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San Emilio

San Emilio is a municipality in Ilocos Sur, Philippines.

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Overview

San Emilio, officially the Municipality of San Emilio, is a local government municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur in the Philippines. The municipality is also known in Ilocano as Ili ti San Emilio and in Filipino as Bayan ng San Emilio. It is part of Ilocos Sur's second congressional district and is administered through the Philippine local-government system, with an elected mayor serving as local chief executive and an elected municipal council responsible for legislative functions. San Emilio is located approximately 72.32 kilometres from Vigan, the provincial capital, and approximately 366.52 kilometres from Manila. Its territory is divided into eight barangays, the basic local administrative units in the Philippines; barangays may in turn contain puroks and sitios. The municipality's public and private education systems fall under the Banayoyo-Lidlidda-San Emilio Schools District Office, whose jurisdiction also covers the neighbouring municipalities of Banayoyo and Lidlidda. According to the 2024 Philippine census, San Emilio had a population of 7,513 people and a population density of approximately 53 inhabitants per square kilometre. Its local economy and public administration are documented through Philippine government statistical and governance systems, including poverty-incidence reporting by the Philippine Statistics Authority and local-governance performance monitoring. The municipality has elementary and secondary educational institutions, including San Emilio East Central School, San Emilio West Central School, San Emilio National High School, and San Emilio Academy, alongside schools serving individual barangays. San Emilio is not a commercial consumer brand or product company. It is a geographic and civic entity whose public identity is associated with municipal administration, local communities, education, infrastructure, and services. The supplied Wikipedia subject is therefore treated as the municipality rather than being mapped to another organization or namesake.

History

San Emilio is a municipality in Ilocos Sur, a province in the northern Philippines. The supplied reference material identifies the locality through its official municipal designation and its parallel Ilocano and Filipino names, but does not provide a verified founding date, incorporation history, or account of an earlier settlement name. Those historical details are therefore not asserted here. The municipality operates within the Philippine system of local government. It belongs to the province's second congressional district and is governed by an elected mayor, vice mayor, and municipal council. Local elections are held on a three-year cycle, consistent with the local-government framework described in the reference material. The council provides the municipal legislative function while the mayor serves as the local chief executive. Administratively, San Emilio is divided into eight barangays. These barangays form the immediate civic and community units of the municipality and may themselves be organized into puroks and sitios. The reference material does not identify individual barangay creation dates or describe changes to the municipal boundary, so no such chronology is included. Education is coordinated through the Banayoyo-Lidlidda-San Emilio Schools District Office. This district-level arrangement covers San Emilio as well as the municipalities of Banayoyo and Lidlidda. Schools listed for San Emilio include Cangao Primary School, Lancuas Elementary School, Lidaoan Elementary School, Masiosioay Elementary School, Matibuey Elementary School, Paltoc Elementary School, Mangmangga Elementary School, San Emilio East Central School, San Emilio West Central School, Sibsibbu Elementary School, Kalumsing Integrated School, San Emilio National High School, and San Emilio Academy. These institutions indicate the municipality's role as a service and education center for its local population, although the available material does not provide their opening dates or institutional histories. Geographically, San Emilio is situated about 72.32 kilometres from Vigan and about 366.52 kilometres from Manila. Its demographic profile, as reported in the 2024 census, was 7,513 residents with a density of roughly 53 people per square kilometre. Economic information in the reference material is limited to the existence of Philippine Statistics Authority reporting on poverty incidence; it does not provide a complete industry profile, revenue history, or detailed account of economic sectors. San Emilio's contemporary identity is consequently best understood as that of a small Philippine municipality whose principal institutional functions are local governance, education, and community administration.

  • 2024

    2024 population census

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    The 2024 census recorded 7,513 residents in San Emilio, with an estimated population density of 53 inhabitants per square kilometre.

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A rural Philippine municipality and local-government jurisdiction in Ilocos Sur, focused on civic administration, community services, education, and local development.

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