Gandara is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 28,866 people in 5,588 households. A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Samar, formerly Western Samar, is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Gandara is politically subdivided into 69 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
To the north, it is bounded by the province of Northern Samar; on the east by the province of Eastern Samar; to the west by the Samar Sea and to the south by the Leyte Gulf.
Numerous streams in the island have cut sharp valleys on the surface of this plateau and the overall landscape is hilly and rugged.
Samar is connected with the province of Leyte thru Marcos Bridge on the southwest across the San Juanico strait.
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