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Poverty incidence of Davao del Sur 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 23.71 2009 24.83 2012 24.42 2015 19.02 2018 11.78 2021 7.20 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Art and culture The colorful artistic heritage of Davao stems from the rich culture of its tribes. For the Bagobos, aesthetics is the meticulous carving of weapons; the elaborate decoration of inlaid metal boxes with bells; and the ...
The word Maguindanao or Magindanaw means "people of the flood plains", from the word Magi'inged that means "people or citizen" and danaw that means "lake or marsh". Thus Maguindanao or Magindanaw can also be translated as "people of the lake", identical to their close neighbors, the Maranao and Iranun. These three groups speak related languages ...
Spouse. Mercedes Chan Cagas. Children. Marc Douglas Cagas IV. Douglas "Dodo" R.A. Cagas (December 3, 1943 – June 10, 2021) was a Filipino politician and a representative of the first district of the Philippine province of Davao del Sur. He later served as governor of Davao del Sur from 2007 to 2013 and again from 2016 until his death.
The Municipality of Trinidad in the then-undivided Davao province, created in 1948, was renamed as the Municipality of Jose Abad Santos in his honor in 1955. The municipality was later included in Davao del Sur in 1967 and in Davao Occidental in 2013. Abad Santos Avenue, a city street in Tondo, Manila, was renamed in his honor in 1955.
Digos Conventual Priory. St. Benedict's Conventual Priory, Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines, is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien. Established in 1983 at the request of Bishop Generoso Camiña of the Diocese of Digos, the monastery is currently home to 21 monks.
BRP Davao del Sur at Exercise RIMPAC 2018. BRP Davao del Sur (LD-602) is the second ship of the Tarlac-class landing platform dock of the Philippine Navy. [1] She is the second ship to be named after the Philippine province of Davao del Sur, one of the main provinces in Mindanao in Southern Philippines. She was launched on 29 September 2016 [2 ...
Santa Cruz situates in the Northern part of Davao del Sur. Bounded by Davao City on the north and south by the city of Digos. After undergoing several political subdivisions, 27,960 hectares of land was left representing 6.7% of the total land area of Davao del Sur. Forest land comprises 60% and the rest includes the 8 coastal barangays in the ...
Majority. Davao del Sur's at-large congressional district is the sole congressional district of the Philippines in the province of Davao del Sur. It was originally created by the 1967 division of the old Davao province and was eliminated following the 1972 abolition of the House of Representatives. [3] [4] The district was restored as a plural ...