Lasam is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 34,082 people in 6,634 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_cagayan_lasam. ... A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Cagayan is a province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Lasam is politically subdivided into 30 barangays. A barangay (Filipino: baranggay) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
The province is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the east; on the south by Isabela province; on the west by the Cordillera Mountains; and on the north by the Balintang Channel and the Babuyan Group of Islands.
It is bounded on the north east by the municipality of Lallo, Cagayan, on the north west by the municipality of Allacapan, Cagayan and Flora,Apayao, on the east by the Cagayan River, and Gattaran, Cagayan, on the south by Santo Niño, Cagayan and on the south west by the municipality of Rizal, Cagayan.
Lasam are traversed by the mighty Cordillera Mountain ranges on the western side and the turbulent Cagayan River on the eastern part of the municipality.
Lasam is predominantly rural with 82.29 percent or 24,881 of the total population concentrated in the farming area outside the poblacion, while the remaining 5,354 constituting 17.71 percent of the total municipal population reside in the Poblacion.
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