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Quick Facts:
The Municipality of Sta. Teresita is located in Western portion of Batangas. It is a fifth class municipality with three (3) Poblacion barangays and fourteen (14) rural barangays. It covers a land area of 1,503.5211 hectares with 21,240 inhabitants and 11,047 registered voters. It could be noted that the number or registered voters decreased due to inability to go to LGU for the legislators.
Geographically, it can be described as hilly and upland suited for cultivation of agricultural crops such as sugar cane, rice, corn, coconut, coffee aand fruit trees which include mango and citrus. Bamboos are grown extensively which encourage the people to engage themselves in cottage industry such as bilao making, kaing, walai and bamboo crafts, aside from farming and fishing as the major sourcce of livelihood.
Thee municipality has also a wide range of communal waters in Lake Taal, wherein the seven barangays along the caost of Taal Lake are benefitted by catching fishes such as tawilis, muslo and maliputo..
GEOGRAPHY
Location: Southern lakeshore area of Taal Lake.
Total Land Area: 16.30 km2 (6.29 sq mi)
Coordinates: 13°53′15″N 120°58′09″E
ADJACENT PLACES / BOUNDARIES
Northeast – Taal Lake
Northwest – Municipality of San Nicolas, Batangas
West – Municipality of Taal, Batangas
East – Municipality of Alitagtag, Batangas
South – Municipality of San Luis, Batangas
CLIMATE
Like the rest of the Philippine Archipelago, a tropical climate, divided in to the all familiar dry and wet seasons exist in the Municipality. Climate is generally temperate with the whole of the country.
TOPOGRAPHY
The Municipality of Sta. Teresita is located in the southern lakeshore of Taal Lake and Southern Midslopes and volcanic plain area of Taal Calderra complex attaining an elevation of about 250 meters. The lakeshort is generally steep to moderate in slope I having low areas (Brgy. Saimsim) along the lake. The near shore ruins of the old Taal town site are partly submerged just 5 meters away from the present lake shore areas in Brgy. Calumala. Lake shore barangays (including Brgys. Tambo, Ibaba and Burol) are potential tsunami hazard zones in cases of a volcanic eruption within Taal Volcano Island that may include seichez (water oscillations due to ground shaking). No major landslide sections are reported along the steep slopes fronting Taal Lake in this towwn except for serious soil erosion along the road cut in Brgy. Calumala. Thiis is due to poor road drainage and maintenance aside from the inherent slope instability of the rroad alignment across a steep slope gradient.
Only flash flooding is repeated to occur durring heavy rainfall in the Poblacion proper towards Brgy. Bihis, as the floodwaters recede immediately through a natural creek drainage within 30 minutes. The Poblacion is located at the highest elevation of the municipality and is therefore impossible for a major flooding to occur in this area.
Barangays Calayaan, Pacifico and Sampa along the road to San Luis town are characterized by rolling to gently sloping terrain and drained by several creeks and gllies leading to San Luis towwn proper. Though this area is geologically stable (limited soil/sheet erosion), constraints on potential water pollution drainage ways due to development should also be made in citing any waste disposal area of the Municipality.
Sta. Teresita falls wwithin the Tephra (volcanic ash) airfall hazard zone of Taal Volcano.
SLOPES
Slope ranges from 0-3% to 15 and above. These are located at positions of Brgys. Calayaan, Irukan and Sampa.
SOILS
As per soils report by the Bureau of Soils for the Province of Batangas, the soil types of the Municipality is of the series namely: Taal and Lipa.
POPULATION
Rate as of 2007 census: 16,891 people in 2, 762 households
Density: 1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Last Updated: September 6, 2013
