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Loreto, Dinagat Islands, the Glossary

Loreto, officially the Municipality of Loreto (Lungsod sa Loreto; Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Loreto; Bayan ng Loreto; Bungto han Loreto), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, Philippines.^[1]

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Mining communities in the Philippines
Municipalities of Dinagat Islands

Anniversary

An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event.

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Asset

In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity.

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Barangay

A barangay (abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as a barrio (Bo.), is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward.

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Barrio

Barrio is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood".

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Chromite

Chromite is a crystalline mineral composed primarily of iron(II) oxide and chromium(III) oxide compounds.

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Crime statistics

Crime statistics refer to systematic, quantitative results about crime, as opposed to crime news or anecdotes.

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Deputy mayor

The deputy mayor (also known as vice mayor, assistant mayor, mayor pro tem, or mayor pro tempore) is an elective or appointive office of the second-ranking official that is present in many, but not all, local governments.

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Dinagat Islands

Dinagat Islands (Cebuano: Mga Pulo sa Dinagat; Surigaonon: Mga Puyo nan Dinagat; Kabalian: Mga Puyo san Dinagat; Waray: Mga Purô han Dinagat; Filipino: Mga Islang Dinagat), officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is an island province in the Caraga region of the Philippines, located on the south side of Leyte Gulf.

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Economy of the Philippines

The economy of the Philippines is an emerging market, and considered as a newly industrialized country in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Expense

An expense is an item requiring an outflow of money, or any form of fortune in general, to another person or group as payment for an item, service, or other category of costs.

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Gibusong

Gibusong, variously Hibusong and Hibuson, is a Waray-speaking island in Mindanao, Philippines, in the province of Dinagat Islands.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Guano

Guano (Spanish from wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats.

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Guiuan

Guiuan (ˈgiˌwan; Bungto han Guiuan, Bayan ng Guiuan), officially the Municipality of Guiuan, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines. Loreto, Dinagat Islands and Guiuan are Mining communities in the Philippines.

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Household

A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling.

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Internal Revenue Allotment

The Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) is a local government unit’s (LGU) share of revenues from the Philippine national government.

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Languages of the Philippines

There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification.

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Laterite

Laterite is a soil type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.

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Leyte Gulf

Leyte Gulf, also known simply as the Leyte, is a gulf in the Eastern Visayan region in the Philippines.

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Liability (financial accounting)

In financial accounting, a liability is a quantity of value that a financial entity owes.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Measuring poverty

Poverty is measured in different ways by different bodies, both governmental and nongovernmental.

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Municipalities of the Philippines

A municipality (bayan / munisipalidad / munisipyo / puweblo; bayan; banwa; lungsod; baley; balen / balayan; banwaan; bungto; ili) is a local government unit (LGU) in the Philippines.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Philippine Sea

The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of.

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Philippine Standard Time

Philippine Standard Time (PST or PhST; Pamantayang Oras ng Pilipinas), also known as Philippine Time (PHT), is the official name for the time zone used in the Philippines.

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The Philippine Statistics Authority (Pangasiwaan ng Estadistika ng Pilipinas; PSA) is the central statistical authority of the Philippine government that collects, compiles, analyzes, and publishes statistical information on economic, social, demographic, political affairs, and general affairs of the people of the Philippines, as well as enforcing the civil registration functions in the country.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Phosphorite

Phosphorite, phosphate rock or rock phosphate is a non-detrital sedimentary rock that contains high amounts of phosphate minerals.

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Poblacion

Poblacion (literally "town" or "settlement" in Spanish) is the common term used for the administrative center, central, downtown, old town or central business district area of a Philippine city or municipality, which may take up the area of a single barangay or multiple barangays.

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Provinces of the Philippines

In the Philippines, provinces (lalawigan or probinsiya) are one of its primary political and administrative divisions.

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Purok

A purok (district or zone) is an informal division within a barangay in the Philippines.

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Regions of the Philippines

In the Philippines, regions (rehiyon; ISO 3166-2:PH) are administrative divisions that primarily serve to coordinate planning and organize national government services across multiple local government units (LGUs).

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Revenue

In accounting, revenue is the total amount of income generated by the sale of goods and services related to the primary operations of the business.

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Sand

Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.

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Sangguniang Bayan

The Sangguniang Bayan is the local legislative branch of the municipal governments in the Philippines.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.

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Sitio

A sitio (Spanish for "site") in the Philippines is a territorial enclave that forms part of a barangay.

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Surigao del Norte

Surigao del Norte (Surigaonon: Probinsya nan Surigao del Norte; Amihanang Surigao; Tagalog: Hilagang Surigao), officially the Province of Surigao del Norte, is a province in the Philippines located in the Caraga region of Mindanao.

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Surigao Strait

Surigao Strait (Filipino: Kipot ng Surigaw) is a strait in the southern Philippines, between the Bohol Sea and Leyte Gulf of the Philippine Sea.

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Surigaonon language

Surigaonon is an Austronesian language spoken by Surigaonon people.

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Tubajon

Tubajon, officially the Municipality of Tubajon (Lungsod sa Tubajon; Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Tubajon; Bayan ng Tubajon; Bungto han Tubajon), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Dinagat Islands, Philippines. Loreto, Dinagat Islands and Tubajon are Municipalities of Dinagat Islands.

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ZIP codes in the Philippines

In the Philippines, a ZIP code is used by the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhlPost) to simplify the distribution of mail.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loreto,_Dinagat_Islands

Also known as Loreto, Dinagat Island, Loreto, Surigao del Norte.

Loreto, Dinagat Islands, the Glossary

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See also

Mining communities in the Philippines

Municipalities of Dinagat Islands

References