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Cawayan
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The people of Cebu and Leyte were the first settlers near the mouth of Cawayan River and named the settlement of Corocawayan. The name originated from a plant that resembles the bamboo that thrived abundantly along the riverbanks. In 1937, it was created into a barrio under the Municipality of Milagros. Its named was then shortened into Cawayan.Cawayan was created into municipality on August 27, 1949 by virtue of an Executive Order No. 662 through Resolution No. 1, series of 1949 passed by the local government under the administration of the late honorable Mayor Tomas Rivera. The economy of Cawayan had improved from year to year. Agricultural and aquamarine products contributed a lot to the local economy. It was in the later part of the 90βs when the economy had tremendously boomed. Among its varied aqua-marine products, the municipality is gifted with one unique shell which is being exported worldwide , known as the scallop, locally known as Ticab, throughout the world it could only be vastly found in the seas of this municipality and partly in the Municipality of Placer, Masbate. Brief profile The municipality of Cawayan is located in the south-western part of the mainland of Masbate. It is between 123 degress and 46 minutes East Longitude and 11 degress and 56 minutes Latitude. It is bounded on the southeast by the Municipality of Placer and on the East by the Municipalities of Palanas and Cataingan. On the west is Asid Gulf, on the Northwest is the Municipality of Milagros, on the North is the Municipality of Uson and on the Northeast by the Municipality of Dimasalang. Like the Mainland Masbate, the Municipality belongs to type III Climate, characterized by a not very pronounced maximum rain period with dry season. The annual rainfall ranges from 2,200mm to 2,500mm, being influenced by the southwest Monsoon (habagat), inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and occasional typhoon.
Cawayan is a vast track of plains and rolling hills but the majority is plain and lowland. Its highest peak is at a cliff-rocky mountain at Barangay Begia with an elevation of about 100 meters Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL), the lowest is found at the coastal portion of Poblacion and shoreline barangay with an elevation of about 2 meters AMSL.
Cawayan is 64 Kilometers away from Masbate City. It is politically divided into 37 barangays, 7 of which are island barangays, 9 coastal barangays, 2 inland water barangays, and 19 interior barangays. It has total land area of 32,000 hectares. About 19,667 hectares used for agriculture and the rest for residential, commercial and other purposes.
The municipality is one of the most populated in the whole Province of Masbate. Based on the 2000 census, Cawayan has annual growth rate of 2.66% and 52,256 inhabitants. This corresponds to 7% of the total population of Masbate. The urban residents comprised 22% and the rural residents were 78% based on the 1995 census. Now it has a projected population of 69,864. The people speaks English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilonggo and MasbateΓ±o and there are more than twelve religious groups, including Roman Catholic, Aglipay, Islam, Protestant, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovahβs Witness, Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association and others.
