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Piñan, officially the Municipality of Piñan (Cebuano: Lungsod sa Piñan; Subanen: Benwa Piñan; Chavacano: Municipalidad de Piñan; Tagalog: Bayan ng Piñan), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 20,221 people. [3]

Piñan
Municipality
Municipality of Piñan
Seal
Nicknames:  Pineapple Capital of Zamboanga Peninsula Inland Resort Capital of Zamboanga del Norte
Map of Zamboanga del Norte with Piñan highlighted
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Piñan Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 8°28′56″N 123°27′00″E
Country	Philippines
Region	Zamboanga Peninsula
Province	Zamboanga del Norte
District	1st district
Founded	August 22, 1951
Barangays	22 (see Barangays)
Government  [1]
• Type	Sangguniang Bayan
• Mayor	Cecilia J. Carreon
• Vice Mayor	Rommel I. Gudmalin
• Representative	Romeo M. Jalosjos Jr.
• Municipal Council	Members Glecerio Y. Redillas Jr. Benedicto C. Cainta II Gina R. Aleta Al Immanuel U. Cantila Ricardo R. Sabandal Celso M. Montemayor Jose Antonio L. Galan Greg C. Belangoy
• Electorate	16,271 voters (2022)
Area [2]
• Total	93.75 km2 (36.20 sq mi)
Elevation	68 m (223 ft)
Highest elevation	274 m (899 ft)
Lowest elevation	12 m (39 ft)
Population  (2020 census) [3]
• Total	20,221
• Density	220/km2 (560/sq mi)
• Households	4,965
Economy
• Income class	4th municipal income class
• Poverty incidence	46.49% (2018)[4]
• Revenue	₱112,538,000.00 (2020)
• Assets	₱321,768,000.00 (2020)
• Expenditure	₱124,384,000.00 (2020)
• Liabilities	₱45,224,000.00 (2020)
Service provider
• Electricity	Zamboanga del Norte Electric Cooperative (ZANECO)
Time zone	UTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code	7105
PSGC	097209000
IDD : area code	+63 (0)65
Native languages	Subanon Cebuano Chavacano Tagalog
Website	www.pinan.gov.ph

It is also known as New Piñan.[5]

Etymology

Piñan came from a Subano term “pinyayan” which means “tabuan” or a trading place. Before it was established as a formal settlement, this place has been a trading point between natives area and ambulant peddlers. Hence, sometime in 1903, Captain Finley, a military governor in Zamboanga established a “tabuan” in what is now known as Barangay Del Pilar. The “tabuan” became what is known to be Piñan and when the municipality was created, it was called New Piñan to vary it from Piñan.

History

From the time of its foundation, The name of the municipality of New Piñan was later changed to Piñan under Republic Act No. 2846 on June 19, 1960.

The inhabitants of Piñan were engaged in farming, they cultivated their field by using “kaingin” system in which the land was cleared by setting fire to the woody plant and bushes, after which, holes were bored in the ground with a pointed sticks and the seeds were then planted there. They also used wooded plows and harrows drawn by Carabao's . Then, finally, Piñan became the source of farm production using their famous horses or cattle driven caretela, until most of the time, people from neighboring municipalities go to Piñan to purchase agricultural products, in which then, they established a so-called “tabuan”.

Other version states that Piñan got its name from the native word “piña”, a pineapple fruit that grows abundantly in this locality before its creation. Vast tracts of pineapple plantations can be seen all over the area. Because of abundance of Piña fruits, natives called the place Piñan.

Piñan acquired its juridical personality on August 22, 1951, by virtue of Executive Order No. 467 by President of the Philippines Elpedio Quirino, and an act creating the municipality of Piñan, from the municipality of Dipolog.

Piñan became a municipality on December 8, 1951, at 2:35 p.m. and was inaugurated through the painstaking effort of Serapio J. Datoc, who was at the time, the Governor of the province of Zamboanga (with the north portion now the province of Zamboanga del Norte), and declared as an independent municipality separate from its mother municipality of Dipolog (now city of Dipolog.)[6]

Geography

Barangays

Piñan is politically subdivided into 22 barangays.

Climate

Demographics

Population census of Piñan

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1960	24,699	—
1970	12,335	−6.70%
1975	13,121	+1.25%
1980	14,373	+1.84%
1990	15,419	+0.71%
1995	19,447	+4.44%
2000	17,950	−1.70%
2007	18,669	+0.54%
2010	20,088	+2.70%
2015	20,161	+0.07%
2020	20,221	+0.06%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [8] [9] [10][11]

Economy

References

External links

• Piñan Profile at PhilAtlas.com
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• Philippine Census Information

На других языках

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[de] Piñan

Piñan (New Piñan) ist eine philippinische Stadtgemeinde in der Provinz Zamboanga del Norte. Sie hat 20.161 Einwohner (Zensus 1. August 2015).

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- [en] Piñan

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