Minglanilla

Father Sanchez, Minglanilla's first parish priest, is credited as the founder of the town in 1858. The roads and bridges were built by the same Fr. Sanchez together with Fr. Magaz. There were a number of capitanes who headed the town during the Spanish era. The first capitan was Hilario Castañares. During the American regime the first was Canuto Larrobis. The first elected municipal mayor was Gregorio de la Calzada.

Buat was the former name of Minglanilla. It was the place where early settlers dried (buad/buat) their sea catches. But in 1858, it was renamed by Fr. Sanchez after a municipality called Minglanilla in Castilla–La Mancha, Spain.

The town suffered setbacks, among them during the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1898 when insurrectos burned down its municipal building and looted many houses. This event is remembered by a street named 18 de Julio (July 18). In 1942, its poblacion was razed to the ground by the Japanese in retaliation for the presence of the guerrillas in the town.

Minglanilla is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Cebu City. It is bounded southwest by Naga; northwest by Toledo; northeast by Talisay; and southeast by the Bohol Strait. Its land area is 65.6 km² (25.3 sq mi).

Barangays

Minglanilla municipal hall

Minglanilla is politically subdivided into 19 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.

PSGC	Barangay	Population			±% p.a.
		2020[3]		2010[7]
072232001	Cadulawan	3.5%	5,321	3,986	▴	2.93%
072232002	Calajo‑an	7.7%	11,583	10,181	▴	1.30%
072232003	Camp 7	1.7%	2,571	2,279	▴	1.21%
072232004	Camp 8	1.2%	1,798	1,946	▾	−0.79%
072232005	Cuanos	1.9%	2,809	2,499	▴	1.18%
072232006	Guindaruhan	2.3%	3,503	2,707	▴	2.61%
072232007	Linao (Linao-Lipata)	8.6%	12,943	11,432	▴	1.25%
072232008	Manduang	1.4%	2,147	1,968	▴	0.87%
072232009	Pakigne	8.4%	12,644	11,463	▴	0.99%
072232010	Poblacion Ward 1	1.4%	2,087	1,987	▴	0.49%
072232011	Poblacion Ward 2	2.2%	3,254	2,950	▴	0.99%
072232012	Poblacion Ward 3	1.9%	2,884	2,765	▴	0.42%
072232013	Poblacion Ward 4	3.2%	4,767	3,650	▴	2.71%
072232014	Tubod	3.7%	5,626	4,666	▴	1.89%
072232015	Tulay	7.5%	11,286	9,775	▴	1.45%
072232016	Tunghaan	9.4%	14,187	13,389	▴	0.58%
072232019	Tungkil	8.7%	13,109	10,789	▴	1.97%
072232017	Tungkop	7.3%	11,003	7,589	▴	3.78%
072232018	Vito	5.7%	8,613	7,157	▴	1.87%
	Total		151,002	113,178	▴	2.92%

Minglanilla is a part of the Cebu metropolitan area.

It is primarily a residential town, with most of its population commuting to Cebu City for work. Owing to its close location to Cebu City, which is only 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away from the municipality, it hosts many subdivisions.

Prior to its suburbanization, Minglanilla's primary industry were agriculture and fishing. However, since the 2000s, when the municipality saw developments trickle down from Cebu City due to the city's own economic boom, the municipality has shifted into having a more service-driven economy.

Anjo World Theme Park is located in Barangay Calajo-an. It is the first amusement park in Cebu, and is located in the larger Belmont One development, which hosts a supermarket, a hardware, restaurants, among other retail components, also located within Barangay Calajo-an.[19][20]

The Minglanilla Techno-Business Park is a 100 hectares (1.0 km²) development which will be built on reclaimed land along the coast of the municipality's Tulay and Calajo-an barangays. It is envisioned primarily to host light industries, but also to other mixed-use developments as well, and is scheduled for completion by 2024.[21][22]

The Cebu South Port is a 5 hectares expandable port development in Minglanilla, Cebu that can accommodate ocean-going Panamax Vessels. It has a 182 TEU slot container yard complemented by a fleet of handling equipment for faster receiving and releasing of containers.[23]

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