Monkayo, Compostela Valley - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Monkayo is a 1st class municipality in the province of Compostela Valley, Philippines

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. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 90, 971 people. It has 21 barangays, with Mt. Diwata, having the biggest population of 16, 965 people. Monkayo is an agricultural town, with vast tracks of land planted to rice and banana. The municipality is also host to the gold-rich barangay of Mt. Diwata, popularly known as "Diwalwal" (which in the local dialect means one's tongue is hanging out due to exhaustion), a 1,000-meter high range known worldwide for its rich gold ore deposit. Monkayo's seat of government is located in barangay Poblacion, a highly-developed rural town center, and is 120 kilometers away from Mindanao's regional center of Davao City, and some 30 kilometers from Nabunturan, the provincial center.

Barangays

Monkayo is politically subdivided into 21 barangay

Barangay

A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...

Awao
Babag - a barangay of the municipality Monkayo, Compostela Valley in Davao Region with 3,298 residents by the end of 2008.
Banlag
Baylo
Casoon
Inambatan
Haguimitan
Macopa
Mamunga
Naboc - a barangay of the municipality of Monkayo in the province of Compostela Valley,Region XI,Mindanao Island, Philippines. Naboc had 3,500 residents at the end of year 2008. Naboc produces rubber,rice,corn,banana,coconut, and root crops like sweet potato and cassava. The barangay fiesta of Naboc is celebrated every 28th of August and its founding anniversary is celebrated every 22nd of March. The chief executive of the barangay is the Barangay Captain or Punong Barangay who leads the barangay council of eight (8) members.
Pasian (Santa Filomena)
Poblacion
Rizal
Salvacion
San Isidro
San Jose
Tubo-tubo (New Del Monte)
Olaycon
Upper Ulip
Union
Mount Diwata

Brief history

Monkayo, as a municipality was created by virtue of an Executive Order signed by the late President Ramon Magsaysay on Sept. 14, 1954.

The town's pre-World War II settlers were lumads, or indigenous peoples consisting of the so-called "Four Tribes"--the Mandayas, Dibabawons, Mansakas and Manobos.
These tribes dominated practically all of what is now Monkayo.

During World War II, the battle was fought in Monkayo by joint Filipino and American troops with the local guerrilla fighters against the Japanese Imperial forces.

Monkayo's development was spurred immediately after the liberation from Japanese invasion. And in the 1950s,abaca trade along the Agusan River flourished. Settlers from the Visayas and Luzon also came, as well as Chinese traders who established a trading post in the mouth of Agusan River along the delta of what is now called Barangay San Jose. Boats plied from Monkayo bringing goods to other trading centers along the Agusan River towards further north up to Butuan City.

The construction of the Davao-Agusan Daang Maharlika (Pan-Philippine Highway) further fast-tracked the town's development. More businesses came in, and the "motorboat economy" brought about by the trade along the Agusan River slowly vanished as overland travel from Davao City to Butuan City was enhanced. The road network shortened the travel time from Davao to Butuan and eventually to other key cities in Mindanao.

Industry

Major industries as of 2006:

Compostela Plantation, Inc.

Monkayo
Banana Exporter

Comval Tropical Fruit, Inc.

Monkayo
Banana Exporter

JB Mining Corporation