Municipality in Samar, Philippines

Santa Rita

Santa Rita, officially the Municipality of Santa Rita, is a municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines.

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Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City → Santa Rita
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Bacolod City → Santa Rita
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Legazpi → Santa Rita
17592 km · quickest by air, 27h 22m · ₱79,670–123,490
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The field note

What is in and around Santa Rita, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Santa Rita has

NScheduled flightsnearest airport CEB is 165 km away
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 8 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
YFerriesVillareal, 13 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Panalanoy, 23 km.

11.452°, 124.941°

According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 42,397 people.

How locals move

Getting around Santa Rita the local way

Get inFrom San Fernando and Guagua, there are jeepneys servicing downtown Santa Rita and its subsidiary barangay of Dila-dila, on the boundary with Porac.
Get inThe town is also a stopover along the Porac-Guagua jeepney route.

From Wikivoyage: Santa Rita, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Patrickroque01 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.