La Trinidad is a 1st class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Benguet. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 67,963 people in 13,658 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. ... Benguet is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Geography and climate

La Trinidad is located 3 km north of Baguio City and is 256 km north of Manila. It is bounded on the north by the municipality of Tublay, on the south by Baguio, and on the west by Sablan and Tuba. Baguio City is a 1st class highly urbanized city in northern Luzon in the Philippines. ... The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines. ... Tublay is a 5th class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. ... Baguio City is a 1st class highly urbanized city in northern Luzon in the Philippines. ... Sablan is a 5th class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. ... Tuba is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. ...

The municipality has a land area of 8273.80 hectares, representing 3.16% of the provincial land area. The terrain is generally mountainous with springs, rivers and creeks. La Trinidad's valley floor elevation is at 1300 meters above sea level. Elevation ranges from 500 to 1700 meters above sea level.

La Trinidad belongs under the Type I climate by the Coronas System of classification with distinct wet and dry seasons. The dry season is from November to April while the wet season occurs during the rest of the year. The climate is cool with temperatures ranging from 11.7 C during the month of December at its coldest and 23.2 C at its warmest during the months of March, April and May. The average daily temperature is 18.55 C. Wind velocity is 1.43. During the rainest month of August, the rainfall average is 850.70 mm.

Barangays

La Trinidad is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. The largest barangays are Wangal (1,116 hectares), Puguis (1,021.82 hectares), and Alno (958.35 hectares). The smallest barangay is Cruz (56.69 hectares). 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

• Province of Benguet - La Trinidad
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information

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