to picture its size: its real shape is on the map.More in the glossary

    Average density, 2024: 178 people per km²Population densityHow crowded a place is on average: its people divided by its land area. 1,000 people per square kilometre is 10 people per hectare, a square of 100 by 100 metres.Explained by Scene: About 2 people per hectare if everyone were spread evenly across the land. In fact people live closer together in towns and farther apart in the countryside.More in the glossary

  • HomesSources

    62,544

    households in 2024HouseholdA person living alone, or people who sleep in the same home and share their meals. A family may be one household or several.More in the glossary

    4.2 people in each, on average, in 2024

  • Town or countrySources

    10%

    About 10 of every 100 people lived in urban barangays in 2024Urban barangayThe PSA counts a barangay as urban when it has 5,000 people or more, or a big employer, or several businesses and public services close by. Every barangay in Metro Manila is urban.More in the glossary

PSGC codePSGC codeThe code the Philippine Statistics Authority gives every place, so each one is known exactly, even when two share a name.More in the glossary
0502000000[4]Formerly 052000000

People

Catanduanes had 261,169 people in the 2024 census, up 6% from 2010.
People at each census since 1960

Counts from 2000 on are on today’s borders; earlier counts are as the place was then, so the line may step where a border moved.

Catanduanes had the fewest people of the 6 provinces of Bicol Region in 2024[1]
  1. 1Camarines Sur2,063,314
  2. 2Albay1,379,398
  3. 3Masbate910,813
  4. 4Sorsogon845,066
  5. 5Camarines Norte604,666
  6. 6Catanduanes261,169
All 6 provinces of Bicol Region
Of every 100 people in Catanduanes in 2024[1]

Corrected by Scene from the PSA's men and women counts. The PSA's age table prints a both-sexes count for 80 - 84 (4,274 printed against 2,441 men and women) and 85 and over (3,741 printed against 1,833 men and women) that is not the sum of its men and women, although its men and women columns add up exactly to the Catanduanes totals. Scene shows the sum of the two for these groups and keeps the printed values.[5]

Age structure · 2024 Census[5]People living in households, by age and sex
  • About 30 of every 100 are children under 15 (29.9%)
  • About 62 of every 100 are of working age, 15 to 64 (62.2%)
  • About 8 of every 100 are 65 or older (7.9%)
MenWomen

The figures by age

People by age group, men and women
AgePeopleMenWomen
Under 520,29010,4849,806
5 - 927,67614,29313,383
10 - 1430,01115,66114,350
15 - 1927,42714,19613,231
20 - 2422,73811,66711,071
25 - 2917,8379,0228,815
30 - 3417,4928,9168,576
35 - 3915,4907,9757,515
40 - 4414,3187,4556,863
45 - 4913,1116,7076,404
50 - 5412,3226,3555,967
55 - 5911,5065,8615,645
60 - 649,8464,9504,896
65 - 697,3553,5323,823
70 - 745,3932,3523,041
75 - 793,6141,3592,255
80 - 842,441Corrected by Scene · the PSA prints 4,2748281,613
85 and over1,833Corrected by Scene · the PSA prints 3,7414671,366

Every figure, census by census

People, 2024 CensusCensusA count of every person in the country, all on one day. The 2024 census counted people as they were on 1 July 2024.More in the glossary
261,169[1, 2]
Households, 2024HouseholdA person living alone, or people who sleep in the same home and share their meals. A family may be one household or several.More in the glossary
62,544[1, 2]
People in each household, 2024
4.2 on average[1, 2]
Share of Bicol Region, 2024Rank and shareWorked out by Scene from the PSA's counts: where a place stands among the places listed with it, and how many of every 100 of its parent's people live in it.More in the glossary
4.31%[1]
In urban barangays, 2024Urban barangayThe PSA counts a barangay as urban when it has 5,000 people or more, or a big employer, or several businesses and public services close by. Every barangay in Metro Manila is urban.More in the glossary
10% (26,210 people)[6]
Men and women, 2024
132,080 men, 128,620 women[5]People living in households
Population at each census, with its source
CensusPopulationGrowth since the census beforeHouseholdsPeople per household
2024as of July 1, 2024261,169[1, 2]−0.96% a year62,5444.2
2020as of May 1, 2020271,879[1]0.87% a year——
2015as of August 1, 2015260,964[1]1.11% a year——
2010as of May 1, 2010246,300[1]———
2007as of August 1, 2007; as it was then232,757[34]1.08% a year——
2000as of May 1, 2000; on today’s borders215,356[34, 35]1.33% a year——
1995as of September 1, 1995; as it was then202,464[34]1.50% a year——
1990as of May 1, 1990; as it was then187,000[34]0.65% a year——
1980as of May 1, 1980; as it was then175,247[34]0.28% a year——
1975as of May 1, 1975; as it was then172,780[34]1.26% a year——
1970as of May 6, 1970; as it was then162,302[34]0.37% a year——
1960as of February 15, 1960; as it was then156,329[34]———

Cities and municipalities

Catanduanes is made up of 11 municipalities, with 315 barangays in all.
Colour byColours the map of Catanduanes by the figure chosen; the key beside it says what each colour means.
Bagamanoc: 10,403 people, 111 per km², −1.51% a yearBaras: 12,992 people, 149 per km², −0.89% a yearBato: 21,325 people, 443 per km², −0.47% a yearCaramoran: 30,124 people, 115 per km², −1.52% a yearGigmoto: 8,348 people, 70 per km², −1.02% a yearPandan: 20,796 people, 187 per km², −0.77% a yearPanganiban: 8,947 people, 108 per km², −1.95% a yearSan Andres: 37,157 people, 219 per km², −0.84% a yearSan Miguel: 14,578 people, 91 per km², −1.73% a yearViga: 21,364 people, 136 per km², −1.62% a yearVirac: 75,135 people, 425 per km², −0.44% a year

People · 2024 Census

  • Under 20,000
  • 20,000 to 31,000
  • 31,000 to 45,000
  • 45,000 to 76,000
  • 76,000 and over

The same steps colour every map of cities and municipalities in the Atlas, so a colour means the same range everywhere.

Density · people per km², 2024

  • Under 140
  • 140 to 250
  • 250 to 390
  • 390 to 750
  • 750 and over

The same steps colour every map of cities and municipalities in the Atlas, so a colour means the same range everywhere.

Growth a year · 2020–2024

  • Fell by more than 1% a year
  • Fell, by up to 1% a year
  • Grew, by under 1% a year
  • Grew by 1 to 2% a year
  • Grew by 2% a year or more

Each place's yearly change between the 2020 and 2024 censuses, on the same steps as every map in the Atlas.

Borders from UN OCHA (PSA and NAMRIA), a guide and not the legal boundary[3]Open in OpenStreetMap
Cities and municipalities of Catanduanes. Each column heading sorts the table.
[1, 7]Share (2024)
Bagamanoc10,4033.98%−1.51% a year93.58 km²
Baras12,9924.97%−0.89% a year87.20 km²
Bato21,3258.17%−0.47% a year48.17 km²
Caramoran30,12411.53%−1.52% a year262.30 km²
Gigmoto8,3483.2%−1.02% a year118.80 km²
Pandan20,7967.96%−0.77% a year111.17 km²
Panganiban8,9473.43%−1.95% a year82.81 km²
San Andres37,15714.23%−0.84% a year169.98 km²
San Miguel14,5785.58%−1.73% a year159.56 km²
Viga21,3648.18%−1.62% a year156.54 km²
Virac75,13528.77%−0.44% a year176.80 km²

Land & Environment

Catanduanes covers 1,466.91 km² of land, 178 people for every km² in 2024. Its land rises to 829 m above the sea and it has 405.7 km of coast.
Land areaLand areaThe land inside the place's official boundary. A square kilometre is a square 1 km on each side, about the size of 140 football fields.More in the glossary
1,466.91 km²[7]As listed in the 2019 Masterlist of Land Areas (LMB, DENR)
Average density, 2024Population densityHow crowded a place is on average: its people divided by its land area. 1,000 people per square kilometre is 10 people per hectare, a square of 100 by 100 metres.More in the glossary
178 people per km²[7]
Coordinates
13.74757° N, 124.25747° E[3]The point inside its border farthest from every edge, so it always falls within the place.
Height above the sea[30]
Lowest
Sea level
Average
217 m
Highest
829 m

Heights from the Copernicus DEM, a 30 m model of the surface: it reads the tops of trees and roofs, not the bare ground, over the land inside the border, the sea left out. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.

Water, coast and peaks

405.7 km of coastline[31]

Rivers[31]

  1. Pajo River38.4 of 38.6 km
  2. Bato River27.4 of 27.5 km
  3. Bocan River6.9 km
  4. Bordang River6.7 km
  5. Bagnon River6.3 of 6.4 km
  6. M. Alberto River3.9 km
  7. Macutal River3.4 km
  8. Oco River2.3 km

The longest inside it: 11 in all.

Peaks[31]

  1. Mount Tambao700 m
  2. Conical Peakheight not mapped
  3. Mount Baboyheight not mapped
  4. Mount Cantilamoheight not mapped
  5. Round Peakheight not mapped
  6. Sharp Peakheight not mapped

Named rivers, lakes and peaks as OpenStreetMap mapped them on 30 September 2026, and the coast within 150 m of the border. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License.

Climate

Climate typeClimate typePAGASA sorts the country's climate into four types by when the rain falls. Type I has a dry season from November to April and a wet one for the rest of the year; Type II has no dry season, with the most rain from December to February; Type III has a short dry season; Type IV has rain spread through the year.More in the glossary

Type II[32]

No dry season. The rain is heaviest from December to February, and no month is truly dry.

Read by Scene off PAGASA's climate map, so approximate: the type that covers most of the place's land.

At Virac, the nearest PAGASA station, 19 km away[33]Averages for 1991 to 2020: 3,188 mm of rain on 180 days a year; 27.3 °C on average

Rain each month Average temperature

The figures by month

Climate at Virac, 1991 to 2020, by month
MonthRainRainy daysAverageHighLow
January274 mm1525.7 °C29.0 °C22.4 °C
February172 mm1225.9 °C29.4 °C22.4 °C
March177 mm1326.4 °C30.2 °C22.7 °C
April141 mm1227.3 °C31.2 °C23.3 °C
May166 mm1128.2 °C32.1 °C24.4 °C
June220 mm1428.4 °C32.1 °C24.7 °C
July248 mm1628.0 °C31.6 °C24.4 °C
August186 mm1228.2 °C32.0 °C24.5 °C
September264 mm1428.1 °C31.9 °C24.2 °C
October399 mm1927.4 °C31.0 °C23.9 °C
November418 mm2127.1 °C30.4 °C23.7 °C
December525 mm2126.4 °C29.6 °C23.3 °C
The year3,188 mm18027.3 °C30.9 °C23.7 °C

A station's figures describe the place around it only roughly: inland and in the hills it may be cooler and wetter. The station stands 32 m above the sea.

Life & Economy

Catanduanes's economy made ₱38.9 billion of goods and services in 2025, ₱138,548 for each person. About 31 of every 100 people lived below the poverty line in 2023.
Economy, 2025Gross domestic productThe value of all the goods and services made in a place in a year: the size of its economy. The PSA measures it for every region, province and highly urbanized city. Counted at 2018 prices, it leaves out the rise in prices, so one year can be set beside another.More in the glossary
₱38.9 billion[17]Its gross domestic product at current prices; ₱32.8 billion at 2018 prices.
Growth, 2024–2025
0.3%[18]How much more it made than the year before, at 2018 prices.
For each person, 2025
₱138,548[19]Its economy divided by its projected population, at current prices, as the PSA works it out.
Poverty, 2023Poverty incidenceHow many of every 100 people live in families whose income is below the poverty line: what a person needs in a year for food and other basic needs, as the PSA sets it for each province. It is an estimate, from a survey or, for a town, a statistical model, so the PSA gives a range it is likely to fall in.More in the glossary
30.6% of people[20]Below the poverty line, by the PSA's survey.
Income classIncome classThe Department of Finance sorts provinces, cities and municipalities into classes by their average yearly income over recent years: 1st class has the most. It measures the local government's income, not how well off its people are.More in the glossary
2nd class[4]
About 31 of every 100 people in Catanduanes lived below the poverty line in 2023 (30.6%)[20]

The PSA's survey puts it between 26.1% and 35.2%, with 95% confidence. The poverty line was ₱31,832 a person for the year.

Public places

  • 69government offices
  • 26hospitals and health centres
  • 265schools
  • 49places of worship
  • 3markets
  • 7stations and terminals
  • 8parks
  • 4beaches
  • 1monument or memorial

Counted from OpenStreetMap[3, 8]. Each town's page lists its own; this page lists the stations, parks, beaches and monuments.

As OpenStreetMap maps them on September 30, 2026. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License.

Government & Leaders

A governor leads Catanduanes. Its local laws, called ordinances, are passed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (the provincial board), led by the vice governor. The governor, the vice governor and the board's elected members serve three-year terms, and none may serve more than three in a row.[14, 15]

Capital
Virac[4]
Legislative districtLegislative districtThe area that elects one member of the House of Representatives. A big province or city may have several.More in the glossary
Lone district of Catanduanes[16]

Leaders

The governor and vice governor elected at each election since 2001, as COMELEC's lists of the elected name them, and those in office now, as the DILG's directory lists them.

  1. 2025–2028In office as of February 2026

    Governor
    Patrick Alain Tejero Azanza[21]
    Vice governor
    Not named in the DILG's directory

  2. 2022–2025

    Governor
    Joseph Chua Cua[22]
    Vice governor
    Peter Chua Cua[22]

  3. 2019–2022

    Governor
    Joseph Chua Cua[23]
    Vice governor
    Shirley Araojo Abundo[23]

  4. 2016–2019

    Governor
    Joseph Chua Cua[24]
    Vice governor
    Shirley Araojo Abundo[24]

  5. 2013–2016

    Governor
    Araceli Bernardino Wong[25]
    Vice governor
    Jose Joson Teves Jr.[25]

  6. 2010–2013

    Governor
    Joseph Chua Cua[26]
    Vice governor
    Jose Joson Teves Jr.[26]

  7. 2007–2010

    Governor
    Joseph Chua Cua[27]
    Vice governor
    Alfred Morales Aquino[27]

  8. 2004–2007

    Governor
    Leandro Buenconsejo Verceles Jr.[28]
    Vice governor
    Vincent Vicente Villaluna[28]

  9. 2001–2004

    Governor
    Leandro B. Verceles Jr.[29]
    Vice governor
    Cesar V. Sarmiento[29]
Governors and vice governors of Catanduanes, by term
TermGovernorVice governor
2025–2028In office as of February 2026Patrick Alain Tejero Azanza[21]Not named in the DILG's directory
2022–2025Joseph Chua Cua[22]Peter Chua Cua[22]
2019–2022Joseph Chua Cua[23]Shirley Araojo Abundo[23]
2016–2019Joseph Chua Cua[24]Shirley Araojo Abundo[24]
2013–2016Araceli Bernardino Wong[25]Jose Joson Teves Jr.[25]
2010–2013Joseph Chua Cua[26]Jose Joson Teves Jr.[26]
2007–2010Joseph Chua Cua[27]Alfred Morales Aquino[27]
2004–2007Leandro Buenconsejo Verceles Jr.[28]Vincent Vicente Villaluna[28]
2001–2004Leandro B. Verceles Jr.[29]Cesar V. Sarmiento[29]

History & Identity

Old photographs of Catanduanes

Each with the archive that holds it, its date and its rights, on its own page.

In the Archive

Catanduanes's fiesta and days

Everything listed for Catanduanes in Now

Created
Made a province of its own by Commonwealth Act No. 687, approved 26 September 1945, which separated it from Albay on the thirtieth day after its approval[9]

How it got its name

Local traditionThe province gives several legends. In one the name comes from tandu, a click beetle once common on the island, so that it was Katanduan, the place of tandu; in another from the samdong tree, so that it was Kasamdongan. Either way, the story goes, the Spaniards' way of saying it turned it into Catanduanes.[10]

Local traditionSome historians, the province adds, read katandungan as a Malay word for a place of refuge in time of danger, since the island has long sheltered sailors in stormy weather.[10]

Local traditionBy the province's account its first Spanish name was Isla de Cobos, after the cobo, the thatched huts its people lived in.[10]

Its story

Juan de Salcedo's men landed early in 1573 while chasing pirates along the coast of southern Luzon. On 23 April 1576 the galleon Espiritu Santo, bound from Acapulco to Manila, was wrecked off Batalay, in Bato; among the survivors were Fray Diego de Herrera and a few Augustinian missionaries, and over Fray Herrera's grave the island's first Christian cross was raised.[10]

Spain built its towns around parishes: Caramoran in 1601, Pandan in 1650, Viga in 1661, Panganiban in 1663, Virac in 1775, Bato in 1830 and San Andres in 1853. The church records that told the island's early history were later lost to Moro raids.[10]

The Philippine Commission joined the island to the Province of Albay in 1901 and made it the sub-province of Catanduanes in 1905.[11, 12]

Japanese forces took the island in December 1941. Its resistance began its offensive on 8 February 1945, and two weeks later the island was free.[10]

Commonwealth Act No. 687, filed as a bill by Representative Francisco Perfecto, made Catanduanes a province of its own from 26 October 1945, with Virac as its capital; Remigio Socito, its last lieutenant governor, became its first governor. The province keeps 26 October as its founding anniversary.[9, 10, 13]

Timeline

  1. 1573

    Juan de Salcedo's men land on the island.[10]

  2. 23 April 1576

    The galleon Espiritu Santo is wrecked off Bato.[10]

  3. 16 July 1901

    Act No. 169 annexes Catanduanes to the Province of Albay.[11]

  4. 19 April 1905

    Act No. 1331 makes it the sub-province of Catanduanes.[12]

  5. 8 February 1945

    The island's resistance begins the offensive that frees it within two weeks.[10]

  6. 26 September 1945

    Commonwealth Act No. 687 is approved.[9]

  7. 26 October 1945

    Catanduanes becomes a province, separate from Albay.[9, 10]

Nearby

Catanduanes shares no land border with another province. Nearest across the water are Camarines Sur, Albay, Sorsogon and Northern Samar.

How it compares

Catanduanes beside Bicol Region, and where it stands among the provinces of Bicol Region.

Catanduanes beside Bicol Region
FigureCatanduanesBicol RegionRank among the provinces of Bicol Region
People, 2024CensusA count of every person in the country, all on one day. The 2024 census counted people as they were on 1 July 2024.More in the glossary261,169[1, 2]6,064,4266th of 6
Growth a year, 2020–2024Growth a yearHow fast the number of people changed each year between two censuses. 1% a year means about 1 more person for every 100 people, each year.More in the glossary−0.96% a year[1, 2]slower−0.07% a year5th of 6
People per km², 2024Population densityHow crowded a place is on average: its people divided by its land area. 1,000 people per square kilometre is 10 people per hectare, a square of 100 by 100 metres.More in the glossary178[7]less crowded3376th of 6
Land areaLand areaThe land inside the place's official boundary. A square kilometre is a square 1 km on each side, about the size of 140 football fields.More in the glossary1,466.91 km²[7]18,007.22 km²6th of 6
People in each household, 2024HouseholdA person living alone, or people who sleep in the same home and share their meals. A family may be one household or several.More in the glossary4.2[1, 2]higher4.1not ranked
In urban barangays, 2024Urban barangayThe PSA counts a barangay as urban when it has 5,000 people or more, or a big employer, or several businesses and public services close by. Every barangay in Metro Manila is urban.More in the glossary10%[6]lower24.5%not ranked

The nearest provinces across the water[3]

  1. Camarines SurBicol Region5.8 km west
  2. AlbayBicol Region29.7 km southwest
  3. SorsogonBicol Region49.3 km south
  4. Northern SamarEastern Visayas92.1 km southeast

Measured between the two borders where they come closest, on the Earth's surface, across the water. Not a boat or ferry route.

Sources

Page updated October 9, 2026. Sources checked by Scene October 8, 2026.
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  22. 22.Commission on Elections (COMELEC), Records and Statistics Division, ERSD. List of Elected Provincial Candidates, May 9, 2022 National and Local Elections. Published December 23, 2025. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. Public domain: comelec.gov.ph says "All content is in the public domain unless otherwise stated." Each list carries COMELEC's data privacy notice (RA 10173).. Open the source
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