Santa, Ilocos Sur
Santa | |
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| Municipality of Santa | |
View of Santa | |
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Flag Seal | |
| Nicknames: Gateway to the Cordilleras; Virgen Catalina de Alexandria | |
| Motto: Paspas Santa! (Faster Santa!) | |
| Anthem: Santa March | |
Map of Ilocos Sur with Santa highlighted | |
Interactive map of Santa | |
Santa Location within the Philippines | |
| Coordinates: 17°29′10″N 120°26′04″E / 17.486042°N 120.434444°E | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Region | Ilocos Region |
| Province | Ilocos Sur |
| District | 2nd district |
| Founded | 1576 |
| Barangays | 26 (see Barangays) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Sangguniang Bayan |
| • Mayor | Jesus B. Bueno Jr. |
| • Vice Mayor | Jeremy Jesus D. Bueno III |
| • Representative | Kristine Singson-Meehan |
| • Municipal Council | Members |
| • Electorate | 10,477 voters (2025) |
| Area | |
• Total | 109.10 km2 (42.12 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 72 m (236 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 624 m (2,047 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2024 census) | |
• Total | 15,164 |
| • Density | 138.99/km2 (359.99/sq mi) |
| • Households | 3,661 |
| Demonym | Santanian |
| Economy | |
| • Income class | 4th municipal income class |
| • Poverty incidence | 10.4 |
| • Revenue | ₱ 225.6 million (2022) |
| • Assets | ₱ 687.5 million (2022) |
| • Expenditure | ₱ 112.3 million (2022) |
| • Liabilities | ₱ 13.28 million (2022) |
| Service provider | |
| • Electricity | Ilocos Sur Electric Cooperative (ISECO) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (PST) |
| ZIP code | 2703 |
| PSGC | |
| IDD : area code | +63 (0)77 |
| Native languages | Ilocano Tagalog |
| Website | www |
Santa, officially the Municipality of Santa (Ilocano: Ili ti Santa; Filipino: Bayan ng Santa), is a municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 15,164 people.
Owing to Santa's natural topography (the ridge of Mount Tetas de Santa to the east; the winding Abra River and delta to the north and northwest; and the South China Sea to the west), then Governor-General of the Philippines Theodore Roosevelt Jr. on his visit in 1925 exclaimed: “The mountain in the east, the winding roping river in the north, and the immense sea in the west make Santa a poetic town.”