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The province of Davao Occidental is governed by a governor and a vice governor. The whole province is a lone congressional legislative district. [13] The municipality of Malita, the largest and most populous in the province, serves as the provincial capital and the place where the provincial officials of Davao Occidental convene.
Davao Region, formerly called Southern Mindanao (Cebuano: Rehiyon sa Dabaw; Filipino: Rehiyon ng Davao), is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region XI. [4] It is situated at the southeastern portion of Mindanao and comprises five provinces: Davao de Oro, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, and Davao Occidental.
Davao (de Oro, del Norte, del Sur, Occidental, and Oriental) Hispanicized form of the Bagobo word dabo , meaning "to fall", [ 41 ] alluding to the drop in elevation the river that now bears the name undergoes on its way from the slopes of Mount Apo to the sea.
This is a list of terms which are used, or have been used in the past, to designate the residents of specific provinces of the Philippines.These terms sometimes overlap with demonyms of ethnic groups in the Philippines, which are also used as identifiers in common parlance.
The province of Davao del Norte bore this name from 1972 to 1998, when Compostela Valley (now Davao de Oro) seceded as a separate province. Davao Occidental was created by virtue of Republic Act 10360 enacted on July 23, 2013; the province is the newest in the country, carved out from the southern part of Davao del Sur.
Prior to gaining separate representation, areas now under the jurisdiction of Davao Occidental were represented under the Department of Mindanao and Sulu (1917–1935), Davao Province (1935–1967), Region XI (1978–1984) and Davao del Sur (1967–1972; 1984–2016).
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Sarangani Island (now part of Davao Occidental) was named Antonia by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [citation needed] in 1543, in honor of Antonio de Mendoza y Pacheco, the viceroy of New Spain who had appointed López de Villalobos to lead an expedition to the Western Islands (now the Philippines) because of their relation by ...