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The Municipality of Maragondon is a third class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. Maragondon is south-west from Manila. According to the, it has a population of people.The name of the town is often confused by immigrants and visitors from Cebu, mistakenly calling it as Marigondon, which is a barangay in Lapu-Lapu City.In the municipality's name etymology, Maragondon and Marigondon was derived from the same word madagundong, which means full of noise. While in Maragondon, the noise comes from the river, but in Marigondon, the noise comes from the waves in the sea, and the area was named by one of the Tagalog aides of the Spaniards when they reached Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City, but was corrupted by the Spanish Officers as Marigondong, then finally, to its present name, Marigondon.BarangaysMaragondon is politically subdivided into 27 barangays.HistoryThe name Maragondon was derived from Tagalog word madagundong or maugong, meaning much sound. Actually the sounds comes from a noisy river called Kay Albaran in the barrio of Capantayan. This area was the first townsite selected, but because the river frequently overflowed and flooded the place, the town was later relocated to its present site. The word madagundong not being pleasant to the ear, the people had it changed to marigundong in honor of the town' s patron saint, Nuestra Senora Maria Asuncion (Our Lady of The Assumption).Soon after the establishment of the American regime, Lope K. Santos, an authority on Tagalog language and member of a geographic committee created to "investigate and revise" the names of Philippine towns and provinces, recommended the change of Marigundong to "Maragondon" definitely more pleasing to the ear, the present name of the town