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Overview of the Region
Camarines Sur is politically subdivided into four congressional districts, one chartered city, one component city, 35 municipalities and 1,063 barangays. The province has a land area of 5,481.6 square kilometers, roughly 30 percent of Bicol Region’s land area and 1.83 percent of the Philippines. The population of the province as
of May 2000 census was 1,551,549 accounting for almost 33 percent of the regional
population. The province's population grew at an average annual rate of 1.72
percent between 1995 and 2000. Its population density is 283.0 persons per square kilometer of land area. |
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Naga City is the province’s
and the region’s financial, trade, religious and educational center. Hundreds of
thousands of devotees and guests flock to the city on the third week of September for its
Peñafrancia Festivities. |
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As of January 2006 ____________
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 Bicol Provinces > Albay
| Camarines Norte | Camarines Sur |
Catanduanes
| Masbate | Sorsogon |
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Camarines Sur lies across the
middle of the Bicol Peninsula at the southeastern portion of Luzon. It is bounded on the
north by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Maqueda Channel, on the south by the Province
of Albay, on the west by the Ragay Gulf and on the northwest by the Provinces of Camarines
Norte and Quezon.
The province’s most
dominant geographic features are its two mountains; Mount Isarog which straddles the
province right off-center beside Naga City and the capital town of Pili, rising 1,176
meters above sea level; and Mount Asog at the south rising 1,196 meters above sea level.
To the west is the Tankong Baka mountain range, forming the southern tip of the Sierra
Madre mountain system. The Bicol River traverses the heart of Camarines Sur meandering for
about 100 kilometers from Lake Bato to San Miguel Bay. Lake Buhi at the foot of Mount Asog
is home to the country’s smallest commercial fish, tabios or sinarapan (Mistichis
Luzonensis).
The province’s economy is agricultural with close to 62 percent of
its total land area devoted to crop production. Camarines Sur contributes almost 50
percent of the region’s cereal output. Coconut is planted to about 18 percent of the
province’s land area. Rootcrop is also one of its agricultural products. The province
is flanked by some the richest marine fishing grounds in the country making fishery one of
its major economic activities. Camarines Sur sits on vast tracts of metallic and
non-metallic mineral deposits. Mineral reserves are estimated at 5.1 million metric tons,
82 percent percent of which are gold ore deposits. Non-metallic mineral reserves is
estimated at 3.5 billion metric tons composed mainly of limestone, sandstone, calcaceous
clastics, marble and ball clay.