Cabangahan is an urbanizing barangay in the South Highway District of Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, Philippines. Located 15 kilometres south of the city proper, it is bounded to the north by

Aglayan Aglayan is an urban barangay of the City of Malaybalay in the Province of Bukidnon, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, Aglayan has a population of 7,594 people. Geography Aglayan is bounded to the north by Laguitas, Magsaysay, and M ...

, to the east by Violeta and

Simaya Simayà is a barangay in the Basakan District of the city of Malaybalay, Philippines. As of 2015, it has a population of 4,161. It was formerly a sitio of Linabo and was converted into a regular barangay in 1954. Geography and socio-economic ...

, to the south by

Bangcud Bangcud is an urban barangay in the South Highway District of Malaybalay City, Bukidnon, in the Philippines. Location It is bounded to the north by Cabangahan, to the east by the Sawaga River which separates it from Simaya and Santo Niño, ...

, and to the west by Bugcaon of the Municipality of Lantapan. According to the 2015 census, Cabangahan has a population of 3,015 people. Cabangahan is generally flat with minor undulations near the bank of the

Sawaga River The Sawaga River ( Binukid: ''Wahig Sawaga'') is a river in Central Bukidnon, Philippines on the island of Mindanao. A majority of its catchment area is located in Malaybalay City. Its source is from a watershed west of Mt. Tuminungan (part of ...

. Agriculture is the most common economic activity, with corn, rice, rubber, and sugarcane being the primary crops. There is only one public elementary school which is administered by the Division of Malaybalay City, Schools District VI. Cabangahan is a

hispanicization Hispanicization ( es, hispanización) refers to the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by Hispanic culture or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-Hispanic becomes Hispanic. Hispanicization is il ...

of the

Binukid The Bukid language, ''Binukid'' or ''Bukidnon'', is an Austronesian language spoken by indigenous peoples of Northern Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The word means 'mountain' or 'highland' while means 'in the manner, or style, of the ...

term ''kabangahan'', which means "a place of many oil palm" inukid: ''banga'' It was first settled by the Higaonons and upon the migration of other ethnic groups into Mindanao, the settlement eventually became a sitio of Barangay Bugcaon, which was then a part of Malaybalay. In 1950, Cabangahan was separated from Bugcaon and became a regular barangay. By 1964, the Municipality of Lantapan was created which included Bugcaon; in 1966, RA 4787 further stipulated that Cabangahan remain as part of Malaybalay.

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{{reflist Barangays of Malaybalay