Matnog , officially the Municipality of Matnog ( Waray Sorsogon : Bungto san Matnog ; Waray : Bungto han Matnog , Tagalog : Bayan ng Matnog ), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Sorsogon , Philippines and is the southernmost part of Luzon . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 41,989 people.
7-537: Matnog's port is one of the busiest in the region, playing host to millions of people crossing the San Bernardino Strait to Northern Samar annually. It is the jump off point to Visayas and vice versa. It is 65 kilometers (40 mi) from Sorsogon City and 646 kilometers (401 mi) from Manila . Local elders say that the name Matnog comes from the Bicol word " matonog ", which means very audible that describes
14-534: Is politically subdivided into 40 barangays . Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios . The native people that settled in Matnog are the Agta, Tabangon, and Cimaron Tribe. Poverty incidence of Matnog Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Transportation includes buses going to and from Metro Manila and Bulan and ferries going to and from Allen, Northern Samar . In order to spur development in
21-614: The Filipinas (as Samar and Leyte had been named by Villalobos), and on January 3, 1544 ran aground in the treacherous currents of the San Bernardino Strait "just as dozens of Spanish vessels were to do for the next three centuries". In order to guide ships traversing along the strait, the Capul Island Lighthouse was built from 1893 to 1896 under Francisco Perez Muñoz, following the designs of Guillermo Brockman in 1892. It
28-645: The little San Juan de Letran with a skeleton crew of only 20 men, logged more than 5,000 kilometres in Philippine waters, including those of the San Bernardino Strait, and the San Juanico Strait between Samar and Leyte . The San Juan also completely circumnavigated the island of Mindanao , then tried to reach Mexico but was blown back to the Marianas by a storm in the North Pacific . It made its way back to
35-427: The loud sound of the waves. Some attribute the name to the sound of the gong used by early chieftains to call council meetings, while others link it to the noise of the tidal rip in the San Bernardino Strait. In 1785, Matnog became a barrio of Bulusan , with Juan Evangelista serving as its first head. Fifteen years later, it was designated as Puerto Civil. It later became a separate parish on November 21, 1963. Matnog
42-520: The municipality, The Toll Regulatory Board declared Toll Road 5 the extension of South Luzon Expressway . A 420-kilometer (260 mi), four-lane expressway starting from the terminal point of the now under construction SLEX Toll Road 4 at Barangay Mayao in Lucena , Quezon, to Matnog, Sorsogon, near the Matnog Ferry Terminal. On August 25, 2020, San Miguel Corporation announced that they will invest
49-625: The project which will reduce travel time from Lucena to Matnog from 9 hours to 5.5 hours. San Bernardino Strait The San Bernardino Strait ( Filipino : Kipot ng San Bernardino ) is a strait in the Philippines , connecting the Samar Sea with the Philippine Sea . It separates the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon from Samar of Visayas . During an ill-fated expedition, only one ship,
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