Tarragona is a 4th class municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 22,846 people in 4,458 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. ... Davao Oriental is a province of the Philippines located in the Davao Region in Mindanao. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Tarragona is politically subdivided into 10 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. ...
Glenn Rabonza, administrator of the Office of the Civil Defense, told ANC that residents of Barangay Tubaon were sent to temporary shelters away from the hazard area.
Tarragona Mayor Samuel Uy earlier announced the forced evacuation of the families in Tubaon.
DAVAO CITY â Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Dulmatin, accused of involvement in the 2002 bombings in Bali in Indonesia, is hiding in an island off Sabah in East Malaysia, not in Basilan or Sulu, a reliable Indonesian source said Thursday.