Bogo City 6.04

Bogo, officially the City of Bogo, and often referred to as Bogo City, established in 2007, is a in the province of, Philippines. According to the, it has a population of. Bogo is located in the northeastern coast of Cebu province, on the principal island of Cebu. It is 101km from Cebu City and is accessible by land and sea. Bogo has an area of 103.5km2, which constitutes % of the area of Cebu island and % of the total land area of Cebu province. The city marches with: Medellin to the north, San Remigio to the west, and Tabogon to the south; on the east it is bound by Camotes Sea.HistoryThe year 1600 saw the founding of a real settlement which was subsequently transformed into a barangay with small huts made of cogon grass and bamboo, standing where the Bogo Central Extension now stands. While the barangay was then part of another community in the north (today's town of Daanbantayan), the natives enjoyed tacit freedom of self-rule although they continued to pay tributes and taxes to the chieftain of Daanbantayan. This barangay grew in prominence and for this reason, it was separated from Daanbantayan. In January 1850 the Bishop of Cebu, appointed Spanish friar Fr Jaime Micalot as the first parish priest of Bogo and decreed Saint Vincent Ferrer as the town's patron saint.