Angat is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 46,033 people in 9,483 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_bulacan_angat. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Bulacan is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Angat is politically subdivided into 16 barangays (6 urban, 10 rural). A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
Angat gives the following services: 1) 97 percent of Metro Manila homes relies on the dam for safe drinking water; 2) its hydrothermal plant is a major source of electricity for Luzon, and 3) it supplies irrigation water to more than 1,200 hectares of farmlands in Bulacan and Pampanga.
Illegal logging within the vicinity of Angats watershed cannot be stopped and has not emboldened the authorities either to use all reasonable force in law enforcement to stop it.
Angat Dam is a typical case study for all irrigation projects all over RP for which the government has wasted billions of borrowed funds.
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