Also known as: Lalawigan sang Capiz
Capiz is a province in Region VI (Western Visayas). Population 835K (PSA 2024 census), 1 city + 16 municipalities, 473 barangays total, land area 2,594.64 km². Provincial capital: Roxas City.
Capiz is a province in Region VI (Western Visayas). Its capital is Roxas City.
Capiz had 835,098 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Capiz covers 2,594.64 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Capiz has 1 component city and 16 municipalities (17 LGUs under the province), per PSA's Philippine Standard Geographic Code (2Q 2026), and 473 barangays.
Capiz's 1 component city is Roxas City. Its 16 municipalities are Cuartero, Dao, Dumalag, Dumarao, Ivisan, Jamindan, Ma-ayon, Mambusao, Panay, Panitan, Pilar, Pontevedra, President Roxas, Sapi-an, Sigma and Tapaz.
Capiz genuinely leads the country in one specific metric: it is the Philippines' top milkfish (bangus) producing province, at nearly 72,000 metric tons in 2024, on the strength of over 16,000 hectares of brackish-water fishponds. That real distinction sits alongside a more marketing-driven claim — Roxas City's branding as the national 'Seafood Capital,' which a Capiz State University study found doesn't fully hold up once every fishery category is weighed, not just milkfish.
Key industries: Aquaculture (the Philippines' top milkfish/bangus-producing province), Agriculture (rice and corn), Capiz shell handicrafts, Tourism
Land-use planning at the provincial level is thin on public documentation: Nova Gov could not confirm the province has a current PDPFP, and Capiz is also the one province in this batch that has not passed SGLG in either of the last two assessed years. What does exist at the municipal level: Tapaz enacted an integrated zoning ordinance covering 2020-2029. Roxas City itself is named for President Manuel Roxas, born there in 1892 when the town still shared the province's name; it was renamed in his honor in 1951. The capiz shell (Placuna placenta), source of the traditional 'capiz windows' seen across Philippine colonial architecture, takes its common name from the province.
Key industries: Aquaculture (the Philippines' top milkfish/bangus-producing province), Agriculture (rice and corn), Capiz shell handicrafts, Tourism
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A province that leads the country in one real, verifiable metric (bangus production) but has no current provincial development plan on public record and hasn't passed SGLG in two straight cycles is exactly the gap a Nova Gov pilot is built to close — not by claiming credit for aquaculture, but by giving the PPDO a working baseline it currently seems not to have.
No current provincial development plan on public record, and two straight missed SGLG cycles -- Capiz's planning office has real gaps to close. A Nova Gov pilot starts with a working CLUP/SGLG baseline across all 17 LGUs.
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