Catarman is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Northern Samar. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 67,671 people in 12,437 households. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 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. ... Northern Samar is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

Catarman is a developing town on the shoulder of Samar Island. The town is in the process of renewing its image as a poor and underdeveloped town in the 1980s. Samar is an island in the Visayas, which is in the central Philippines. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

Education

Catarman is home to the University of Eastern Philippines, which is the biggest university in Region 8 having 3 campuses (UEP Main, Laoang and Catubig) catering to 30,000 students. This is a list of colleges and universities in the Philippines. ... Eastern Visayas Eastern Visayas, one of the regions of the Philippines, is designated as Region VIII. It consists of six provinces, namely, Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar (Western Samar) and Southern Leyte. ...

Catastrophes

The flashfloods hit Catarman because the cold front hits the town. They then experience brown-outs during those catastrophes. In meteorology, a weather front is a boundary between two air masses with differing characteristics (e. ...

Barangays

Catarman is politically subdivided into 55 barangays. A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ...

External links

• Catarman Northern Samar Photos
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information

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