About Bogo City

Welcome to City of Bogo 

The Land 

Bogo is situated in the northern piece of Cebu territory, in terrain Cebu. It is 101 kilometers far from the territorial capital of Central Visayas, Cebu City. Bogo is available via area and ocean transportation. The abutting districts of Bogo and their estimated separations are as per the following: Tabogon in the southeast, 18 kms. By means of the commonplace street; Tabuelan in the southwest, 40 kms. Through San Remegio; San Remegio in the west, 9 kms; and Daanbantayan, 26 kms, in the north. Bogo Bay, which misleads the east-bound Camotes Sea, isolates Bogo from Medellin. 

Physical Features 

Bogo has a region of 10,545 hectares, which constitutes 2.7% of the aggregate area region of Cebu territory. It has 29 barangays or towns, seven of which are situated along the coast. The city has a place with the fourth Congressional District of Cebu. The city has a tender moving territory to about level along the northeastern segment comprising of barangays Don Pedro Rodriguez, Polambato, Cayang, Poblacion, Dakit, Malingin, Gairan, and Nailon. It has a beachfront line running give or take 27 kms., bordered with coral developments with pockets of sandy shores at Nailon, Siocon, and Odlot. 

The city is described by almost level waterfront fields at the focal bit where the Poblacion barangays Gairan, Polambato, Don Rodriguez, Cayang, and Malingin are found. From the focal waterfront range, going through the inside is a moving landscape, aside from along the eastern beachfront part, which is rough and has a lofty slant. Its most astounding height is 252 meters above ocean level at Barangay Binabag. Steep inclines are more or less 3.2 kms. from the closest foothill toward the upper east. 

History 

Bogo's political group goes back to the landing of the first floods of ahead of schedule Spanish colonizers in the capital city of Cebu. Settlements were at that point flourishing along the shorelines of the town wherein nautical tribes and brokers from inaccessible islands of the Visayas area and to the extent the southern islands of Mindanao incidentally go to these settlements to offer or trade their items with the natives.The year 1600 introduced the establishing of genuine settlement which was in this way changed into a barangay where little hovels made of cogon and bamboos hunched down at the site where the Bogo Central Extension now stands. While the barangay was then a piece of another clamoring group of the north, now known as the town of Daan Bantayan. Subsequently, in January 1850 the Bishop of Cebu selected Father Jaime Micalot, a Spanish minister, as the first Parish cleric of Bogo and announced Saint Vincent Ferrer as the town's benefactor holy person. 

The primary mass was praised in a quickly assembled structure made of cogon material, blended with bamboo and timber materials on April 5, 1850, which matched with the passing commemoration of the Patron Saint. Shockingly, this sanctuary was gutted by flame of undetermined starting point and another stone church was built in the same spot where the present Bogo Town Plaza is found. 

Early history specialists affirm that the town of Bogo got its name from a solitary Bogo tree which remained on the verge of the shore which is presently a piece of Bogo wharf. Under its foliage, the locals of the spot meet approaching brokers who rode on delicate sailboats stacked with products to be sold or bargained with the locals of the town. Some of these brokers, notwithstanding, remained and wedded with the locals of the spot. 

The People 

Per censal period starting 2007, the number of inhabitants in Bogo is recorded at 69,123 with ____ family units. The populace thickness of Bogo in that same year remained at 741.6 and with a populace development rate of 1.09 for as long as 7 years. 

Demographic Profile 

There is a populace increment of 8.22% from year 2000 to 2007 for a time of 7 years contrasted with a populace increment from 1995 to 2000 which demonstrated a populace development rate of 11.17%. 

Atmosphere 

Bogo appreciates the third sort of atmosphere. It is described by no proclaimed wet period and a dry season enduring from one to three months. Its generally dry months are from November to May. The blustery season of the region for the most part begins in June and finishes in October. The normal precipitation information in the range demonstrate that overwhelming rains as a rule tumble from June to November. 

Bogo is immovably hotter than most places in entire of Cebu region. Its mean temperature of 27.4oC is 6oC higher than that of the whole region. Walk, April, and May are normally the hottest months while November, December, and January are the coolest months. 

The town is very much shielded from the full drive of wind blows. The northeasterly wind heading is most pervasive amid the months of January to May. At the point when the northeasterly twist begins to hit in June the town is all around secured by the mountain scopes of Cayang and Banban. July and August is the onset of southwesterly winds (by regional standards called habagat) where low level zones, including the more noteworthy urbanized barangays are secured by the mountains of Binabag, Anonang Norte and Anonang Sur. This condition makes Bogo a decent sanctuary for ocean vessels amid hurricane season. 

Topography and Vegetative Cover 

The area structure and geologic developments of the region mirror the generally wide limestone plain/mountain scene. The landscape normal for this especially geomorphic mapping unit is level to almost level, with regular to numerous stone outcrops and meager soils.