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Tandag is a fourth class city and the provincial capital of the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines, on the island of Mindanao. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 52,114 people.[3]
The city celebrates the Diwatahan Festival on the third week of January in honor of Senor Sto. Nino. It also celebrate Araw ng Tandag every September 10 showcasing the city's achievements through the years.
Farming and fishing are the main economic activity for most of the people in Tandag. Chief farm products are rice, corn, coconut. Livestock and poultry raising are also important sources of income. Tandag has a national secondary airport and a seaport.
Tandag City is located along the northeastern coast of Mindanao Island facing the Philippine Sea. It is bounded on the north by the municipalities of Cortes and Lanuza, on the east by the Philippine Sea, on the south by the towns of Tago and San Miguel, and on the west by the province of Agusan del Sur. It is located 448 nautical miles from Manila and 150 nautical miles from Cebu. The distance from Surigao City in the north to Tandag is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) and 331 kilometres (206 mi) is the distance from Davao City to the south.
It consists of twenty-one (21) barangays. Six of which are urban barangays, five are coastal barangays, four are built-up expansion and six are hinterland barangays. The urban barangays comprise 1,594.10 hectares; 3,464.61 hectares for coastal barangays; 2,233.15 hectares for built-up expansion barangays and 4,964.34 hectares for hinterland barangays.
The municipality falls under the Type II of climate in the country, which is characterized by rainfall distributed throughout the year, with a negligible short dry season.
Wet season is highly pronounced from September to February with an annual average rainfall of 458.94 millimetres (18.069 in) and an average temperature of 26.3 °C (79.3 °F). Dry months are from March to August.
Tandag is politically subdivided into 21 barangays.[2] Majority of the barangays are considered rural areas.
Tandag along with the other 15 towns recently regained its citihood after the Supreme Court of the Philippines reversed its earlier decision.[4]
Recently Tandag lost its cityhood, along with 15 other cities, after the Supreme Court of the Philippines granted a petition filed by the League of Cities of the Philippines, and declared the cityhood law (RA 9392) which allowed the town to acquire its city status, unconstitutional.[5] The said cities, the court ruled, did not meet the requirements for cityhood.
More than a year later, on December 22, 2009, acting on the appeal of the so-called "League of 16 Cities" (of which Tandag is a part of), the Supreme 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."[6] As such, the cityhood status of Tandag 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[7] making Tandag a municipality again.
Voting 7-6, with two justices not taking part, the Supreme Court 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 Tandag and 15 other towns in the Philippines.[8]
Many versions have been given regarding the name of Tandag. One such version said that Father Calan, Father Incarnation and other priest were on their way to visit chieftain Suba to baptize his people. When one of the missionaries asked native rowing their boat what name of the place was with fingers pointing downward, the native who naught the priest meant the school of fish, answered "tamda", meaning look down. This name later became Tandag. Father Encarnacion, the member of the group was later killed by the natives. The other version says that when De la Vega landed in Tandag to subdue the ferocious caragas as the rebellios natives were called then, he did not know the name of the place so he inquired from the native who was gathering the leaves of herbs locally known as tangad. The native who did not understand Spanish answered hesitantly "tangad". Later, the name was changed to Tandag. Another story tells a group of Spanish soldiers and missionaries who lost their way. When they asked for correct direction, the natives who could not understand a word they said only laughed at them all while saying the word "tank", meaning lost. Thus the name Tandag aptly means lost.
Major languages spoken are Tandaganon, Bisaya, Cebuano, Surigaonon, and Tagalog. English is widely used in schools, business and government offices.
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