Tagum, Davao Del Norte Etymology

Jack Maico
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There is no official record on the meaning of Tagum, but a legend explains how the name Magugpo came about. In the beginning, Magugpo was nothing but a vast wilderness, inhabited by the Mansakas, Manguangans, Mandayas, and the Kalagans in the coastal barangays. The name Magugpo was derived from the native word mago, a name of a certain tree, and the word ugpo means very high. According to the story, the natives were occupying a river basin inside the thickly covered forest where they could not even see the sun. The creek where the natives dwelt still exists, but once-abundant fresh water is now dead, unfortunately, due to pollution.

Source: http://tagumcity.50webs.com/history.html

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The Diocese of Tagum (Latin: Dioecesis Tagamna) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines.[2] It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Davao. It was canonically erected as Prelature Nullius on January 13, 1962, by Pope John XXIII, with Joseph Regan M.M. as its local ordinary. It was elevated to the status of a diocese on October 11, 1980, by Pope John Paul II, who appointed Pedro Dean as its first Filipino bishop ordinary and Ramon Villena as the auxiliary bishop.

The diocesan territory comprises the entire civil provinces of Davao del Norte (except the city of Samal, the southern portion of the Lasang River) and Davao de Oro.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Tagum

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐦 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

Tagum's role as an important center for various activities made it the capital town of the newly established province of Davao del Norte in 1967, when the whole of Davao was finally divided into three provinces: del Norte, del Sur, and Oriental.

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐦: