San Isidro, Davao Oriental
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Philippines
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. It has a land area of 205 km². According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 31,705 people in 6,117 households.
San Isidro is one the "gulf towns" of Davao Oriental whose shorelines stretch along Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf
Davao Gulf is a gulf found in Mindanao in the Philippines. It has an area of 308,000 hectares. Davao Gulf cuts into the island of Mindanao from Celebes Sea. It is surrounded by all four provinces in the Davao Region. The largest island in the gulf is Samal Island. Davao City, on the gulf's west...
. Other gulf towns are Banaybanay
Banaybanay, Davao Oriental
Banaybanay is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 33,714 people in 6,448 households.-Barangays:Banaybanay is politically subdivided into 14 barangays.* Cabangcalan...
, Lupon
Lupon, Davao Oriental
Lupon is a 1st class municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 57,092 people in 10,812 households....
and Governor Generoso
Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental
Governor Generoso is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 46,745 people in 8,297 households.-Barangays:Generoso is politically subdivided into 20 barangays.* Anitap...
.
Around 30% of the population belong to the indigenous Mandaya and Kalagan communities.
Economy
San Isidro is largely planted with coconutCoconut
The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae . It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which is not a botanical nut. The spelling cocoanut is an old-fashioned form of the word...
, with much of its agricultural industry focuses on the production of copra
Copra
Copra is the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut. Coconut oil extracted from it has made copra an important agricultural commodity for many coconut-producing countries. It also yields coconut cake which is mainly used as feed for livestock.-Production:...
. There are currently efforts to further diversify the output of the municipality's coconut-based industry from copra to other value-added coconut products such as coco-oil (which can be used as a fuel additive) and coco-coir. In 1992, a Crop Diversification
Agricultural diversification
In the agricultural context, diversification can be regarded as the re-allocation of some of a farm's productive resources, such as land, capital, farm equipment and paid labour, into new activities...
Program of the local government unit (LGU) was implemented with mango
Mango
The mango is a fleshy stone fruit belonging to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is native to India from where it spread all over the world. It is also the most cultivated fruit of the tropical world. While...
as "export winner". In 1998, the town commenced its first Mango Festival as an indicator of the prominence of this high yielding fruit. Farmers are also engaged in growing the popular banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
(cardava). Despite this, farmers still experience difficulties in increasing their income due to lack of agricultural technology specially those farming in the upland areas.
The aggressive anti-illegal fishing
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....
efforts of the LGU decreased dynamite fishing and able to establish fish sanctuaries in San Isidro waters. Most of the fishermen in this town used paddle-boat than motorized boat in fishing.
Barangays
San Isidro is politically subdivided into 16 barangayBarangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
s. Seven barangays are along the coastlines while the other nine are in the upland areas.
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History
The town of San Isidro was created by virtue of Republic ActRepublic Acts of the Philippines
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No. 4744 enacted by the Philippine Congress on June 18, 1966. It started operating as a local government unit on January 1968. Its founder and the first mayor was Vicente Yu, Sr.
Tourism
The municipality's seascape offers potential marine-based recreational industries, as its marine reserves can provide world-class and magnificent underwater adventures on the virtually undisturbed Tinaytay and Burias reefReef
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s a few kilometers offshore. In addition, its scenic nature spots include beaches untouched by urban development; the cascading Cawa-cawa Stepped Falls, and the 12 km² Pygmy or Bonsai forests in the thickly forested highlands of the municipality.