Panabo City 6.38

Panabo is a of the Philippines in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.Bordering Davao City to its northeast, Panabo is a part of Davao Metropolitan Area. The city has an area of.GovernmentThe Panabo City Hall is located about 2.23 kilometers from its boundary with Davao City.BarangaysThe city is politically subdivided into 40 barangays. Quezon was formerly the sitio of Cabili; it became a barrio in 1957.HistoryOriginally the rich lowland was inhabited by a group of stocky-haired natives called Aetas. These people led nomadic life and lived by hunting. With the use of their most essential tool, the bow and arrow—"pana-sa-boboy" as they call it—they hunted for food which primarily consisted of rootcrops and meat of wild boars.When the Christian settlers came at the beginning of the 20th century, the place was already a thriving trading community; thus, the place was already known as Taboan, which means "trading center". After the Cristian settlers began pioneering the region, the natives moved further to the hinterlands along with them their "pana-sa-boboy". This term later evolved into present day name Panabo.Legal BasisPanabo, which was formerly a mere barangay of Tagum, then known as Magugpo during that time, became a town July 19, 1949, through Presidential Proclamation No. 236 of the President Manuel A. Roxas.The local government unit of Panabo was created into a component city of Davao del Norte by virtue of Republic Act No. 9015 and ratified by the residents in a plebiscite held on March 31, 2001. However, its official existence as a municipal corporation took effect on with the appointment of new set of officials.