San Ricardo

San Ricardo, officially the Municipality of San Ricardo (Cebuano: Lungsod sa San Ricardo; Tagalog: Bayan ng San Ricardo), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 10,500 people.

Geography

Barangays

San Ricardo is politically subdivided into 15 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.

• Benit
• Bitoon
• Cabutan
• Camang
• Esperanza
• Pinut-an
• Poblacion (Santiago)
• San Antonio (Alangalang)
• San Ramon
• Saub
• Timba
• Esperanza Dos
• Kinachawa
• Inolinan
• Looc

Climate

Demographics

Economy

Poverty incidence of San Ricardo

Transportation

Seaport

San Ricardo Port or also known as Benit Port is a roro port that serves to and from Lipata Port, Surigao City, connects Pan-Philippine Highway also called Maharlika Highway AH26 that originates from Laoag to its southern terminus Zamboanga City. Montenegro Shipping Lines is the only primary ferry boat to serve Lipata Port and Benit Port.

Land

San Ricardo also have bus terminal, named Benit Integrated Bus Terminal. It's serves from a local point including Manila and Davao. DLTBCo, Ultrabus, and CUL Transportation and other bus companies served from San Ricardo to Luzon. Bachelor Express also serve San Ricardo from Davao to Ormoc and Tacloban.

References

External links

• San Ricardo Profile at PhilAtlas.com
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• Philippine Census Information
• Local Governance Performance Management System

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3. Ricardo Chavira
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6. Southern Leyte
7. Puss in Boots (Shrek)
8. Ricardo Rodriguez (footballer)
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17. Ricardo Chávez (footballer)
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