Tabango, Leyte
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Tabango is a 4th class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 31,433 people in 6,724 households.
On January 17, 2008, Tabango, Leyte Mayor Bernard Jonathan Remandaban, 37, opened (soft) its almost complete P 5.8 million modern / fully air-conditioned library: “It took us 6 years to construct our municipal library.” Tabango, with annual income of P 34 million, has 34,000 residents in 13 barangays (villages), with 26 elementary schools, 4 high schools and one satellite school, the Palompon Institute of Technology. Leyte Gov. Carlos Jericho Petilla promised further support of P 500,000 to P 1 million. The library could accommodate 20,000 books, has 5 computer units with Internet access and a flat television set that only carries the National Geographic and Discovery Channels. Students can use the computers for 10 hours monthly, free of charge.[1]
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Tabango is politically subdivided into 13 barangays.
- Butason I
- Butason II
- Campokpok
- Catmon
- Gimarco
- Gibacungan
- Inangatan
- Manlawaan
- Omaganhan
- Poblacion
- Santa Rosa
- Tabing
- Tugas
THE TOWN OF TABANGO Tabango was originally a barrio named Tanday. Most of its inhabitants lived near the seashore. One day a man living the barrio went to catch some crabs as swamps surrounded the places and crabs were abundant. Although he was an expert in catching crabs, he was accidentally bitten by a big one. A Spanish soldier happened to be near the place where the man was, so he came near and asked for a name of the place. The man bitten by crab looked up and saw the soldier, feeling the pain caused by the biting the crab and he cried, “TABANG MO!” which is means help me. The soldier thinking it was the name of the place said. “AH TABANGO!” the soldier repeated the word TABANGO to his superiors and from that time on, the settlement was called Tabango, when the barrio was created a municipality, it retained its name
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