Pura, Tarlac


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Geography

The municipality of Pura is located at the northeastern part of the Province of Tarlac, surrounded by the municipalities of Ramos, Victoria, Gerona, and Guimba in Nueva Ecija. It is about from the provincial capital Tarlac City, from the regional center San Fernando, Pampanga, from Clark Special Economic Zone in Angeles City, and north of Manila.
Pura has a total land area 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 exits of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway.

Topography

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 distinct soil types: Luisita fine sand loam and Pura clay loam.

Climate

Pura, just like any other town in the province of the Tarlac has two 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.

Barangays

Pura is politically subdivided into 16 barangays.
In the, the population of Pura, Tarlac, was people, with a density of.

Economy

Municipality of Pura is consist of 3 public secondary schools, 1 private secondary school and 9 public elementary schools namely: