Tandag is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Surigao del Sur. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 44,327 people in 8,449 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_surigao_del_sur_tandag. ... 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
Tandag is politically subdivided into 21 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
1. Bag-ong Lungsod (Poblacion) 2. Bungtod (poblacion) 3. Dagocduc (Poblacion) 4. Telaje (Poblacion) 5. Mabua (Poblacion) 6. Rosario 7. San Agustine sur (Dawis) 8. San Agustine Norte 9. Bioto
10. Awasian 11. Quezon (Sotel) 12. Buenavista 13. Pangi 14. Salvacion 15. San Isidro 16. San Jose 17. San Antonio 18. Mabuhay 19. Maticdum 20. 21.
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.