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Cotabato Lungsod ng Kutabato Independent-Component City
City of Cotabato
Mindanao River at Cotabato City
Seal
Nickname(s): Stone Fortress of Mindanao
Map of Maguindanao showing the location of Cotabato City.
Cotabato
Location in the Philippines
Coordinates:713N 12415E / 7.217N 124.25ECoordinates: 713N 12415E / 7.217N 124.25E
Country
Philippines
Region
SOCCSKSARGEN (Region XII)
Province
Maguindanao/Cotabato
District
Lone District of Maguindanao
Capital of Maguindanao Sultanate
1520
Founding of Pueblo de Cotabato 1862 Cityhood FounderBarangays
June 20, 1959
Shariff Muhammad Kabunsuan
37
Government
Mayor Vice-MayorArea
Japal "JoJo" Guiani
Mus Sema
Total
176.00 km2 (67.95 sq mi)
Population (2010)
Total Density
271,786
1,500/km2 (4,000/sq mi)
Time zone
PHT (UTC+8)
ZIP Code
9600
Income class
3rd class city (as of June 30, 2010)
Website
Official website
The City of Cotabato (Malay: Kotabatu) is one of the cities of the Philippines located in Mindanao. Cotabato City is an exclave of the SOCCSKSARGEN region found within the boundaries of Maguindanaoprovince, but is independent of that province. Cotabato City is distinct from and should not be confused with the province of Cotabato. Cotabato's population was about 271,786 in 2010 census.
Contents1 History
2 Geography
3 Economy
4 Government
4.1 Political rivalries
4.2 Barangays
5 Climate
6 Income Classification
7 Tourist attractions
8 Malls around the City
9 Cotabato City Officials
9.1 Congresswoman
9.2 City Mayor
9.3 City Vice Mayor
9.4 City Councilors
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
History
Sultan Dipatuan Kudarat, the ruler ofMaguindanao Sultanate, is known to have eventually conquered all of Mindanao during his reign. He made Cotabato the capital of his expanding empire.
Cotabato City had witnessed more history than any other place in Mindanao. Its history dates back to the 15th century when Shariff Kabunsuan, an Arab missionary, landed along the banks of the Rio Grande de Mindanao and introduced Islam to the natives. Islam was the faith that moved the early settlers to communal life, and to establish the Sultanate of Maguindanao with its golden age ushered in by Sultan Dipatuan Qudarat during the 17th century the time when Cotabato City developed as the capital town of Maguindanao.
In the nineteenth century, when Sultan Makakua ruled, roads and wharfs were constructed which gave rise to the birth of modern day Cotabato. However, the then Municipality of Cotabato was first organized at the later part of the 19th century when the Spaniards established a military post at what is now Barangay Tamontaka, one of the earliest Christian settlements founded south of the Phiippines. Cotabato was then officially founded in 1862 when the Pueblo de Cotabato was established; Christianity was introduced in the area in around the year 1870.
Americans arrived in Mindanao in 1900 after the Spanish-American War ended in 1898. Cotabato town was part of Moro Province and of Department of Mindanao and Sulu from 1903 to 1920, when the Empire Province of Cotabato, referred to as "Moroland" by the Americans, was founded with the town as the capital, with Datu Piang, known as the Grand Old Man of Cotabato, as its first governor.
Several towns were carved off from Cotabato town beginning in the year 1936, with Dulawan (now Datu Piang, Maguindanao) and Midsayap being the first ones which were incorporated as regular municipalities.
In 1942, at the beginning of the Pacific Front of World War II, the Japanese Imperial forces entered what is now Maguindanao province. In 1945, Maguindanao was liberated by allied Philippine Commonwealth troops and Muslim Maguindanaoan guerrilla units after defeating the Japanese Imperial forces in the Battle of Maguindanao during the Second World War.
Several towns were carved off from Cotabato town since the year 1913, with Pikit being the first one founded by Cebuano Christian colonists. Dulawan (now Datu Piang, Maguindanao) and Midsayap were incorporated as towns in 1936. In August 18, 1947, just two years after the Second World War and a year after the official inauguration of Philippine independence, the number of towns in the gigantic Cotabato province were multiplied, namely: Kidapawan, Pagalungan, Buayan, Marbel, Parang, Nuling, Dinaig, Lebak, Buluan, Kiamba, and Cabacan, a total of eleven (11) towns added to the previous four towns; the newly-founded towns of Kabuntalan, Pikit (conversion as regular municipality), and Glan added up in September 30, 1949. More and more newly-created towns added up in the province's number of towns as the province entered the second half of the 20th century.
On July 1, 1950, the then Municipality of Cotabato was made first class municipality under Executive Order No. 466. Nine years later, it became a city on July 10, 1959, and on June 20, 1959 it was officially created into a chartered city by virtue of Republic Act No. 2364.
During the beginning of the 1950s up to the mid-1970s, Cotabato City was by far the second largest and most progressive city in Mindanao, after Davao City, with its population of more than 200,000 people residing in the city that time. However, mass insurgencies and much disorder between Christians and local Muslims in the region, began in the mid-1960 during the Marcos administration, capitulated into the city's economic decline, so the provincial government moved its permanent capital to Pagalungan in 1967 to avoid internal strife in the city. This made the city mostly isolated to other important economic centers in Mindanao.
When the Empire Province of Cotabato was dissolved 1967, the city used to be part of the newlyfounded North Cotabato province until 1973; since then the city was the administrative center of the ARMM. However, the city broke off administratively from Maguindanao as it rejoined SOCCSKSARGEN in the 1990s. Now many sources consider the city as part of the present North Cotabato Province, although statistically it is still considered part of Maguindanao.
GeographyCotabato is approximately 698.9 nautical miles (1294 km) from Manila, the country's capital, and is bounded by the municipalities of Sultan Kudarat to the northwith Rio Grande de Mindanao separating the two Kabuntalan to the east, and Datu Odin Sinsuat to the south. The city faces Illana Bay, part of the Moro Gulf, to the west. Cotabato City has a total land area of 176.0 square kilometers.
Economy
The city currently serves as the center for economic support activities (trade and finance), education and other support services such as social, physical, cultural and other basic services of Central Mindanao.
GovernmentCotabato City is the regional center of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) but the city is actually part of the SOCCSKSARGEN region, sometimes grouped with Cotabato in some sources,1and does not belong to the ARMM.
Political rivalriesThis city has been a home for numerous political feuds resulting to assassinations, killings and bombings. The present Mayor JoJo Guiani and six of his family and allies are being investigated after an ambush to his rival, Vice Mayor Mus Sema, who served three terms as a mayor prior to his Vice Mayoralty and is being rumored to run next election and according to police reports, this is the reason of his ambush which he survived .
BarangaysCotabato City is politically subdivided into 37 barangays.
Bagua
Poblacion IV
Rosary Heights VIII
Bagua II
Poblacion V
Rosary Heights IX
Kalanganan
Poblacion VI
Rosary Heights X
Poblacion
Poblacion VII
Rosary Heights XI
Rosary Heights Poblacion VIII
Rosary Heights XII
Bagua I
Poblacion IX
Rosary Heights XIII
Bagua II
Rosary Heights I
Tamontaka I
Bagua III
Rosary Heights II
Tamontaka II
Kalanganan I
Rosary Heights III Tamontaka III
Kalanganan II Rosary Heights IV Tamontaka IV
Poblacion I
Rosary Heights V
Tamontaka V
Poblacion II
Rosary Heights VI Tamontaka VI
Poblacion III
Rosary Heights VII
Climate
e data for Cotabato City
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
ge high C (F)
32 (90)
32 (90)
33 (91)
33 (91)
33 (91)
32 (90)
32 (90)
31 (88)
32 (90)
32 (90)
32 (90)
32 (90)
32 (90)
ge low C (F)
21 (70)
21 (70)
21 (70)
22 (72)
22 (72)
22 (72)
22 (72)
22 (72)
22 (72)
22 (72)
22 (72)
21 (70)
22 (72)
pitation mm (inches)
60 (2.36)
80 (3.15)
90 (3.54)
120 (4.72)
230 (9.06)
220 (8.66)
220 (8.66)
320 (12.6)
240 (9.45)
250 (9.84)
170 (6.69)
90 (3.54)
2,160 (85.04
Weatherbase.com
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Income ClassificationCotabato City is average income in a year is approximately PHP 400m or more. Cotabato City is a 1st class
city.
Tourist attractionsRio Grande de Mindanao. The second largest river in the Philippines and the longest in Mindanao crisscrossing, with its tributary, the city's vast area. Estimated to be 182 kilometers long and 96 meters wide. Water sports and boat racing are the popular attractions of the river, usually held to coincide with the Shariff Kabunsuan Festival and the Feast of Hariraya Puasa.
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Masjid The largest mosque in the Philippines
Tamontaka Church Built in 1872 of Spanish architecture and design. It is the oldest church in the city, a relic of the living past.
Lourdes Grotto A replica of Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in France. The compound is equipped with a retreat house for recollection and seminars, a mini zoo and a children's park.
Kutang Bato Caves The only cave in the country that is right in the heart of the city. Its various entrances, all within traffic a rarity that can only be had in the "Heart of Mindanao". These caves were also the source of the city's present name for "Kuta" means "Fort" and "Bato" means "Stone" hence the name "Fort of Stone" which later on became Cotabato.
Old Cotabato City Hall A century old structure which houses almost all of the city government offices. It showcases the architectural design of the Maguindanaon Art.
Takumi Butai Memorial Shrine A monument in honor of Takumi Butai and the Japanese soldiers who died here during the Second World War. Takumi was the Provincial Commander of the Japanese forces assigned in Cotabato City. Before he died, he requested that some of his ashes be buried in Cotabato City. This shrine was put up by the Lion's Club of Kyoto, Japan in cooperation with the City Government of Cotabato.
Malls around the CitySouth Seas Mall Cotabato - the first shopping mall in the city.
Cotabato City OfficialsCongresswoman
Hon. Bai Sandra A. Sema
City MayorHon. Japal J. Guiani Jr.
City Vice MayorHon. Muslimin G. Sema
City CouncilorsHon. Graham Nazer G. Dumama
Hon. Eduardo C. Rabago
Hon. Marino R. Ridao
Hon. Wilfrido H. Bueno
Hon. Abdullah A. Andang
Hon. Madatu B. Datumanong
Hon. Froilan R. Melendrez
Hon. Florante L. Formento
Hon. Sukarno G. Sema
Hon. Kusin S. Taha
Hon. Abdillah J. Lim
Hon. Aeyresc Japal G. Sayadi
Hon. Jainal Abidin
See alsoMindanao
Cagayan de Oro
References^ Local Governance Performance Management System
^ "Historical Weather for Cotabato, Soccsargen, Philippines". http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=64789&refer=&units=metric&cityna me=Cotabato-Soccsksargen-Philippines. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
External linksSangguniang Panlungsod of Cotabato City Website
All About Cotabato City
Philippine Standard Geographic Code
2007 Philippine Census Information
Cotabato City
The Mindanao Examiner Newspaper
NSCB details for cotabato city geographic code
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