Naawan, officially the Municipality of Naawan, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 21,213 people.[3]
Naawan is recognized nationally as one of the most beautiful towns in the country; and was once declared the cleanest town of the Philippines in 2008.[4]
In 1957, the barrio of Naawan, then part of Initao, was constituted into the town of Naawan.[5]
Naawan is politically subdivided into 10 barangays.
• Don Pedro
• Linangkayan
• Lubilan
• Mapulog
• Maputi
• Mat-i
• Patag
• Poblacion
• Tagbalogo
• Tuboran
• Population census of Naawan
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1960 6,305 —
1970 8,718 +3.29%
1975 10,068 +2.93%
1980 12,215 +3.94%
1990 13,345 +0.89%
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1995 14,578 +1.67%
2000 16,173 +2.25%
2007 17,988 +1.48%
2010 18,895 +1.81%
2015 21,213 +2.23%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[3][6][7][8]
In the 2015 census, the population of Naawan was 21,213 people,[3] with a density of 240 inhabitants per square kilometre or 620 inhabitants per square mile.
Naawan is home to the Mindanao State University at Naawan campus, a unit of the Mindanao State University System. MSU-Naawan started out as a science field laboratory of the university's Main Campus in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur in the 1960s and 70s. It was later upgraded as a research arm and with the collaboration of the Mindanao State University College of Fisheries, officially opened the School of Marine Fisheries Technology in 1981, graduating its first batch of university graduates in 1985. As an autonomous external campus and distinct unit of the University System, it took the name MSU-Institute of Fisheries Research & Development and directly supervised the 'original' Naawan High School (later called MSU-Naawan Fisheries High School) and presently known as MSU-N Integrated Developmental School (MSU-N-IDS).
The Naawan Central School etched a mark in the national scene when its children's choir won the top prize in NAMCYA Children's Choir Finals at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1987[9]
Naawan in Province of Misamis Oriental (Northern Mindanao) with it's 3,643 inhabitants is located in Philippines about 481 mi (or 775 km) south-east of Manila, the country's capital.
Local time in Naawan is now 12:12 PM (Wednesday). The local timezone is named Asia / Manila with an UTC offset of 8 hours. We know of 10 airports in the wider vicinity of Naawan, of which two are larger airports. The closest airport in Philippines is Iligan Airport in a distance of 22 mi (or 35 km), South. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Manticao, Initao, Lugait, Gitagum and Iligan. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info. Let's start with some photos from the area.
Naawan also has many tourist spot. one of them is the SAIS Family Pool is a Spring Pool in Mountain area.
The entrance fee cost P20.00 for adults and P15.00 for kids.
Their big cottages costs P200.00 (2009 prices)
There were two pools — one for the kids and one for adults.
The adult’s pool is 5 – 6 ft deep.
Can be reached by habal-habal from Naawan Poblacion.
