', officially the ', is a of the Philippines| in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people. The municipality was named after the Portuguese surname of the maritime explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Formerly part of Butuan, Magallanes was created as a municipality on June 21, 1969, through Republic Act 5660.
Geography
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the has a land area of constituting of the total area of Agusan del Norte. The topography of the land is mostly flat and rolling, surrounded by mountains. Swamps characterize much of the landscape that is situated at the mouth of the two major rivers in the province, the Agusan and Baug Rivers. The elevation of most of lands is below sea level. The town center is in the river delta and has to be kept protected by dikes. The land gradually rises in the north-west to the high Mount Taod-oy at barangay Taod-oy and the high Mount Panaytayon. Around of Magallanes lands have slope of 0 to 3 percent, have 8 to 18 percent, 18 to 30 percent and 30 to 50 percent. Hydrosol, San Miguel Loam, San Miguel Clay Loam, Malalag Silt Loam and Butuan Loam are its soil types. Upper Miocene, Cretaceous-Paleogene and recent sedimentary materials are the rock elements that make up Magallanes lands.
Land use
Of its total land area, are classified as alienable and disposable. The other are forestlands. or 3 percent is built-up, of that for social facilities and the other for roads. Around or 64.33 percent of its lands are utilized for agriculture, the other or 33.20 percent, for forest use. Four hectares are also being utilized for tourism in special use. Within the agricultural area, are under CARP coverage.
Climate
Magallanes is generally outside the "typhoon belt". Its climate is, by Philippine classification, Type II. There is no definite dry season in the area. Maximum rain is from November to January. Lying within the eastern coast, the place is within the pathway north-east monsoons, trade winds and storms.
Barangays
Magallanes is politically subdivided into eight barangays.
The town has two plywood manufacturing firms: EMCO and PSPI, and one safety matches manufacturing firm: JAKA Equities Corp. The three manufacturing plants are all on the main street and operating near the Baug River and Agusan River. A of prawn/shrimp farm in Magallanes used to be the Philippines' top exporter of first class prawn/shrimp to Japan, until the entire farm was hit by a white spot disease in 2001 leading to the collapse of the industry.
Attractions
;Philippine Centennial Tree: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources awarded Magallanes as the place that host the Oldest Tree in the Philippines called Bitaug. ;Lisagan Festival: Magallanes celebrates its annual fiesta every third Saturday of October in honor of patroness Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Our Lady of the Rosary, which includes thanksgiving mass, parades and more. ;Magellan Shrine: Located at Poblacion near the Municipal Hall, the shrine was the site of the 'first' Catholic mass in Mindanao on April 8, 1521. It was believed that the Magellan's Cross in Cebu was also erected here by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his men before they sail North. Evidence showed church ruins near the Agusan River. ;Agusan River: The Agusan River is the widest and navigable river in Mindanao.
PAL Express and Cebu Pacific have daily flights from Manila to Butuan and v.v. Cebu-Butuan-Cebu flights via Cebu Pacific scheduled Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and PAL.
There are several major shipping lines serving the Manila and Cebu routes namely: 2Go, Cokaliong, and PSACC. The boat ride from Butuan to Magallanes, navigating the Agusan River, takes about 45 minutes.
Land
Bachelor Express and PhilTranCo is the dominant public land transport from Manila and Tacloban passing Surigao, Cabadbaran and Butuan to Cagayan de Oro and Davao. The publicmode of transportation within the municipality is by motorcabs and pedicabs. Passenger vans commonly known as V-Hire are also available for Butuan routes.
