Land Area and Its Uses
The municipality has an approximately 163.84 km². (16,384 has.) land area which constitutes 3.1% of the province land areas. It is composed of 48 barangays, 14 of which are proposed within the urban area and the remaining 34 barangays are within the rural areas.
With its generally flat terrain, the dominant land use is agricultural. The built-up areas and major rivers have the smallest portion of the total area. Built-up areas are clustered within the urban barangays. The urban areas expand in an almost linear development or ribbon like development pattern.
Proposed land use as embodied in the Comprehensive Land use Plan has delineated the Residential, Commercial, institutional area within the Urban Land Use while the agricultural, Agro-industrial, Special use could be found in the General land use.
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