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Poverty incidence of Southern Leyte 10 20 30 40 50 2006 33.72 2009 43.07 2012 43.28 2015 40.94 2018 23.70 2021 16.00 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Farming Coconut Most of the people in Southern Leyte go into coconut planting, a widely distributed industry, especially in mountainous and even plain regions. The GIZ of the German Development Cooperation has embarked on a value chain ...
Southern Leyte first elected a single representative provincewide at-large representative for the 5th Congress of the Third Philippine Republic following its creation as a regular province separate from Leyte under Republic Act No. 2227 on May 22, 1959. [2] Before 1959, its territory was represented as part of Leyte's at-large, 2nd and 3rd ...
Southern Leyte began to elect a separate representative under its own name starting in the 1961 elections. Southern Leyte was represented in the Interim Batasang Pambansa as part of Region VIII from 1978 to 1984. The province returned one representative, elected at-large, to the Regular Batasang Pambansa in 1984.
In 1944, in the greatest naval battle in history the blocking warship of the Liberation waylaid the Japanese Fleet near Hinunangan. Thus, the area in Southern Leyte is the natural frontier of historically significant events in Philippine history.
Poverty incidence of Saint Bernard 10 20 30 40 50 2006 34.00 2009 42.73 2012 39.49 2015 40.24 2018 25.48 2021 29.18 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Saint Bernard's economy are based in agriculture and marine culture. The municipality is considered among the fastest growing economy in the pacific area of Southern Leyte. Saint Bernard is a peninsula and therefore it is almost entirely ...
Leyte (also Northern Leyte; Waray: Norte san/Amihanan nga Leyte/Probinsya han Leyte; Cebuano: Amihanang Leyte; Tagalog: Hilagang Leyte), officially the Province of Leyte, is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region occupying the northern three-quarters of Leyte Island (with the remaining portion being the province of Southern Leyte).
Pages in category "History of Southern Leyte" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Territorially, Southern Leyte includes the island of Panaon to its south. To the north of Leyte is the island province of Biliran, a former sub-province of Leyte. The major cities of Leyte are Tacloban, on the eastern shore at the northwest corner of Leyte Gulf, and Ormoc, on the west coast. Leyte today is notable for the geothermal electric ...