CastillaSorsogon

VISION

A SUSTAINABLY PROGRESSIVE

PEACEFUL, SELF-DIRECTING AND POLITICALLY-WILLED

CASTILLA WITH GOD-LOVING

PRODUCTIVE AND SELF-RELIANT PEOPLE

WORKING IN A BROADENED ECONOMIC HORIZON

AND UNITED BY AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE.

MISSION

TO PURSUE A WHOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF CASTILLA

IN AN ECOLOGICALLY-SOUND ENVIRONMENT

THROUGH THE CONVERGENT EFFORTS

IN THE PROVISION OF QUALITY BASIC SERVICES

AND EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

Castilla Tourism

Municipal Tourism Plan of Castilla

Tourism Attraction

Castilla vaunts of bountiful rootcrop harvest eversince Cumadcad was still called kilometro 29. Our forefathers have depended on rootcrops as their basic source of livelihoods in spite of the existence of other agricultural produce like the coconut, banana, peanuts, pili and other fruit bearing plants. Due to the location of the municipality which is midway of the provinces of Albay and Sorsogon makes Castilla vulnerable to the hazard of typhoons every time it hits Albay or Sorsogon. Hence, Castillanos have relied on these short-term rootcrops to augment the lost of produce from copra, pili and others.

As church practice or ritual of thanksgiving for good harvest, the parishioners/community members which were mostly farmers were encourage to put up booths in the church grounds for a special thanksgiving celebrations which is popularly called “Tinagba” where they place their products which is mostly rootcrops and its by-products for display and after the mass, the parish priest would bless community and the products. After the blessing, the parishioners would usually offer the best to the church and sell the rest to others.

Unod Festival

Geology

A study conducted by Mines and Geoscience Bureau (MGB) of the DENR would show that about 60% of the Province of Sorsogon is underlain by igneous rocks and the remaining 40% by rocks of sedimentary origin.

Development Constraint

The core development constriants in the Municipality of Castilla are degrated of upland, lowland, coastal and marine resources.

Location

Castilla which is hemmed in by hills, mountains, the 750-hectare PNOC forest reserve area on the north, and the Sorsogon Bay on the southern/eastern portion, occupies the western part of the Province of Sorsogon.

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Municipal Profile

The Municipality of Castilla, Sorsogon is situated between 12º50’17” to 13º02’35” north latitude and between 123º43’58” to 123º52’56” east longitude. It is bounded on the west by the Municipality of Pilar, on the North by the Municipality of Manito, Albay, on the South by the Sorsogon Bay, and on the East by the City of Sorsogon. Castilla is about 38 kilometers South of Legazpi and 22 kilometers west of the City of Sorsogon.

Based on the Municipal Survey of 2008, the Municipality of Castilla has a population of 53,909. The total number of household is 10,781 and the total number of families is 11,231 that are spread over the total land area of 18,620.30 hectares of the municipality. The population density is about 2.89 persons per hectare and the population growth rate in 2000 to 2008 was computed at 0.83%.

Primarily, the Municipality of Castilla is an agricultural area with 14, 749 hectares or 79.21 % of its total land area are devoted to crop production, while almost 60% of the municipality’s agricultural area is planted with coconut and 20% are planted to rice. Large tracts of lands are also planted with root crops especially cassava and sweet potatoes and the rest are planted with cash crops.

Castilla is divided into 34 barangays. Thirteen (13) of the 34 barangays are coastal and the rest are upland and lowland. Aside from Poblacion, there are two (2) barangays considered as urbanizing. These are Cumadcad and Macalaya and the rest are classified as rural barangays.

Barangay Cumadcad is the major commercial center of the municipality where the bulk of commercial establishments are located. Commercial activities in barangay Poblacion has somewhat slowed down with the transfer of the seat of local government to Barangay Cumadcad for easy accessibility and better public service delivery. Castilla has not fully tapped its industrial potentials. There are three (3) existing industries which are poultry farms, classified as small scale. The LGU also run Organic Fertilizer Plant and the Small Scale Feedmill is now operational. While Malamauan Island, Fish Sanctuary and Marine Reserve, Sagurong Spring, Castilla Pearl Farm and Nasipit River are the potential tourist eco-destinations of the municipality once fully developed.

Castilla falls under Type II climate characterized by short dry season but pronounced maximum rainfall from November to January.

The Municipality has a varied and distinctively irregular topographic landscape. While the northern and southern portion along the coast was mountainous and hilly, the rest is flat to rolling lands. Likewise, Castilla has only 1 type of soil, the Castilla clay loam suited to planting palay, corn, various root crops, abaca, coconut, and fruit bearing trees.

It has an estimated fishing ground of about 925 hectares in Sorsogon Bay. Commercial fishes caught are those of small pelagics and hard as well as soft bottom demersals. It is found to be abundant with valuable species of shrimps, crabs and shellfishes.

The protection forest of Castilla is within the PNOC Geothermal Reserve and has 2,178.62 hectares coverage.

The Municipality of Castilla is likewise traversed by high voltage transmission lines coming from PNOC-EDC, Bacon-Manito and Leyte Geothermal Plants, forming the Luzon grid.