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| Subdivision Name: | Philippines | ||
| Subdivision Type1: | Region | ||
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| Established Title: | Founded | ||
| Established Date: | 1877 | ||
| Parts Type: | Barangays | ||
| Parts Style: | para | ||
| P1: | (see Barangays) | ||
| Leader Name: | Freddie D. Domingo | ||
| Leader Title1: | Vice Mayor | ||
| Leader Name1: | John Paul Balmores | ||
| Leader Name2: | Jaime D. Cojuangco | ||
| Leader Title3: | Councilor | ||
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Pura, officially the Municipality of Pura (Pangasinan: Baley na Pura; Iloko: Ili ti Pura; Tagalog: Bayan ng Pura), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,781 people.
Pura is located at the northeastern part of Tarlac, surrounded by the municipalities of Ramos to the north, Victoria to the south, Gerona to the west, and Guimba in Nueva Ecija to the east. It is from the provincial capital Tarlac City, from Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) in Angeles City, and north of Manila.
Pura has a total land area 3142ha which represents 1.02% of the entire provincial area. It comprises 16 barangays of which barangays Poblacion 1, 2, and 3 are considered urban area and the rest are considered rural. The land area per barangay is shown in the table below.
It is one of the exits of the Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEX).
The Municipality of Pura is plain, slope-less.
The soil series of Pura are light brownish gray to heavy black granular surface soil. When dry, they are hard and compact and break into big clogs. The subsoil is brownish to nearby black columns to coarse granular clay loam. The municipality of Pura has two (2) distinct soil types: Luisita fine sand loam and Pura clay loam.
Pura, just like any other town in the province of the Tarlac has two (2) pronounced seasons. The wet season that starts from May up to lasts up to September and dry from the month of October to April. This type of climate is typically hot, humid, and tropical and is generally affected by the neighboring topography and prevalent wind direction that varies within the year. Tropical monsoon is carried into the area from the southeast in the month of May to September thereby causing heavy rainfall in the area. Most of the rainfalls are associated with typhoons.
Pura is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
In the 2020 census, the population of Pura, Tarlac, was 25,781 people, with a density of NaNPD/km2NaNPD/km2.
Municipality of Pura consists of 4 public secondary schools, 1 private secondary school, 15 public primary and elementary schools, and 4 private elementary schools namely: