Tangub City
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| Location of Tangub City in the Misamis Occidental Province | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Region : | Northern Mindanao | ||
| Province : | Misamis Occidental | ||
| Barangays : | 55 | ||
| District: | 2. District of Misamis Occidental | ||
| PSGC : | 104215000 | ||
| Income class : | 3rd income bracket | ||
| Households : | 9480 May 1, 2000 census
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| Population : | 63.011 August 1, 2015 census
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| Population density : | 445.2 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Area : | 141.54 km² | ||
| Coordinates : | 8 ° 4 ′ N , 123 ° 45 ′ E | ||
| Postal code : | 7204 | ||
| Area code : | +63 88 | ||
| Mayor : | Jennifer Wee Tan | ||
| Website: | tangubcity.gov.ph | ||
| Geographical location in the Philippines | |||
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Tangub is one of the city and is located on the island of Mindanao in the Philippine province of Misamis Occidental .
Tangub is nicknamed the Christmas Symbols Capital of Mindanao (“Capital of the Christian symbols of Mindanao”) because the city is festively decorated, decorated and illuminated, especially in the months leading up to Christmas.
Origin of name
The name Tangub is derived from the word Tangkob from the language of the indigenous people of the Subanon and describes a large bamboo basket for storing rice.
When a group of Spaniards explored the place, they found a dead man. The Subanon who were with him told the soldiers that the man had been bitten by a snake that was sitting in the rice basket when he wanted to see if there was still rice in him. The Spaniards, who did not understand a word of the dialect, then reported about a man who had been found dead in Tangkub . From then on the place was first called Tangob. Over the years the "o" was replaced by a "u" and changed to the current name.
geography
Tangub City is located in the southern part of the Misamis Occidental Province . It is flanked by the municipality of Bonifacio in the west, the Bay of Panguil in the south and the city of Ozamis City in the north. In the northwest a tip of the urban area protrudes into the municipality of Don Victoriano Chiongbian and in the southeast it borders on the province of Zamboanga del Sur . In the north is the 2,411 m high Mount Malindang .
Mainly coconut is grown in the urban area , approx. 62% of the total land area is taken up by coconut, maize and rice fields . In addition, fishing is a major economic factor.
Barangays
Tangub City is politically divided into 55 barangays .
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history
The original inhabitants were the Subanon people, who populated most of northern Mindanao. The name Subano is derived from the word Suba (river), as the indigenous people settled along the rivers of the region. Later, more and more Christian settlers came from the nearby islands of Bohol and Cebu across the Mindanao Sea and settled along the Bay of Panguil.
The place Tangub was first a Barrio of Misamis, today Ozamis City . The strong influx of settlers in the 1920s called for the town to be transformed into a village and thus an administrative municipality.
Around 1929, sixty-four months after Tangub was named a parish by an order of the American Governor-General Dwight Filley Davis , the first steps towards obtaining city rights began. First, Tangub was split off from its mother church, Misamis. The new municipality Tangub included all the barrios of today's municipality Bonifacio, which at that time still bore the name Digson. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , Bonifacio was itself an administrative municipality and separated from Tangub.
Through the use of Congressman William Chiongbian, Tangub became a notarized city on June 17, 1967 with Republic Act No. 5136, the third in the Misamis Occidental Province and the 50th in the Philippines . However, the city anniversary will not be celebrated until February 28th.
Attractions
- The City Hall of Tangub City
- The urban area during the Christmas season.