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This name was created as a combination of three natural wonders: Mount Apo, durian, and waling-waling. Also an important event in Davao that brings together friends and families. In 1988, the festival was officially named "Kadayawan Festival" [7] [8] by then Mayor (now former Philippine President) Rodrigo Duterte.
The building is a six-storey structure that adapts a mimetic architecture, taking inspiration from a Durian- one of Davao's identifiers. [2] The construction started in 2021 in collaboration with the City Government of Davao and was to reported to have cost around ₱300 Million Philippine Pesos. [3]
Davao City Hall building, Davao City: Filipino November 17, 2012 Ohta Kyozaburo: Structure Monument Established Ohta Development Company, the first abaca company by the Japanese in the Philippines. Mintal, Davao City Filipino August 25, 2003 Port Sta. Ana Site Site First port used by the first Japanese agricultural workers of Davao.
Mary Jean Lastimosa – Miss Universe Philippines 2014 and Top 10 Finalist in the Miss Universe 2014 pageant held in Doral, Florida. A native of Tulunan, North Cotabato, Lastimosa studied and resided in Davao City. She won Mutya ng Dabaw (Miss Davao) and was crowned Reyna ng Aliwan in 2008 representing Davao and the Kadayawan Festival.
Davao was among the first cities in the Philippines to be occupied by Japanese troops in 1942. There were organized guerrilla resistance in Mindanao afterwards, the most prominent one commanded by Wendell W. Fertig, and were largely successful in tying down Japanese units in the island long before the liberation of Philippines began in 1944.
On August 13, 1989, 16 inmates at the Davao Metropolitan District Command Center (Davao Metrodiscom), who had previously escaped from the Davao Penal Colony, captured 15 members of a Protestant group, the Joyful Assembly of God. The inmates were part of the prison gang called the Wild Boys of DaPeCol, led by Felipe Pugoy and Mohammad Nazir ...
Datu Mama Bago (1770 – March 15, 1850) (Maguindanaon pronunciation: [daːtʊ maːma baguː]; Jawi:دات مام بڠو) was the Datu of Davao Gulf from 1830 till his death 1850, serving as vassal under the Sultanate of Buayan. [1]
At least 474 people were involved in the rescue operation, [5] mostly from units of the Philippine Army, the Bureau of Fire Protection, the Philippine Coast Guard, local government agencies and Apex Mining. [13] Sniffer dogs were also deployed to look for victims. [14]