Prieto Diaz, officially the Municipality of Prieto Diaz, is a municipality in the Philippine province of Sorsogon. In the 2020 census, it had a populati…
Prieto Diaz, officially the Municipality of Prieto Diaz, is a municipality in the Philippine province of Sorsogon. In the 2020 census, it had a population of 22,644 people. The town of Prieto Diaz was once a Visita of the old municipality of Bacon. The town was given its present name from the surnames of the two Bicolano martyrs, Father Gabriel Prieto and Father Severino Diaz, when it became independent from the municipality of Bacon, on October 12, 1903, by virtue of Act 940 of the Philippine Commission. Prieto Diaz was the only town organized after Sorsogon became a province, on October 17, 1894.
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