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Not sure what Sorsogon looks like? Feast your eyes on nature's beauty by clicking on the video above! ⬆️

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SORSOGON Travel Video | 4K Resolution | Sorsogon Tourism Video

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The capital city Sorsogon is situated in the NIA Region 5 (also known as Bicol Region) that occupies the southeastern peninsula of Luzon and the outlying island

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The Province has a land area of 2,119.01 square kilometers or 818.15 square miles. The Marine Waterbodies that borders Sorsogon are the Philippine Sea, Samar Sea, San Bernardino Strait, Ticao Pass, Burias Pass, and Sorsogon Bay.

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🧭 THE PROVINCE OF SORSOGON: Demographics

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🧭 THE PROVINCE OF SORSOGON: Demographics

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Given Sorsogon’s land area and the number of barangays and municipalities it contains, its overall population would amount to 792,949 in which among the majority of this population would be the adolescents and the seniority within the age range of 15 to 64.

See also: https://cmci.dti.gov.ph/prov-profile.php?prov=Sorsogon&year=2020

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Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index | CMCI

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Is an annual ranking of Philippine cities and municipalities developed by the National Competitiveness Council through the Regional Competitiveness Committees (RCCs) with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development.

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In terms of economics, Sorsogon is a province in an agriculture-centered archipelago, which makes it primarily an agricultural area where coconuts and rice are the main products. Most of the people in coastal areas are engaged in fishing. Manufacturing occurs mainly in homes and small shops that produce furniture, tricycles, processed foods, and handicrafts.

For data on Sorsogon's economy and economic dynamism over the years with 2022 as the latest, visit:
https://www.philatlas.com/luzon/r05/sorsogon.html |
https://cmci.dti.gov.ph/lgu-profile.php?lgu=Sorsogon&year=2022

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Prieto Diaz, a coastal municipality located in the province of Sorsogon, has a land area of 49.07 square kilometers or 18.95 square miles which constitutes 2.32% of Sorsogon’s total area. The Marine Waterbodies that surround Prieto Diaz is the Albay Gulf (Philippine Sea).

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LEBANON BEACH IN PRIETO DIAZ BLOG REVIEW

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📍MUNICIPALITY OF PRIETO DIAZ: Demographics 

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📍MUNICIPALITY OF PRIETO DIAZ: Demographics 

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Taking into account the overall population of Sorsogon, the municipality of Prieto Diaz would, then, have an overall population that is amounting to 22,442.

See also: https://www.city-facts.com/prieto-diaz

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Typhoon “Tisoy's" P2.6 million worth of damage to Sorsogon province last 2019. Photo grabbed from https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1198408/tisoy-leaves-p2-6-b-dama

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🤔 DEPRIVATIONS: Pre and Post-Typhoon Action

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🤔 DEPRIVATIONS: Pre and Post-Typhoon Action

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🌍 SDG 13, CLIMATE ACTION: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

💧 Sorsogon is directly exposed to the Pacific Ocean where most of the typhoons that hit the Philippines come from. The entirety of Sorsogon is vulnerable to tropical cyclones and storm surges, extreme rainfall and flooding, fluctuating temperatures, and rising sea levels. In return, these climate-induced disasters affect the city’s capacity to achieve and sustain development as a whole.

💧 Year by year, Sorsogon continues to find ways to actively combat climate change and has since then become a “model of disaster-resilient towns and cities by proactively addressing climate change and taking local actions,” according to architect and urban environmental planner Nathaniel von Einsiedel.

💧 It's importance❓ To influence other provinces and cities all over the Philippines to follow in their footsteps in creating a “disaster-resilient” land when typhoons hit the PH yearly.

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🌍 SDG 11, SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

💧 Through research, it’s been discovered that Sorsogon has closed two of its dump sites as these have been poorly operated and have begun to affect the quality of life of the people surrounding these areas.

💧 In the municipality of Prieto Diaz, water facilities have been deprived. Water is a high demand in the province of Sorsogon as it is used mainly for irrigation, power generation, and consumption, yet though it was so, Prieto Diaz is one of the many municipalities that is lacking enough water facilities to distribute to its citizens. Lack of water facilities or any access to water could eventually lead to a series of problems with regard to health and hygiene.

Other sources: https://goodneighbors.ph/good-stories-posts/gnip-provided-water-facility-in-prieto-diaz-sorsogon/ | https://development.asia/case-study/sorsogon-city-options-developing-new-landfill

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Good Neighbors International Philippines - Empowering People, Transforming Communities

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GNIP provided Water Facility in Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon - Good Neighbors International Philippines - Empowering People, Transforming Communities

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Clean water and hygiene, as well as, access to sanitation facilities are basic human rights. These are crucial for defeating hunger and poverty...

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📍 MUNICIPALITY OF PRIETO DIAZ: Economics

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📍 MUNICIPALITY OF PRIETO DIAZ: Economics

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Prieto Diaz is a fifth class coastal municipality in the province of Sorsogon with an annual regular revenue of ₱61,385,927.49 for the fiscal year in 2016.

For more data, including the economic dynamism from 2017 until 2022, see also:
https://www.philatlas.com/luzon/r05/sorsogon/prieto-diaz.html |
https://cmci.dti.gov.ph/lgu-profile.php?lgu=Prieto%20Diaz

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🧪 SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS: SDG 13 Deprivation

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🧪 SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS: SDG 13 Deprivation

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➡️ Climate change is the statistical characteristics of the climate system, such as the weather pattern, and the consequent impact on the oceans, land surfaces, and ice sheets, which occur over periods of decades or longer.

➡️ The Philippines is extremely susceptible to the ramifications of climate change, including coastal flooding, frequent extreme weather events, increasing temperatures, and heavy storms.

➡️ This is due to its high exposure to natural hazards, such as cyclones, landslides, floods, and periods of drought, reliance on climate-sensitive natural resources, and vast coastal areas from which all of its urban centers and the majority of the population reside, including Prieto Diaz in Sorsogon.

➡️ Other impacts of climate change include annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) losses, shifts in rainfall patterns and distribution, crop failures, threats to biodiversity and food security, public health risks, and adversely affecting vulnerable groups such as women and indigenous people.

📡 Technological Advancements

GeoMapperPH

Disaster Risk Reduction Plans

✅ Positive Impacts

Disaster Risk Reduction Plans: These plans help people become proactive when it comes to natural disasters as Sorsogon and its many municipalities are prone to typhoons and landslides.

GeoMapperPH: This tool that’s been newly developed is able to help many citizens before, during, and after natural disasters. It is equipped with tools that can help citizens recognize the impact of a natural calamity, contact LGUs and other government agencies, as well as detect the various activities that can help preserve the environment.

❌ Negative Impacts

The makers of this Padlet have collectively concluded that there is no negative impact on the aforementioned Technological Advancements, as they believe that these will help not only the Municipality of Prieto Diaz and the Province of Sorsogon, but the rest of the Philippines where typhoons are likely to cause disasters.

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🧪 SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS: SDG 11 Deprivation

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🧪 SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS: SDG 11 Deprivation

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➡️ Urbanization is one of the leading causes of the deprivation of water supply as well as other environmental issues within Sorsogon and Prieto Diaz. Along with urbanization would be the great demand of water for the whole community: as they begin to grow, more people would demand for water. Taking note that water in Sorsogon is not only for consumption, but also for irrigation and power generation, it nearly comes to no surprise that water would become one of Prieto Diaz’s most obvious deprivation.

📡 Technological Advancements

Integrated Solid Waste Management + Options for developing new landfill

Water facilities provided by companies to some schools within the municipality

Irrigation dam for farmers in Carayat, Prieto Diaz → government funded

✅ Positive Impacts

Solid Waste Management: Protects the environment and its biodiversity as it encourages recycling and reduces pollution.

Irrigation: Irrigation dams can reduce erosion risk and increase opportunities for enhancing biodiversity values.

Water facilities: Water facilities increase access to water and reduce the risk of catching water-borne diseases.

❌ Negative Impacts

Landfills: As the waste is buried underground, it could still cause land and air pollution as the trash buried underneath could contaminate the land as well as water should there be one nearby

Irrigation: Irrigation dams could also affect the landscape values as well as increasing the risk for contamination of ground and surface water

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Nakakamanghang pasyalan sa Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon ang Bigaho Eco Park. — Jose Carretero

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What's there to see at Prieto Diaz? Check out this video for more inside scoop! 🌞

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Nakakamanghang pasyalan sa Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon ang Bigaho Eco Park.

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🧭 SORSOGON

Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index. (n.d.). CMCI. https://cmci.dti.gov.ph/lgu-profile.php?lgu=Sorsogon

Sorsogon | PhilAtlas. PhilAtlas. (n.d.). Retrieved November 21, 2022, from https://www.philatlas.com/luzon/r05/sorsogon.html

Tourism. Sorsogon Provincial Government. (n.d.). Retrieved November 21, 2022, from https://www.sorsogon.gov.ph/tourism/

📍 PRIETO DIAZ

Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index. (n.d.-b). CMCI. https://cmci.dti.gov.ph/lgu-profile.php?lgu=Prieto+Diaz

Prieto Diaz, Province of Sorsogon. PhilAtlas. (n.d.). Retrieved November 21, 2022, from https://www.philatlas.com/luzon/r05/sorsogon/prieto-diaz.html#sectionDemog

🤔 SDG Deprivations

Einsiedel, N. V. (2021, August 29). Sorsogon reinvents itself to be disaster-resilient. BluPrint. Retrieved November 21, 2022, from https://bluprint.onemega.com/disaster-resilient-city-sorsogon/#:~:text=The%20city%20and%20the%20province,temperature%2C%20and%20rising%20sea%20levels.

Goal 11 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (n.d.). Retrieved November 21, 2022, from https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal11

Goal 13 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (n.d.). Retrieved November 21, 2022, from https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13

Good Neighbors International Philippines - Empowering People, Transforming Communities. (2021, April 12). GNIP provided Water Facility in Prieto Diaz, Sorsogon. https://goodneighbors.ph/good-stories-posts/gnip-provided-water-facility-in-prieto-diaz-sorsogon/

🧪 SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS

Amnesty International UK. (2018, November 13). Philippines country most at risk from climate crisis. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/philippines-country-most-risk-climate-crisis

Balmadrid, D., Bartolata, R., Belgica, R., Bilaro, R., Confiado, V., Derri, A., Desuyo, R., Dioneda Sr., S., Hitosis, R., Janer, V., Miranda, S., Munoz, F., Naz, E., & Torres, G. (2019). Water, food, and energy in Sorsogon City, Philippines. resourceefficientcities.org. https://resourceefficientcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/GI-REC-Pilot-City-Sorsogon-FINAL-1.pdf

Brown, A. (2021, November 19). Climate change in The Philippines. ArcGIS StoryMaps. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/27be4dd0e01a43ed8686a4e0add7a3dc

Brown, I., & Harris, S. (2005, February). Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of Irrigation in the Mackenzie Basin. https://environment.govt.nz/. https://environment.govt.nz/assets/Publications/Files/Environmental-economic-and-social-impacts-of-irrigation-in-the-Mackenzie-Basin.pdf

Climate Change Commission. (n.d.). Climate Change Impacts. NICCDIES. https://niccdies.climate.gov.ph/climate-change-impacts

Lai, O. (2022, October 19). Water Shortage: Causes and Effects. Earth.Org. https://earth.org/causes-and-effects-of-water-shortage/

Natural Energy Hub. (2018, March 7). What is waste management, steps, methods and advantages. https://naturalenergyhub.com/waste-management/waste-management-steps-methods-advantages/

NCBI - WWW Error Blocked Diagnostic. (n.d.). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525207/table/ch9.sec5.table6/

PAGASA. (n.d.). https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/information/climate-change-in-the-philippines

Philippines. (2022, November 18). Global Climate Change. https://www.climatelinks.org/countries/philippines

Philippines: Gov commends Sorsogon’s disaster risk reduction programme. (2011, January 20). PreventionWeb. https://www.preventionweb.net/news/philippines-gov-commends-sorsogons-disaster-risk-reduction-programme

Philippines looks to improve disaster preparedness with geospatial tech. (2021, March 10). Mongabay Environmental News. https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/philippines-looks-to-improve-disaster-preparedness-with-geospatial-tech/?fbclid=IwAR3swOj3ZTMLTasr5tfN2jr1eI1_u5igEGq2cKMdWCDlCQWsHpySzGn0ZPk

Sorsogon City: Options for Developing a New Landfill. (n.d.). Development Asia. https://development.asia/case-study/sorsogon-city-options-developing-new-landfill