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HISTORY

The Municipality of Daet is a treasure trove of history of Bicol Region. The obscurity about the origin of Daet has unblemished when the Second Edition book about the history of Daet was published in 2009. The book was entitled DAET: Kabikolan's Bulwark of Nationalism authored by renowned historian, Dr. Danilo Madrid Gerona.

Based on the book, Daet was created as "Doctrina" in 1583 during the Franciscan Mission. In one theory, the name of Daet came from the word "dait-dait", meaning clusters. Unfortunately, no artifactual nor linguistic evidence is available to support this belief. Fray Marcos de Lisboa's sixteenth century Bicol-Spanish dictionary offers a promising area of research into the obscure toponymic system of the ancient Bikolanos. According to his dictionary entitled "Vocabulario de la Lengua Vicol" the term daet and bila is synonymous which both mean "to make friends" or "to be reconciled". But the word ceased to be use at the time of Spanish conquest and the word bila, according to Lisboa, assumed wider circulation.

For more History of Daet… please see the copy of the book Daet: Kabikolan's Bulwark of Nationalism by Dr. Danilo Madrid Gerona

LOCATION

Approximately 365 kilometers southwest of Metro Manila and eight hours drive by bus or forty-five minutes trip by plane, the municipality, is located in the northern portion of Region V or Bicol Region.

It is bounded in the east by Mercedes; in the south by Basud; in southwest by San Lorenzo Ruiz; in the north by Pacific Ocean; in the west by San Vicente and northwest by Talisay.

LAND AREA

The town is the second smallest municipality in Camarines Norte in terms of land area. It has a total land area of 5,861 hectares with various land uses such as: residential, commercial, agricultural, and miscellaneous use. The area is divided into 25 barangays with 161 puroks. As per DENR-LMB certification dated September 19, 2008 its total land area is 4,600 hectares. (46 sq. kilometers).

DEMOGRAPHY

Population - 94,184 (NSO, 2007)

Annual growth rate - 2.16%

LANGUAGE

Bicol, Tagalog and English

ECONOMY

Municipal Class - First Class Municipality

Poverty threshold - P 30, 936.00/year (2006)

Employment rate - 95.5% (2005 CBMS Survey)