Carmen is a 5th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 9,551 people in 1,873 households. 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. ... Surigao del Sur is a province of the Philippines located in the Caraga region in Mindanao. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Carmen is politically subdivided into 8 barangays. these are the barangays: A barangay (Filipino: baranggay) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
It is bounded on the northwest by Surigaodel Norte, on the southeast by Davao Oriental, on the east by the Pacific Ocean and on the west and southwest by the provinces of Agusan delSur and Agusan del Norte.
Sur was created as the 56th Philippine province on June 29, 1960 by virtue of R. No. 2786 and was formally separated from its mother province, Surigaodel Norte, on September 18, 1960.
Surigao became the eastern District, comprising Agusan and all the islands between the towns of Butuan and Caraga in 1869.
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