Carmen is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cotabato, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 45,909 people in 9,395 households. A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... The Code!!! ^*&)^VITG*&O%&*HJOISO&JOKAHS(*D&AJ(ADUADA{}D D*A(*DA) DA+)I*AF)F AFOA)_(F_+AFA AF)*F)_AI*) F*A&^(A*F)A*&FA*)(JSDAI)HDI)(_*AI)_)AA()NHAOHOIAHIO INFO(*)@()INDASO(U)DH*()ADHIODA DAJ)(AUD)(IUADG(&) &^(A*F)A*&FA*)(JSDAI... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Carmen is politically subdivided into 28 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
The native Maguindanaon of Cotabatoprovince have a fascinating culture that revolves around kulintang music, a specific type of gong music, found among both Muslim and non-Muslim groups of the Southern Philippines.
COTABATOCITY -- It's all systems go for the staging of the joint RP-US military exercise scheduled this month in Carmen, North Cotabato, which according to military and civilian authorities would be "brief" and "purely training on antiterrorism."
Some residents of North Cotabato and those from nearby provinces have expressed apprehension that the exercise might lead to clashes between troops, communist and Moro rebels.
North Cotabato, bounded by the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur, is sparsely inhabited by the communist New People's Army and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, suspected of coddling the Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terror group allied with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.