Placer, Masbate
', officially the ', is a of the Philippines| in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.
By virtue of Republic Act No. 292, passed on June 16, 1948, the barrio of Placer was constituted as its own municipality, separate from Cataingan. At the time of its creation, Placer included the entire present-day municipality of Esperanza, which was then a barrio of Placer. It is one of the only two municipalities in Masbate which is dominantly Cebuano-speaking, the other being the adjacent municipality of Esperanza; Esperanza separated from Placer in 1959.Barangays
Placer is politically subdivided into 35 barangays.Climate
Demographics
In the, the population of Placer, Masbate, was people, with a density of.
