Santo Niño, South Cotabato

Santo Niño, or officially Municipality of Santo Niño, is a third class municipality in the province of South Cotabato, Philippines. According to the, it has a population of people.GeographySituated in the fertile Allah Valley, it is the smallest municipality by land area in the province.It is bounded by the Municipality of Norala (its mother-town) in the north, the Municipality of Surallah in the east, Allah River and the Municipality of Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat in the south, and the Municipality of Isulan, Sultan Kudarat in the west.ClimateAverage temperature in the municipality ranges from a low of to a high of throughout the year.Precipitation can be low during the dry season (March to April) at about while it can be high especially during the wetter months (May to July) at.BarangaysSto. Niño is politically subdivided into 10 barangays. Ambalgan Guinsang-an (Bo.4) Katipunan (Bo.11) Manuel Roxas (Bo.10) New Panay (Bo.9) Poblacion (Bo. 13) San Isidro (Bo. 12) San Vicente (Bo. 5) Teresita SajanebaHistoryThe municipality's name was derived from its patron saint, the “Sto. Niño”, or the Holy Child. It was formerly called Barrio Trece (13) (although many still called the town proper this name) of the Norala Settlement District of then National Land Settlement Administration.