Tabuk, Kalinga
Encyclopedia
Tabuk is a city
and the capital of the province of Kalinga
in the Philippines
. It borders with the town of Pinukpuk
in the north and the town of Rizal
in the northeast. On its westernmost section it shares border with the towns of Pasil
and Lubuagan
. On the southwest it borders with the town of Tanudan
. Tabuk City is a border city of Kalinga
with the provinces of Isabela
and Mountain Province
. In the east, it is bordered by the town of Quezon
, Isabela which is about 20 kilometers from the city center and the town of Paracelis
, Mountain Province on the south.
According to the latest census made in 2007, it has a population of 87,912 people.
The former municipal district of Tabuk was transformed into a regular municipality by Republic Act No. 533, approved June 16, 1950.
Tabuk became the Cordillera’s second city after Baguio
on June 23, 2007, when 17,060 voters ratified Republic Act No. 9404, An Act Converting the Municipality of Tabuk into a Component City of the Province of Kalinga to be Known as the City of Tabuk. In November 2008, the full bench of the Supreme Court of the Philippines declared Republic Act 9404 unconstitutional, reverting Tabuk to the status of a municipality.
On December 10, 2008, Tabuk and the other 15 cities affected, informally known as the League of 16, filed a motion for reconsideration with the Supreme Court. More than a year later, on December 22, 2009, acting on said appeal, the Court reversed its earlier ruling as it ruled that "at the end of the day, the passage of the amendatory law (regarding the criteria for cityhood as set by Congress) is no different from the enactment of a law, i.e., the cityhood laws specifically exempting a particular political subdivision from the criteria earlier mentioned. Congress, in enacting the exempting law/s, effectively decreased the already codified indicators." As such, the cityhood status of Tabuk is effectively restored.
But on August 24, 2010, in a 16-page resolution, the Supreme Court
reinstated its November 18, 2008 decision striking down the Cityhood laws making Tabuk a municipality again.
Voting 7-6, with two justices not taking part, the SC reinstated its Nov. 18, 2008 decision declaring as unconstitutional the Republic Acts (RAs) converting 16 municipalities into cities again.
On February 15, 2011, the supreme court upheld for the 3rd time the cityhood of Tabuk and 15 other towns in the Philippines.
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Posted by: Shamgar Mangida
Tabuk was once called the “Valley of Gamonangs”, the Kalinga tribe who had dominated Northern Kalinga some centuries ago, as written one of the early Spanish missionaries. As related by elders, this tribe was not only hostile but also malevolent to other tribes. This antagonistic and hostile attitude of the Gamonangs provoke the anger of the southern Kalinga tribes who later joined forces and began attacking the Gamonangs.
Tribal wars came in unabated. The invasion by the allied tribes upon the Gamonangs left many dead in the battlefield. Soon, a terrible epidemic followed which almost wiped out the Gamonang tribe. Those who escaped death were believed to have fled to the southeastern hills bordering the provinces of Isabella and the old Mountain Province.
Since then, the valley become a “NO MAN’S LAND”. The Kalingas dreaded living in the valley. They superstitiously felt safe high up in the mountains and hills surrounding the valley. This left the valley to the dear, wild hogs, wild horses, wild dogs and wild carabaos.
Repopulation of the place began sometime shortly the First World War. Then Lieutenant Governor Walter F. Hale sent six volunteer pioneers to re-inhabitant the place. Three of these came from sitio Tobog while three others were selected from Lubuagan who failed after suffering from malaria. That left only the settlers from Tobog who started tilling the soil at Laya under the leadership of Gullit, father of the late Captain Baac and grandfather of Arsenio Baac. Their relatives from Tobog later joined these first settlers.
Between 1922 and 1923, the second group of settlers came from Bontoc, during the time of John C. Early, well known Provincial Governor and Division Superintendent of Schools of the old Mountain Province. Twenty-five homesteaders recruited from Samuki, Bontoc decided to settle and formed the Bontoc colony at a place now known as Barangay Bantay. They suffered malaria but they held on and become a thriving Bontoc Village.
With an effort to push forward the colonization of the area, despite the appalling mortality of the Bontoc colony, the provincial Government at Bontoc tried another colony at Tuga. Volunteers from Cervantes, Ilocos Sur were brought in, they were supplied with the necessary farm tools including mosquito nets and kitchen utensils. A certain Allo Caparas, a graduate of the Constabulary Academy of Baguio Hospital, Vicente Buslig from Apayao was sent to took after the health of these settlers.
Inspired by their success in the settlement at Tuga, the Cervantes settlers crossed the Chico Rivers eastward, right into the heart of the fertile valley. Fructoso Gallema and
Inocencio Candeleria headed the group. They found a living spring with fresh potable water. They settled near this spring and were later joined by settlers from Sigay, Ilocos Sur, led by Leon Bangisan and Pedro Balacang.
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Thereafter, other pioneers came in headed by Francisco Viloria who settled an Appas, who was followed by Lauro Arizala from Zambales. Abraham Omao from Lubuagan chose to settle in Bulanao. Their harvest were abundant; the hills offered them plenty of venison and pork from the wild hogs. The creeks were full of fish, and lobster. However, there were no roads and no markets for these products-Malaria casualities depleted their number, but the pioneers held on.
The dawn of the new era for Tabuk was more than assured with the coming of the Bureau the sprawling valley and found Tabuk to contain a series of plains from Laya to Balong on the first valley, Ipil and Bulanao on the eastern plateau. Further eastward across the hills, there another plateau of Callagdao and southwest of Agbannawag. The execution of the government subdivision of the dedicated surveyors, Mr. Edrelin, Mr. Ela, and Mr. Antonio Pizzaro are always well remembered by the settlers who came in waves to establish their homes in this great valley.
Tabuk name Tabuk evolved from the wo0rd “TOBOG”, the name of a living stream with cool and fresh water flowing from Sitio Paligatto in Barangay Balawag down to the Chico River. The areas traversed by this stream were also called TOBOG.
Tabuk is now a fifth class city with an income of P110,414,133.00 in 2007. it is prominently considered as the rice where it supplies other places. The city has also produced outstanding farmers at the national level for the last decades.
The city is also the site of the proposed Regional Agro-Industrial Center which aims to further develop the city and make it the agro-industrial center of the region. The city is likewise working to become the only component of the Cordillera in the near future.
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Cities of the Philippines
A city is a tier of local government in the Philippines. All Philippine cities are chartered cities, whose existence as corporate and administrative entities is governed by their own specific charters in addition to the Local Government Code of 1991, which specifies the administrative structure...
and the capital of the province of Kalinga
Kalinga
Kalinga is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Tabuk and borders Mountain Province to the south, Abra to the west, Isabela to the east, Cagayan to the northeast, and Apayao to the north...
in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. It borders with the town of Pinukpuk
Pinukpuk, Kalinga
Pinukpuk is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Kalinga, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 27,783 people in 4,586 households.It is located in the northern part of Kalinga province which is a gate entering to Tuao, Cagayan to COnner,...
in the north and the town of Rizal
Rizal, Kalinga
Rizal is a 4th class municipality in the province of Kalinga, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 14,614 people in 2,594 households.-Barangays:...
in the northeast. On its westernmost section it shares border with the towns of Pasil
Pasil, Kalinga
Pasil is a 5th class municipality in the province of Kalinga, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 10,084 people in 1,576 households.-Barangays:Pasil is politically subdivided into 14 barangays.* Ableg* Balatoc...
and Lubuagan
Lubuagan, Kalinga
Lubuagan is a 4th class municipality in the province of Kalinga, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 10,183. According to the 2000 census there are 1,764 households...
. On the southwest it borders with the town of Tanudan
Tanudan, Kalinga
Tanudan is a 4th class municipality in the province of Kalinga, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 8,119 people in 1,472 households...
. Tabuk City is a border city of Kalinga
Kalinga
Kalinga is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Tabuk and borders Mountain Province to the south, Abra to the west, Isabela to the east, Cagayan to the northeast, and Apayao to the north...
with the provinces of Isabela
Isabela
-Places:* Isabela, Puerto Rico* Isabela Island of the Galápagos Islands* La Isabela in the Dominican Republic, first settlement of Columbus in the New World* Isabela , Philippines* Isabela City, Basilan, Philippines...
and Mountain Province
Mountain Province
Mountain Province is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc and borders, clockwise from the south, Ifugao, Benguet, Ilocos Sur, Abra, Kalinga, and Isabela.Mountain Province is sometimes incorrectly named Mountain in some...
. In the east, it is bordered by the town of Quezon
Quezon, Isabela
Quezon is a fourth class landlocked municipality in the province of Isabela, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 22,050 people in 3,887 households. Quezon is a border town of Isabela with the province of Kalinga...
, Isabela which is about 20 kilometers from the city center and the town of Paracelis
Paracelis, Mountain Province
Paracelis is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Mountain Province, Philippines. Paracelis is a border town of Mountain Province where it shares border with city of Tabuk and the town of Tanudan, Kalinga in the north and the towns of Quezon, and Mallig in the northeast and Roxas, Isabela in...
, Mountain Province on the south.
According to the latest census made in 2007, it has a population of 87,912 people.
History
- Early Beginning
The former municipal district of Tabuk was transformed into a regular municipality by Republic Act No. 533, approved June 16, 1950.
- Cityhood
Tabuk became the Cordillera’s second city after Baguio
Baguio City
The City of Baguio is a highly urbanized city in northern Luzon in the Philippines. Baguio City was established by Americans in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as Kafagway...
on June 23, 2007, when 17,060 voters ratified Republic Act No. 9404, An Act Converting the Municipality of Tabuk into a Component City of the Province of Kalinga to be Known as the City of Tabuk. In November 2008, the full bench of the Supreme Court of the Philippines declared Republic Act 9404 unconstitutional, reverting Tabuk to the status of a municipality.
On December 10, 2008, Tabuk and the other 15 cities affected, informally known as the League of 16, filed a motion for reconsideration with the Supreme Court. More than a year later, on December 22, 2009, acting on said appeal, the Court reversed its earlier ruling as it ruled that "at the end of the day, the passage of the amendatory law (regarding the criteria for cityhood as set by Congress) is no different from the enactment of a law, i.e., the cityhood laws specifically exempting a particular political subdivision from the criteria earlier mentioned. Congress, in enacting the exempting law/s, effectively decreased the already codified indicators." As such, the cityhood status of Tabuk is effectively restored.
But on August 24, 2010, in a 16-page resolution, the Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the Philippines
The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the Philippines' highest judicial court, as well as the court of last resort. The court consists of 14 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice...
reinstated its November 18, 2008 decision striking down the Cityhood laws making Tabuk a municipality again.
Voting 7-6, with two justices not taking part, the SC reinstated its Nov. 18, 2008 decision declaring as unconstitutional the Republic Acts (RAs) converting 16 municipalities into cities again.
On February 15, 2011, the supreme court upheld for the 3rd time the cityhood of Tabuk and 15 other towns in the Philippines.
Barangays
Tabuk is politically subdivided into 42 barangayBarangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
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LEGEND OF TABUK
Legend of TABUKPosted by: Shamgar Mangida
Tabuk was once called the “Valley of Gamonangs”, the Kalinga tribe who had dominated Northern Kalinga some centuries ago, as written one of the early Spanish missionaries. As related by elders, this tribe was not only hostile but also malevolent to other tribes. This antagonistic and hostile attitude of the Gamonangs provoke the anger of the southern Kalinga tribes who later joined forces and began attacking the Gamonangs.
Tribal wars came in unabated. The invasion by the allied tribes upon the Gamonangs left many dead in the battlefield. Soon, a terrible epidemic followed which almost wiped out the Gamonang tribe. Those who escaped death were believed to have fled to the southeastern hills bordering the provinces of Isabella and the old Mountain Province.
Since then, the valley become a “NO MAN’S LAND”. The Kalingas dreaded living in the valley. They superstitiously felt safe high up in the mountains and hills surrounding the valley. This left the valley to the dear, wild hogs, wild horses, wild dogs and wild carabaos.
Repopulation of the place began sometime shortly the First World War. Then Lieutenant Governor Walter F. Hale sent six volunteer pioneers to re-inhabitant the place. Three of these came from sitio Tobog while three others were selected from Lubuagan who failed after suffering from malaria. That left only the settlers from Tobog who started tilling the soil at Laya under the leadership of Gullit, father of the late Captain Baac and grandfather of Arsenio Baac. Their relatives from Tobog later joined these first settlers.
Between 1922 and 1923, the second group of settlers came from Bontoc, during the time of John C. Early, well known Provincial Governor and Division Superintendent of Schools of the old Mountain Province. Twenty-five homesteaders recruited from Samuki, Bontoc decided to settle and formed the Bontoc colony at a place now known as Barangay Bantay. They suffered malaria but they held on and become a thriving Bontoc Village.
With an effort to push forward the colonization of the area, despite the appalling mortality of the Bontoc colony, the provincial Government at Bontoc tried another colony at Tuga. Volunteers from Cervantes, Ilocos Sur were brought in, they were supplied with the necessary farm tools including mosquito nets and kitchen utensils. A certain Allo Caparas, a graduate of the Constabulary Academy of Baguio Hospital, Vicente Buslig from Apayao was sent to took after the health of these settlers.
Inspired by their success in the settlement at Tuga, the Cervantes settlers crossed the Chico Rivers eastward, right into the heart of the fertile valley. Fructoso Gallema and
Inocencio Candeleria headed the group. They found a living spring with fresh potable water. They settled near this spring and were later joined by settlers from Sigay, Ilocos Sur, led by Leon Bangisan and Pedro Balacang.
24
Thereafter, other pioneers came in headed by Francisco Viloria who settled an Appas, who was followed by Lauro Arizala from Zambales. Abraham Omao from Lubuagan chose to settle in Bulanao. Their harvest were abundant; the hills offered them plenty of venison and pork from the wild hogs. The creeks were full of fish, and lobster. However, there were no roads and no markets for these products-Malaria casualities depleted their number, but the pioneers held on.
The dawn of the new era for Tabuk was more than assured with the coming of the Bureau the sprawling valley and found Tabuk to contain a series of plains from Laya to Balong on the first valley, Ipil and Bulanao on the eastern plateau. Further eastward across the hills, there another plateau of Callagdao and southwest of Agbannawag. The execution of the government subdivision of the dedicated surveyors, Mr. Edrelin, Mr. Ela, and Mr. Antonio Pizzaro are always well remembered by the settlers who came in waves to establish their homes in this great valley.
Tabuk name Tabuk evolved from the wo0rd “TOBOG”, the name of a living stream with cool and fresh water flowing from Sitio Paligatto in Barangay Balawag down to the Chico River. The areas traversed by this stream were also called TOBOG.
Tabuk is now a fifth class city with an income of P110,414,133.00 in 2007. it is prominently considered as the rice where it supplies other places. The city has also produced outstanding farmers at the national level for the last decades.
The city is also the site of the proposed Regional Agro-Industrial Center which aims to further develop the city and make it the agro-industrial center of the region. The city is likewise working to become the only component of the Cordillera in the near future.
Reference:http://natsm16.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=literature&action=display&thread=1557