San Vicente, Northern Samar
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San Vicente is a 6th class municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines
. It is an island-municipality composed of seven islands - Sila, Tarnate, Sangputan, Panganoron, Maragat, Mahaba and Destacado where the town proper is located. Destacado island is in the southernmost part of the group of islands comprising the municipality.
Locals speak Cebuano
language and part Waray-Waray. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 5,831 people in 1,261 households.
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Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. It is an island-municipality composed of seven islands - Sila, Tarnate, Sangputan, Panganoron, Maragat, Mahaba and Destacado where the town proper is located. Destacado island is in the southernmost part of the group of islands comprising the municipality.
Locals speak Cebuano
Cebuano language
Cebuano, referred to by most of its speakers as Bisaya , is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people mostly in the Central Visayas. It is the most widely spoken of the languages within the so-named Bisayan subgroup and is closely related to other Filipino...
language and part Waray-Waray. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 5,831 people in 1,261 households.
Barangays
San Vicente is politically subdivided into 7 barangayBarangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
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- Destacado Pob. (Bgy.2)
- Maragat
- Mongol Bongol Pob. (Bgy.1)
- Punta Pob. (Bgy.3)
- Sangputan
- Sila
- Tarnate