Kabacan

Kabacan officially the Municipality of Kabacan (Maguindanaon: Inged nu Kabakan, Jawi: ايڠد نو كباكن; Ilocano: Ili ti Kabacan; Hiligaynon: Banwa sang Kabacan; Cebuano: Lungsod sa Kabacan; Tagalog: Bayan ng Kabacan), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cotabato, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 77,164 people.[3]

Kabacan
Municipality
Municipality of Kabacan
Kabacan bus terminal
Kabacan bus terminal
Flag of Kabacan
Flag
Official seal of Kabacan
Seal
Nicknames: 
  • Heart of Cotabato
  • Crossroads of Mindanao
Map of Cotabato with Kabacan highlighted
Map of Cotabato with Kabacan highlighted
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Kabacan is located in Philippines
Kabacan
Kabacan
Location within the Philippines
Coordinates: 7°07′N 124°49′E
CountryPhilippines
RegionSoccsksargen
ProvinceCotabato
District 3rd district
FoundedAugust 18, 1947
Barangays24 (see Barangays)
Government
 [1]
 • TypeSangguniang Bayan
 • MayorEvangeline Pascua-Guzman
 • Vice MayorHerlo P. Guzman, Jr
 • RepresentativeJose I. Tejada
 • Electorate49,303 voters (2022)
Area
[2]
 • Total330.92 km2 (127.77 sq mi)
Elevation
21 m (69 ft)
Highest elevation
47 m (154 ft)
Lowest elevation
8 m (26 ft)
Population
 (2020 census)[3]
 • Total77,164
 • Density230/km2 (600/sq mi)
 • 
17,891
DemonymKabaqueño/a
Economy
 • Income class1st municipal income class
 • Poverty incidence
24.20
% (2018)[4]
 • Revenue₱ 343.2 million (2020)
 • Assets₱ 592.1 million (2020)
 • Expenditure₱ 300.7 million (2020)
 • Liabilities₱ 124.7 million (2020)
Service provider
 • ElectricityCotabato Electric Cooperative (COTELCO)
Time zoneUTC+8 (PST)
ZIP code
9407
PSGC
124703000
IDD : area code +63 (0)64
Native languagesHiligaynon
Cebuano
Maguindanao
Ilianen
Tagalog
Websitekabacan.gov.ph

The town is predominantly composed of rice farms made possible by the influx of Ilocano-speaking people from northern Philippines. The University of Southern Mindanao is in Kabacan. It is strategically located between the cities of Cotabato and Davao from west to east and the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan from the north and General Santos from the south.

History

Kabacan got its name from the word "ka-abacan" which means the source of abundance.[5] People from far-flung barangays used to come to this place and, upon returning home, they brought with them many commodities of their livelihood.

The municipality of Kabacan was a barrio of the municipal district of Pikit before its creation as a district political body. It was created as a regular municipality by virtue of Executive Order No. 82 dated August 18, 1947, issued by President Manuel Roxas of the Republic of the Philippines.[5]

Growth was gradual under the domain of Datu Mantawil; that influx of settlers from Luzon and Visayas arrived in the 1930s. This was made so when the McLareen family sold its hacienda to Jose Yulo Alano, Rafael Alunan and party who organize a company under the cooperate name of Rio Grande Estate. The company became the people's place of business and social center. Recognizing his immense power and leadership over the area, the provincial governor of Cotabato organizes the Kabacan into a Municipal District with Datu Mantawil its first mayor in 1935.

World War II

After the Japanese landing on Davao, the Miura Detachment then proceeded to advance towards Kabacan but had to struggle fighting the remaining Filipino-American resistance. Soon, they succeed in capturing Kabacan on May 3, 1942.

The Rio Grande Rubber Estate was sold by the Filipino Incorporators to the Japanese Imperial Government. It became the site for the provisional municipal government with Cenon Doctolero as the appointed mayor. The Japanese garrison was attacked October 25, 1942, by guerrilla forces under U.S. Lieut. Col. Wendell Fertig. During a fourteen-day siege sixty-eight of the seventy-six Japanese garrison were killed. Only the arrival of reinforcements saved the garrison and caused the guerrillas to withdraw.[6]

Currently, Kabacan is known as an Ilocano-speaking area since 65% of its population are Ilocano immigrants.

Geography

Kabacan is centrally located in Cotabato province, bounded on the north by Pres. Roxas, on the east by Matalam, on the south by M'lang, and on the west by Carmen, Cotabato and Datu Montawal. It is approximately 94 kilometres (58 mi) from Cotabato airport, 194 kilometres (121 mi) to Davao airport and 188 kilometres (117 mi) to General Santos International Airport.

The landscape is characterized by almost regular landscape of flat terrain. The high mountains and rolling hills leaping close to the river plus the narrow plains have varied topographical features. Other features are moderately sloping and strongly sloping.

Bodies of Water

The Kabacan River is a tributary of the Pulangi River, discharging at Kayaga Kabacan, Cotabato.

Barangays

Kabacan is politically subdivided into 24 barangays. [7] Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios.

Note
  1. - 7 barangays in Kabacan forms part of the Special Geographic Area of Bangsamoro region despite Cotabato and Kabacan not being under the administrative jurisdiction of the autonomous region. It was partitioned from Soccsksargen following the two-part plebiscite held in January and February 2019. The Bangsamoro's Development Coordinating Office (DCO) oversees the barangays' affairs.[lower-roman 2]
  2. "BARMM creates office to administer 63 barangays in North Cotabato". bangsamoro.gov.ph. June 30, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2020.

Climate
Climate data for Kabacan, Cotabato
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 31
(88)		 32
(90)		 33
(91)		 33
(91)		 32
(90)		 31
(88)		 30
(86)		 31
(88)		 31
(88)		 31
(88)		 31
(88)		 31
(88)		 31
(89)
Average low °C (°F) 21
(70)		 21
(70)		 21
(70)		 22
(72)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 23
(73)		 22
(72)		 22
(72)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 19
(0.7)		 14
(0.6)		 15
(0.6)		 18
(0.7)		 33
(1.3)		 42
(1.7)		 44
(1.7)		 42
(1.7)		 30
(1.2)		 31
(1.2)		 28
(1.1)		 17
(0.7)		 333
(13.2)
Average rainy days 6.9 5.6 6.9 8.1 15.1 17.5 17.8 18.5 14.9 14.9 12.4 8.0 146.6
Source: Meteoblue[9]

Type B climate prevails in the municipality. It is characterized by dry season for one to three months with less than 76 millimeters or more rainfall per month throughout the year. The wettest month has more than three times the rainfall of the driest month. This type of climate is conducive to intensive rice cultivation and plantings of bananas and other fruit trees.

Demographics
Population census of Kabacan
YearPop.±% p.a.
1903 78—    
1918 5,394+32.63%
1939 8,659+2.28%
1948 13,119+4.72%
1960 21,043+4.02%
1970 22,769+0.79%
1975 39,378+11.61%
1980 43,443+1.98%
1990 50,601+1.54%
1995 61,481+3.72%
2000 61,998+0.18%
2007 73,991+2.47%
2010 81,282+3.48%
2015 89,161+1.78%
2020 77,164−2.80%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[10][11][12][13]
2020 Census count was revised as per PSA Board Resolution
No. 13 Series of 2021 adopted on November 9, 2021.[14][15]

In the 2020 census, the population of Kabacan, Cotabato, was 77,164 people,[3] with a density of 170 inhabitants per square kilometre or 440 inhabitants per square mile.

Economy
Poverty Incidence of Kabacan
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[16][17]
[18][19][20][21][22]

Commercial activities are in the Public Market and along the National Highway and USM Avenue. Kabacan serve as a business and trading center for the adjacent municipalities of Carmen, Pagagawan, Pikit and Matalam. The majority of the commercial establishments are engaged in general merchandising, sari-sari and dry goods. One big shopping center and drug store owned by a big company are along the National Highway. There are four banks and three gasoline stations.

Other small-scale industries are electronics and repair shop, car/motor vehicle body builder/repair shop, vulcanizing and machine shop, shoe and appliance repair shops hollow blocks/culvert making basket/mat weaving, dressmaking/tailoring, balut making, bakery and Mascovado factory in Barangay Malanduage.

Natural resources

Primarily agricultural crops include corn, rice, soybeans, peanut, mongo, cassava and other field crops. This town is popularly known as the "Rice Production Center", the "Rice Granary of the Province of Cotabato". Its populace has devoted most of its fertile domain to rice production. Corn is the secondary crop of this town.

Education
University of Southern Mindanao
Colleges and universities
High school
Elementary

Tourism
  • Pisan Cave at Pisan, Kabacan.
  • Waterfalls and spring at Tamped, Kabacan
  • Nangaan Cliff at Nangaan, Kabacan
  • Nangaan Caves and Waterfalls
  • Kabuling Waterfalls at Simbuhay, Kabacan
  • Simbuhay Waterfalls at Simbuhay, Kabacan
  • Matibuhaw Cave at Simbuhay, Kabacan
  • Kalasan Waterfalls at Pedtad, Kabacan
  • Crocodile Farm at Cuyapon, Kabacan
  • Garagan Spring Resort at Katidtuan, Kabacan
  • University of Southern Mindanao located at Kabacan town proper. A State University with research and training centers, open amphitheaters, sports facilities and pilot agricultural projects.
  • Waterland Resort at Osias, Kabacan

References
  1.  Municipality of Kabacan | (DILG)
  2. "2015 Census of Population, Report No. 3 – Population, Land Area, and Population Density" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. Quezon City, Philippines. August 2016. ISSN 0117-1453. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 25, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  3. Census of Population (2020). "Region XII (Soccsksargen)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  4. "PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Philippine Statistics Authority. December 15, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  5. "About". Local Government Unit of Kabacan. Archived from the original on January 2, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  6. Kent Holmes, Wendell Fertig and His Guerilla Forces in the Philippines: Fighting the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945 (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2015), p. 112.
  7. "Province: North Cotabato". PSGC Interactive. Quezon City, Philippines: Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  8. "An Act Changing the Name of Barrio of Banawa, in the Municipality of Kabagan, Province of Cotabato, to Banawag". LawPH.com. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
  9. "Kabacan: Average Temperatures and Rainfall". Meteoblue. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  10. Census of Population (2015). "Region XII (Soccsksargen)". Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  11. Census of Population and Housing (2010). "Region XII (Soccsksargen)" (PDF). Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. National Statistics Office. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  12. Censuses of Population (1903–2007). "Region XII (Soccsksargen)". Table 1. Population Enumerated in Various Censuses by Province/Highly Urbanized City: 1903 to 2007. National Statistics Office.
  13. "Province of North Cotabato". Municipality Population Data. Local Water Utilities Administration Research Division. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  14. Total Population, Household Population, Number of Households, and Average Household Size by Region, Province, and City/Municipality: Philippines, 2020. PSA. March 23, 2022.
  15. "PSA Board Resolution No. 13, Series of 2021: Approving and Adopting the Third Quarter 2021 Philippine Standard Geographic Code Updates to Include the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Barmm) and Correct the Names of 37 Barangays" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  16. "Poverty incidence (PI):". Philippine Statistics Authority. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  17. "Estimation of Local Poverty in the Philippines" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. November 29, 2005.
  18. "2003 City and Municipal Level Poverty Estimates" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. March 23, 2009.
  19. "City and Municipal Level Poverty Estimates; 2006 and 2009" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. August 3, 2012.
  20. "2012 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. May 31, 2016.
  21. "Municipal and City Level Small Area Poverty Estimates; 2009, 2012 and 2015". Philippine Statistics Authority. July 10, 2019.
  22. "PSA Releases the 2018 Municipal and City Level Poverty Estimates". Philippine Statistics Authority. December 15, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
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