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Cotabato City is the health care center of Central Mindanao catering both mainland of Bangsamoro Region and Central Mindanao, Soccsksargen regional hospital is situated in the city named as Cotabato Regional and Medical Center with its 600-bed capacity it has become the largest hospital in the entire region 12. Cotabato City also has 8 more ...
Cotabato, formerly and still commonly referred to as North Cotabato [a] and officially the Province of Cotabato, is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Soccsksargen region in Mindanao. Its capital is the city of Kidapawan, the most populous in the province.
Cotabato: Soccsksargen: City of Fruits After the city's fruit industry. Kidapawan is known for the Timpupo festival, a harvest festival showcasing locally grown fruits. [43] La Trinidad: Benguet: Cordillera Administrative Region: Strawberry Capital of the Philippines After the town's strawberry cultivation industry. [44] Salad Bowl of the ...
The region also shares a maritime border with Gorontalo and North Sulawesi provinces of Indonesia. The region has extensive coastlines, valleys and mountain ranges. Known for its river system, the region is the drainage basin of Mindanao, particularly at the Cotabato Basin, a large depression surrounded by mountain ranges on three sides.
The region's de facto seat of government was Cotabato City, although this self-governing city was outside its jurisdiction. The ARMM included the province of Shariff Kabunsuan from its creation in 2006 until July 16, 2008, when Shariff Kabunsuan ceased to exist as a province after the Supreme Court of the Philippines declared the "Muslim ...
The Bangsamoro Government Center, also known as the Bangsamoro Office, is a complex of government buildings in Cotabato City, Philippines. The complex serves as the office of the regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
Cotabato City derived from PC Hill, which historically was used as a fort by natives in the area. Cotabato City's name was derived from Kutang Bato or "stone fort". [5] In Maguindanaon, the hill is known as "Tantawan". [6] The hill linked to the history of Cotabato City's indigenous peoples (IPs), including the Teduray, Dulangan Manobo, and the ...
The ARMM was officially inaugurated on November 6, 1990, in Cotabato City, which was designated as its provisional capital. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) ceased to exist after a two-part 2019 plebiscite that ratified the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL).