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LGU-SAN AGUSTIN,ROMBLON,PHILIPPINES
22,598Area
95.12 Square Km.
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch(Sangguniang
Local Chief ExecutiveBayan)
Hon Mayor Esteban SF. Madrona ,jr
Presiding OfficerMunicipal administrator-Edgar Mallorca
Hon. Vice Mayor Zaldy G. Marin
Head of Offices:
SB Members:
Municipal Planning & Dev’t. Office-Luis M. Esmilla
Hon. Norman M. Fatalla
Municipal Engineering Office- Engr. Marfel C. Solidum
Hon. Johnny S. Jesalva
Municipal Treasurer Office- Gil L. Gallamoza
Hon. Yolly C. Burguete
Municipal Budget Office-Marife R. Diamante
Hon. Roland E. Abero
Municipal Accountant Office- Luz F. Luistro
Hon. Ruben G. Montesa
Municipal Social Welfare Dev’t. Office- Gemma M.
Hon. Claro A. Madrilejos, Jr.
Murchante
Hon. Jimmy Morada
Municipal Agriculture Office- Ruby M. Murchante
Hon. William Tan Manguerra
Human Resource Management Office(ICO)- Remely M.
Hon. Carlos P. Catajay
Ferry
Hon. Clifford Joshua Mallorca
SB Secretary (ICO)-Juvy M. Duroy

https://www.sanagustinromblon.gov.ph
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See Municipal Profile Attachedesfmadrona@sanagustinromblon.gov.ph
CP No. 0917-5357924

THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN AGUSTIN, ROMBLON
Location: Province of Romblon is part of MIMAROPA Region (Yellow Color)

The MIMAROPA Region was further concretized with the enactment of RA 10879. The
Region is composed of Occidental and Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and
Palawan together with the cities of Calapan and Puerto Princesa as shown in Map above.
Though they as a group, currently contribute only about 2% of the national economy, they
possess rich natural resources and places with high tourism value.

1. Municipal Vision and Mission
The Municipality of San Agustin was assisted last December 2016 by the DILG in thedevelopment of its vision, as stated below, for the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP).
They were guided to formulate their vision based on the basic vision elements in correlation
with sectoral considerations as shown in the Table below.
“San Agustin is a growing eco-tourism destination with a vibrant and sustainableeconomy where God-fearing and family-oriented, functionally-literate people enjoy
health and social security, a balanced ecology and a disaster-resilient community
guided by competent, dynamic and committed leadership”.
Table 1 Dissected Municipal Vision of San Agustin, Romblon
VISION ELEMENTS
SECTOR
People as a Society

SocialDESCRIPTORS
1. God fearing, family oriented andfunctionally literate.
2. Socially secured

Local Economy

Economic

1. Growing Eco-Tourism with vibrant andsustainable economy

State of Natural Environment

Environment

1.Balanced Ecology
2. Disaster Resilient Community
3. Eco-Tourism Destination

Condition of the Built Environment

Infrastructure

1. Disaster Resilient
2. Balanced ecology
3. Eco-tourism destination

Capacity and Quality of the Local
Leadership/GovernanceInstitutional

1. Competent, Dynamic andCommitted

With the aim of the DILG and HLURB to harmonize the mandated local plans based on asingle vision, the above formulated vision was presented to the SAR Community in a
consultation meeting last April 25, 2017 to serve as also the vision for theComprehensive Land Use Plan. This was overwhelmingly approved by the SAR
Community but with the comments that there should be a time frame stated and a vision
catchphrase that can be easily remembered. This was taken up in a prior consultation
meeting. Based on this Municipal Vision, the land use and development plan is to be
developed.

The Municipal Mission Statement for the Vision is as follows:“To establish a strong ties between the municipal government of San Agustin andits stakeholders in building a community of empowered citizens and leaders tosustainably manage the town’s resources for tourism promotion, environmental
protection, heritage conservation, agricultural, educational and technologicaladvancement and socio-economic development”.

2. Geographic and Physical Environment with CDRA Results Summary
The geographic and physical environment of San Agustin can be considered as following theclassic ridge-to-reef configuration. Almost all of the barangays are bounded by high elevation
mountain range on the west side sloping down with its rivers to the eastern coast.
The coastal geomorphology consists of tidal flats that are characterized by the presence ofmangroves both of the palm (Nipa) and tree (Bakawan). The coastal landform is also
composed of ridges and swales; this landform derives from mixtures of fluvial and marine
deposits. It has level areas to nearly relief. Barangays Bachawan, Camantaya, Buli,Binonga-an, Doña Juana, Dubduban, Poblacion, Cagbo-aya, Carmen, and Sugod straddles
this landform.

Figure 1. A View of the Cabolutan-Cagboaya-Poblacion Landscape

The alluvial plains consist of river terraces and fans which represent the deposition of river
system. Most agricultural barangay of Binonga-an, Buli, Cabolutan, Cagbo-aya, Carmen,
Doña Juana, Poblacion and Dubduban belong to this landform. The rivers in the Municipality
as most in Tablas Island originate from the mountain divides, making them of steep gradienton the upper reaches and slightly sloping towards their mouths. Prominent among theseriversare Manonggoy River from the mountains of Tablas Summit and Mt. Payaopao which drains
at Suogod and the Guintigui-an and Malaway Rivers coming from the high elevation of 600
meters at Mt. Progreso at the western boundary of the CALSANAG Watershed Forest
Reserve which converge at the Poblacion Area. Other rivers emanating from this watershed
are Humagikhik and Binonga-an Rivers which drain to the sea at Doña Juana and Binongaan respectively. At the southern part of San Agustin, Hinigusan, Buri and Bachawan Rivers
and their tributaries flow from the mountain peaks east with Mt. Navitas having the highest
elevation at about 500 meters.

The elevated hilly part of San Agustin come in two forms, low relief andesitic limestone hills
and high relief andesitic hills. Reports described some of the hills volcanic while others aremetamorphic. The low relief limestone hills have gently sloping to strongly rolling terrain with
8-30 percent. These occur in the upper portion of fourteen barangays of San Agustin except
Poblacion The high relief hills with 30-50 percent slope occur in Bachawan, Hinugusan,
Lusong, Doña Juana, Dubduban, Cagbo-aya, Sugod, Ma-baybay and Cawayan.

The mountains in San Agustin are located in the western inner portions of barangays
Bachawan, Dubduban, Cagbo-aya, Lusong and Cawayan. These mountains consist ofbasalt and andesitic, occurring in the slope of 50 percent and above. The mountain range
shields some portion of the town from southeast monsoons, however, there are some part of
the Municipality that are perennially exposed to southwest monsoons and typhoons.

Based on the Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA), around 1,334 households or
6,136 people (26% of the total population) are affected by flood (CLUP-TWG, 2017). The
most affected barangays are Dubduban, Poblacion, Binonga-an, Doña Juana and Sugod, alllocated at or near the mouth of the rivers. Critical facilities and lifelines in these areas areaffected and needs to be structurally improved to ensure delivery of basic services during
flooding events.

CDRA results also show that 11 out of 15 barangays are at risk to rain-induced landslides.
Around 12,908 people or 56.63% of the municipality’s population will be affected. From the
11 barangays, nine (9) barangays are projected to have more than 70% of its population
affected. Barangay Cawayan is most at risk with almost all of its population affected by raininduced landslides. Four (4) barangays will be heavily affected by storm surge. Thesebarangays are Poblacion, Cabolutan, Dubduban and Sugod. Based on estimates, 2,337
people will be affected and almost half resides in Barangay Poblacion.

The town is also vulnerable to earthquake as the Tablas Fault runs along the eastern
coastline of the island. Specific ground studies have yet to be undertaken to directly pinpoint
affected households and structures. General precautionary measures at the moment can beobserved to mitigate potential damage.

3. Demographic and Social Environment
Majority of the people in San Agustin consider themselves as Romblomanons.
Romblomanon is one of three (3) ethnolinguistic groups inhabiting the islands of Romblon. It
is mainly spoken in the town of Romblon, the three (3) towns of Sibuyan and the town of San
Agustin in Tablas. The cultural character of the people of Romblon can be attributed to themigration of early settlers to San Agustin from Romblon Island in the 16 th century led by theMontesas.
The male population (11,157) outnumber the female population (10,922) with a ratio of
102:100, based on the 2010 PSA census.
It is observed that although Romblon is part of Southern Luzon, the Romblomanon way oflife is almost completely Visayan; thus, they have forms of art that are different from those of
their Tagalog counterparts. But it can also be noted that considerable number of settlers
migrated to the island from Luzon such as those from Batangas. Romblomanons are also
known to be hardworking, religious and education-oriented.
Romblomanons have their own dialect, which sometimes distinguishes them when speaking
other languages because of the hard accent. There are other major Visayan dialects such as
Asi and Onhan. However, languages such as Tagalog and English are used in transactions.
Almost ninety percent (90%) of the population are Catholic, while the rest are independent
churches including Iglesia ni Cristo, Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, and Foursquare
Gospel. The people of San Agustin celebrates the Kalipayan Festival (Biniray/Streetdancing)held during the months of April and August while the Sabwagan Festival is held every monthof February and July at Barangay Carmen.
The Municipality of San Agustin comprises two (2) urban barangays and thirteen (13) ruralbarangays. The urban barangays do not relatively have high populations but possess
gridded road networks, have distinct central places and are serviced by ports. Based on thelatest census of the town in 2015, San Agustin has a population of 22,598 with 5,273 total
households. The 2010 municipal population was 22,116 with 4,873 households. It grew
.41% from 2010 to 2015.
Barangay Doña Juana has the highest population while Barangay Camantaya has thelowest. In the last five years (2010-2015) Barangay Cawayan was found to have highest

growth rate. It grew by 3.34% while Barangay Buli experienced the most population
shrinkage by -.92%.
Based on the clustering of every five (5) barangays, the northern barangays (Cawayan, MaBaybay, Sugod, Carmen, Cabolutan) has a collective population of 8,134 people. The middle
barangays (Cagbo-aya, Poblacion, Dubduban, Doña Juana, Binonga-an) are populated by
9,330 people while the southern barangays (Lusong, Hinugusan, Buli, Camantaya,
Bachawan) are home to 5,134 people. The joint growth rates of these clusters of barangays,from 2010-2015, were computed as follows: Northern: .84%, Middle: .34% and Southern:.03%. It can noted that two (2) southern barangays have experienced negative growths at
this time: Buli (-.92%) and Camantaya (-.51%).

At the end of the planning period, Barangay Doña Juana will remain as the most populatedarea in 2027 with 2,648 people with the adjacent Barangay Dubduban coming in at second
with 2,262 people. Both of these barangays are part of the middle barangay cluster. The
third most populated area, at that time, will be Barangay Ma-Baybay at 2,120 people in thiscoastal community while Barangay Bachawan is projected to be a close fourth with 2,091
people. They are located within the northern barangay and southern barangay clusters
respectively.

San Agustin has a gross population of 238 persons/sq.km. or approximately 2 persons(2.38)/hectare. Barangay Poblacion is the most densely populated at 83 persons/hectarewith Barangay Hinugusan as the least dense at only 105 people/sq.km or 1 person/hectarewith Barangay Camantaya following closely at 107. Barangay Bachawan has the largest
area coverage (1,094 hec.) and Doña Juana, the highest population (2,514) while Barangay
Poblacion is the most dense covering 18 hectares with 1,496 people. The latter’s population
density far exceeds the minimum of 500 persons/sq.km to be considered urban. The varying
definitions of urban areas in the Philippine setting can be applied to some areas in thebarangays of Ma-baybay, Carmen, Dubduban, Doña Juana, Lusong and Bachawan. These
areas can be explored as agro-tourism centers or nodes of mixed-use activities servicing acluster of barangays.
Table 1. Five-Barangay Clusters of San Agustin, Romblon: Population Densities, 2015
Areainsq.km.

Pop.
Densitypersons/s
q.km

8,134

26.60

306

Cawayan

858

2.99

287

Ma-Baybay
Sugod

2,013
1,515

3.43
8.26

587
183

Carmen

1,953

6.46

302

Cabolutan

1,795

5.46

329

Northern
Barangays

Pop.
2015

MiddleBarangays

Cagboaya
Poblacion
Dubduba
n
Doña
Juana
Binongaan

Pop.
2015

Area
in
sq.km.

Pop.
Densitypersons/sq.kmSouthern
BarangaysAreain
sq.km.

Pop.
Densitypersons/sq.km

5,134

35.36

145

1,000

8.33

120

Pop.
2015

9,330

33.16

281

1,398

4.02

348

1,496
2,148

.18
10.82

83/hec*199

Hinugusan
Buli

819
824

7.78
3.59

105
230

2,514

8.76

287

Camantaya

505

4.72

107

1,774

9.38

189

Bachawan

1,986

10.94

182

Municipality of San Agustin, Romblon

22,59895.12

238

Province of Romblon

292,781

1,533.45

191

LusongSource: Philippine Statistic Authority, 2015 Census of Population, MPDO, *Poblacion in hectares as the area is less than1 sq. km or
100 hec.

The dependency ratio of San Agustin was computed at 81, which implies that for every 100of the working population in San Agustin, there are 81 dependents that need to be assisted
and supported (69 young people and 12 seniors).

Health. The status of health of people in San Agustin is generally satisfactory. Based on themorbidity and mortality rates in the last 3 years no major health epidemic hit the town. The
town have ample health facilities anchored by a district level hospital, the Tablas Island
District Hospital (TIDH). It is linked to the Rural Health Unit of the Municipality and the four
major (4) Barangay Health Centers located in proximate to areas with high population. In
terms of health facilities, San Agustin is considered to have enough of them within the set
minimum standards during the 10-year planning period.

Sanitation. In terms of access to sanitary toilet facilities, the MPDO thru RCBMS recordedthat Barangay Doña Juana has the highest percentage share (34.72%) with no access withthe most number of households (599). It is followed by Barangay Hinugusan and then
Barangay Buli. Those with highest access proportionate with their number of households are
the urban barangays of Poblacion (100%) and Carmen (96.10%) with Cagbo-aya in between
at 99.12%.
Access to Safe Water. Among the households without access to safe water, Brgy. Doña
Juana registered the highest number, at almost 35% of its households. It is followed bythose in Brgy. Hinugusan at 33% while Buli’s households came in third with the most number
without access to safe water at almost 30%.
Education. Based on the 2010 Census, among the 19,481 household population of San
Agustin over 5 years old, 8,890 people or 45.63% completed elementary school; 6,299 or
32.33% graduated from secondary school and 2,265 (11.63%) reached college. Those who
earned their college degrees comprise 5.76% (1,122) of the total while .25% earned morehigher degrees.
The cumulative non-participation rate of San Agustin for both primary and secondary levels
is found at 3.09%. Thus, school age population has a participation rate of 96.01% for bothlevels. Barangay Lusong registered the highest non-participation rate at 5.02% with Doña
Juana following at 4.66% and then Cabolutan, 4.57%.
On the tertiary level, it was reported that Romblon State University in the San Agustin
Campus has a total enrolment of 397 students in SY 2015-2016. Based on the available
population of ages 15-19 at 2,397. The local tertiary participation rate is roughly computed at
16.56%. It can be noted that most college age youth opt to study in the highly urbanized
university centers in Visayas and Luzon.

Housing. Based on the 2010 Census, San Agustin has a total of 4,843 occupied housing
units. These are home to 4,873 households consisting of 22,079 household population. This
makes a 1:1 housing unit to household ratio with an average of 4.6 persons per housing unit.
Among these housing units, 4,792 or 98.95% are single detached or attached units while theremaining less than 2% consists of duplexes (15) or multi-residential units (24).
The 2010 housing need of San Agustin, based on available data is computed to be 606
housing units based on housed-unhoused population difference and housing needing major
repairs. Housing Demand based on the censal years of 2000 and 2010 and projected to2027 was computed to be 758 Dwelling Units (DUs) per year. It is estimated that San
Agustin will need about 7.5 hectares of residential land per year if land area per residential
unit will be 100 sq,m. This would be lesser if people will opt for denser housing types suchas duplexes, townhouse and walk-up apartments.

The Municipality is envisioning to expand areas for housing southwest of the Poblacion. It
would extend the existing street pattern to the adjacent Brgy. Dubduban to cover someexisting agricultural land for conversion to residential and commercial purposes subject toproper procedures and justifications. With the development of rural service or mixed-use
nodal activity centers, certain expansion areas for housing around centers (Poblacion,
Carmen and Bachawan or other centers) will be identified as agreed upon by the municipal
community. These are to boost the development of homestay businesses, hotels andecolodges to support the growth of tourism, which is the main thrust of municipal
development.
Poverty Level. Based on the RCBMS Survey, sixty-two percent (62%) of the households of
San Agustin have income below the poverty threshold of an annual estimated individual or
per capita income of P 21,296.00. Barangay Sugod has the highest number of poor
households at 88% followed by Barangay Lusong at 84% and Barangay Mahabang Baybay
at 81%. Barangay Lusong was also found to have the highest percentage (76%) of its
households’ income below the family food threshold level of P 5,000/month or an annual
individual expense of P 14, 872. Barangay Lusong and Doña Juana followed with 75% and
69% respectively. None of these Barangays experienced extensive food shortage except
those of Binonga-an (48%), Buli (8%) and Cawayan (7.5%).
Cumulativey, the poorest Barangay in San Agustin based on the CBMS parameters is
Sugod, followed by Lusong and then Mahabang Baybay. Collectively, the northern
Barangays are relatively poorer than the southern Barangays. The middle Barangays are
better off in terms of income except for Doña Juana.

4. Economic Environment
The economy of the municipality of San Agustin is primarily agricultural dominated by copra
with industry mostly limited to handicrafts while services are mostly wholesale and retail. It
has higher unemployment rate and poverty rate than the province. Its economic baseappears as exporting in agriculture and some services to outside areas. Its potentials lie in
its numerous natural attractions that can be harnessed for ecotourism complementing
The economy of San Agustin is predominantly agricultural with 50% of its employment
accounted by the Agriculture Forestry and Fishing sector. The Industry sector (Mining of
Quarrying; Manufacturing; Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply;Construction) only contributes to 13% of employment with its sub-sector Construction

partaking 9%. The Services sector is the next biggest with 38% of employment share ofwhich the biggest is “Wholesale and Retail Trade; and Repair of Motor Vehicles andMotorcycles” with 12%. It is followed consequently by Public Administrative and Defense;
Compulsory Social Security with 8%, Transportation and Storage with 7%, and Education
with 6%. The other services sub-sectors have 1 % or less share of employment.
Almost half of the employments by occupation in the Municipality are by Farmers, Forestry
Workers and Fishermen (48%) which is way far above the provincial rate (39%). Thismeans the agriculture sector in the municipality are mostly small farms. The otheroccupations in the town roughly resembles the provincial rate except in Trade and RelatedWorkers and in Laborers and Unskilled Workers which are lower than the provincial rates byaround 3%.
San Agustin is the leading municipality in Romblon in terms of area planted to coconuts with
13% of the province’s 57,686 hectares cultivated to the crop. Similarly, in terms of numberof trees, SAR partakes the largest share with 1,089,657 trees (17%) of the province’s
6,248,392 trees. While San Agustin has a higher area of coconut plantations, it trails othermunicipalities in terms of production per hectare. SAR ranks fourth in member of coconut
farm workers (3,138) which is about 8% of the provincial total. Most or 95% of the coconut
produced in the province are transported to either Lucena or Batangas. Lucena gets the bulkof 95% of the copra produced by the province.
Fishing is a major activity in the Municipality. As of 2016 there were 1,734 registeredfishermen with a total of 723 fishing boats of which 675 are non-motorized while only 209 are
motorized. The main fishing grounds are the open sea and Carmen Bay. In 2015 total catch
reached 103 MT with value of PhP8.5M. Using a per capita fish requirement of 32.7 kgs perannum the total fish requirements for San Agustin is about 742MT. This means the town
despite being a coastal town with access to the vast seas is in shortage of fish which arebeing imported from neighboring towns. The main culprit is the lack of ice and cold storage
that will encourage large fish production.
Industries that are operating in San Agustin are mainly cottage industries such as raffia
production (bags, baskets, mats, hats, etc.) rattan and nitto basket and plate weaving, broom
production such as soft broom made of tiger grass, locally known as walis tambo, andcoconut broom or broomstick made of coconut palm fronds (leaves), locally known as walis
tingting. These products are largely exported. In the making of good quality soft brooms
tiger grass (thysanolaena maxima), also known as “luway,” is chiefly used as raw materials.
In barangay Doña Juana 200 hectares of land are planted with tiger grass which is thelargest in the province. Romblon has around 400 hectares of land planted with tiger grasses
with more farms being established each year for the past three years. Annual harvest for
tiger grass is valued at PhP4M.
Based on the data from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the town has only one bank institution –a rural bank. There are no ATMs in the Municipality until 2017 when one was set up by arural bank. However, there are other nine (9) financial facilities performing varied financial
services. These number, though, has remained the same since 2013. The number of banks
usually indicate how progressive a locality is. In the case of San Agustin, it has a long way
to go to increase its number of banks from one. A rapid growth in the town’s economy
usually accompany the increase in the number of banks. There is a total of 480 registeredbusinesses in San Agustin as 2016 of which the bulk (39%) are in the Poblacion which also
has the largest

number of new registrants. The barangays with the fewest number of establishments are
Buli and Cawayan. Almost 60% of these establishments are sari-sari stores. Most of theestablishments are various forms of wholesale and retail. There are a few lodging facilities
and restaurants. On the other hand, gross annual receipts of these businesses reached
PhP69.5M in 2016 of which 80% is accounted by those located in the Poblacion.
San Agustin has great potentials for ecotourism. Among its attractions, include beaches,waterfalls, diving site. One of them which is unique in the world is the Blue Hole in Barangay
Cawayan. Some sites are already identified that can be harnessed to earn income for themunicipality. In addition, the people of San Agustin celebrates the Kalipayan Festival(Biniray /Streetdancing) held during the months of April and August while the Sabwagan
Festival is held every month of February and July at Barangay Carmen.
San Agustin has only few accommodation facilities for outside visitors operating in the town,
located primarily the Poblacion which is far from the tourist attractions. These facilities,
however, would need enhancement to meet the competitive standards of the tourism market.
These very few accommodations posed a stumbling block in the towns thrust toward
ecotourism. There is a seeming need for alternative accommodations that can gestate
immediately for incoming tourists like homestay.
5. Infrastructure and Utilities Support

A circumferential road connects thesouthern to the northern barangays of the municipality,particularly from Brgy. Bachawan toBrgy. Poblacion then up to Brgy. Carmen. This circumferential road continues to thewestern side of the Municipality to the adjacent Municipality of Calatrava through a majorarterial Salingsing Road. A provincial roadconnectsBrgy. Carmen, Sugod, Cawayan and Mabaybay further on the southeast side near to the coast. Barangays roads provide access toinner areas of barangays where most residential areas are located.
Ninety seven percent of the national roads are concrete and the remaining 3 percent is still
gravel. This comprises 26 kilometers of the total road network. The provincial roads
comprise a stretch of 7 km in which 74.3% are still gravel, while 25.7% are concrete.
Municipal roads are 100% concrete which comprise a total of 4.2 km, while barangay roads
have total length of 53.3 km in which 67.3% are concrete and 32.7 are still gravel.

In total, the gross road density of the municipality is 0.65 kilometer per square kilometer ofland area. The total length of new roads that needs to be built is 50 kilometer to achieve astandard road density of one kilometer per square kilometer for rural areas.
All bridges in San Agustin are made of concrete and are considered permanent. Eighty six
percent (86%) of the total length of all the bridges have fair condition, i.e. four out of fivebridges. The Lusong Bridge have poor condition which is now under repair.
Sources of water for irrigation mainly are from rivers and creeks. Drainage facilities arecontinuously upgraded to accommodate increasing demand and further improve draining
capacity to prevent flooding during rainy seasons.
Main source of water in the barangays of San Agustin are communal faucets. Sources suchas shallow well, deep well, improved spring and water pumps are not prevalent in themunicipality. Just recently, several barangays have elevated their service level to 3. These
are: Bachawan, Hinugusan, Carmen, Mabaybay, Cawayan, Cabolutan, Camantaya, Buli andLusong.
The current power supplier of the main grid of San Agustin is the Tablas Island Electric
Cooperative (TIELCO). The pricing is regulated by the Energy Regulatory Commission(ERC) and is subsidized by the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR). The source ofpower is mainly coming from a diesel power plant.
A total of 74% of the population is served with sufficient electricity, though at times power
shortages are experienced due to facility breakdowns. Twenty-six percent (26%) percent
are yet to be served. Most of the types of connections being served are domestic (98%).
Two percent are for public buildings and streetlights. The average kWh consumption fordomestic use is 30 kWh per month.

PORTION

ARIAL VIEW OF THE CENTER OF THE MUNICIPALITY, BARANGAY POBLACION

PICTURES OF TOWN CENTER BARANGAY POBLACIONSEAT OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

Figure: San Agustin, Municipal Hall Facade