a PLACE worth searching for...

My hometown is a place located at the southern region of Mactan Island.

google map: map of Cordova Cebu

It is under the 6th district of Cebu with 13 barangays...

Alegría 

Bangbang

Buagsong 

Catarmán 

Cogon

Dapitan

Day-as

Gabi

Gilutongan (composed of Gilutongan and Nalusuan Islands)

Ibabao

Pilipog

Población 

San Miguel

...under the supervision of Mayor Adelino B. Sitoy.

-kawaii-

source: wikipedia

It's definitely a HOME

Our place isn't that big but it would always give me the thought of going home to see the beautiful sea while watching the city lights in the night.

It's definitely a home.

I am proud to say that our biodiversity is greatly enhanced as evidenced by migratory birds visiting during summer and our enlarging mangrove islands.

If ever you have that opportunity to come here in our place, don't even miss the beautiful sunset, our beaches and our native delicacy - bakasi. 

Come and visit CORDOVA!

-kawaii-

pictures from LGU files

A City in Spain, A Municipality in Cebu

 

I won't directly be talking here about the place I almost spend my whole life with. The reason why is that I feel the urge to narrate to you a brief history of our place and how it came to be.

As far as I can remember, I had an assignment in World History before about knowing how our place was named or how it did get it's name. Glad that my father is working in the LGU and that I can have all the access.

Based from the picture above, it's obvious that the place is Cordova right? But let me clear this to you. The Cordova that I am referring is not from Alabama or Alaska and though your guess is right, Spain is not the answer. The picture above is non other than the "welcome post" of the Municipality of Cordova and don't go too far coz' it's located here in the province of Cebu.

Cordova or formerly known as Day-as was once a barangay of Opon (now Lapu-Lapu City). But because of difficulties in fulfilling their religious duties and obligations (mostly because of road issues), Day-asanons (Cordobanhuns) decided to secede from it's mother town in 1963. With the help of Padre Simon Aguirre, a parish priest, the residents were able to formulate petitions for municipal conversion of the Barangay. It was only on the third petition that their request for a separate municipality was granted.

 

Because of  the great influence and dedication of Padre Aguirre, the residents decided to change the name to Cordova a city of Spain where the said priest was born. In preserving the fact that Cordova was once a part of Lapu-Lapu City, they retained Day-as as a name of one of the barangays and that's the place where I almost spend my whole life.

-kawaii-

Sources:

cebu.gov.ph

Hon. Macario Tajanlangit -Brgy. Captain of Day-as

pictures from LGU gallery

- a dream being started too soon and ended up too fast

 

I once dreamed of going to school riding a bicycle. And I thought, that would happen when former Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared that there would be a Cordova-Cebu bridge.

It would be easy on my part knowing that I can directly go to CNU without passing the busy Marcelo Fernan Bridge. But sadly, that dream will never happen though the construction was already started as seen in the picture above.

According to Mayor Tomas Osmena, the bridge is too costly knowing that large vessels will be passing along the sea and that the budget won't even reach the Cebu City Coast.

I hope that the government would still reconsider this matter.

The construction is located in Day-as Cordova where I live and though it created a great havoc in our fishermen, they still want the bridge to be constructed to enhance our economy by not depending on MEPZs' high labor rates and promote our native delicacies and resorts.

-kawaii-

picture from LGU gallery 

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