| Image Caption: | Blanca Aurora Falls | ||
| Flag Size: | 120x80px | ||
| Seal Size: | 100x80px | ||
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| Pushpin Map: | Philippines | ||
| Pushpin Label Position: | right | ||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the | ||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||
| Subdivision Name: | Philippines | ||
| Subdivision Type1: | Region | ||
| Subdivision Type2: | Province | ||
| Named For: | Saint George | ||
| Subdivision Type3: | District | ||
| Established Title: | Founded | ||
| Established Date: | 1979 | ||
| Parts Type: | Barangays | ||
| Parts Style: | para | ||
| P1: | (see Barangays) | ||
| Leader Title: | Mayor | ||
| Leader Name: | Leoncio U. De Guia | ||
| Leader Title1: | Vice Mayor | ||
| Leader Name1: | Jay G. Bisnar | ||
| Leader Name2: | Stephen James Tan | ||
| Leader Title3: | Councilors | ||
| Leader Name4: | voters (electorate_point_in_time}}|) | ||
| Elevation Max M: | 839 | ||
| Elevation Min M: | 0 | ||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||
| Population Blank1 Title: | Households | ||
| Timezone: | PST | ||
| Utc Offset: | +8 | ||
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code | ||
| Demographics Type1: | Economy | ||
| Demographics1 Title2: | Poverty incidence | ||
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| Demographics1 Title3: | Revenue | ||
| Demographics1 Title4: | Revenue rank | ||
| Demographics1 Title5: | Assets | ||
| Demographics1 Title6: | Assets rank | ||
| Demographics1 Title7: | IRA | ||
| Demographics1 Title8: | IRA rank | ||
| Demographics1 Title9: | Expenditure | ||
| Demographics1 Title10: | Liabilities | ||
| Demographics Type2: | Service provider | ||
| Demographics2 Title1: | Electricity | ||
| Demographics2 Title2: | Water | ||
| Demographics2 Title3: | Telecommunications | ||
| Demographics2 Title4: | Cable TV | ||
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Native languages | ||
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Crime index | ||
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | Major religions | ||
| Blank2 Name Sec2: | Feast date | ||
| Blank3 Name Sec2: | Catholic diocese | ||
| Blank4 Name Sec2: | Patron saint | ||
San Jorge, officially the Municipality of San Jorge (war|Bungto han San Jorge; tl|Bayan ng San Jorge), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,579 people.
The town is famous for its Blanca Aurora Falls near Barangay Blanca Aurora along the Blanca Aurora river. An inauguration is held every 10 October since 1979.
Due to farming abundancy here in San Jorge, they proclaimed Saint George as their Patron Saint and because it happened that the name were similar to a historical person named George Curn.
The community is one of the oldest barangay of municipality of Gandara. Its history can be traced back to the American regime. Even its name San Jorge was in honor of an American soldier by the name of George Curn who happened to own and donate the site where the old barangay was formerly located. The present location is the second site of the barangay. Its old site was located across the Sapinit River where the San Jorge Elementary School is presently nestled.
The municipality of San Jorge was established by virtue of Batas Pambansa Blg. 11 issued on December 6, 1978, upon separation of 29 barangays in Gandara, with a barangay with the same name the seat of government.[1] A plebiscite was held on February 4, 1979.[2] The result had been vetoed until 1985 to 1986. (citation needed)
San Jorge is divided into 41 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
Two mountainside slope rolling down to the San Jorge National High School and a Gasoline Station were observed to be a potential flood prone areas, developer and planning engineers constructed a Rectangular Culvert alongside the 1 AH 26 Sleeves going to the San Jorge River.With a vast water shed area just below the municipality of San Jose de Buan, San Jorge area is really a drainage area in times of rainy season. In a matter of two consecutive days rain, flood waters automatically rumbles down the slopes going to the lowland areas from Buenavista, Bulao, La Paz, Mombon, San Jorge Proper, Erenas then directly towards the low-lying areas of the town of Gandara then to the town of Pagsanghan and the samar sea finally. Areas like the barangays of Buenavista, Janipon, Bulao, Guindapunan, La Paz, Mombon, and Anquiana could be soaked for a couple of days which usually leads to destruction of standing crops in the lowlands. These are usually rice, corn, vegetables and other crops in the flat lands.
An underwater (Creek) Pipes are to be installed from Tumogbong (Binubukalan) will be connected directly to main Village of Blanca Aurora to keep the beauty of the old Falls of Blanca.
Blanca village is above the Tidal Level (20 meters) as seen on the Blanca Aurora Falls, the pipelines runs above the Village streets, this installation were a Vacuum type installation, towners ask and wonder why they have to make the faucet always be open, and the answer is the type of hydraulic design they got from JICA.
There is another planned development and business of the Town of Saint George, it is by supplying the town of Gandera a potable water, the highest elevation that will encounter is 268 meters below Tomogbong and 6 Kilometers distance pipelines.