Chalan Pago-Ordot ( ch, Chålan Pågu-Otdot) is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

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territory of

Guam Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic cent ...

, containing the communities of Chalan Pago and Ordot. It is located in the eastern-central part of the island and is part of the Kattan (Eastern) District. The village's population has increased slightly since the island's 2010 census.

Etymology

''Pågu'' is the

Chamorro Chamorro may refer to: * Chamorro people, the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific * Chamorro language, an Austronesian language indigenous to The Marianas * Chamorro Time Zone, the time zone of Guam and the Northern Mar ...

word for the wild tree ''

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'', while "''chålan''"' means "road". The name ''Chalan Pago'' is named after the path from Hagåtña to the Spanish village at

Pago Bay Pago Bay is the largest bay on the U.S. territory of Guam, located at the mouth of Pago River on the island's eastern coast. There is extensive evidence of CHamoru settlement before Spanish colonization during the late seventeenth century. During ...

. Ordot comes from the word ''otdot'', or

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. In

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, the

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ese used the area as a supply depot during their occupation of the island. Ordot is also the site of the controversial Ordot Landfill, first constructed by the

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in the 1940s, but now full and in violation of

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(EPA) regulations. It was added to the

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in 1983 by the EPA, with the Navy as a potential contributor to it. The landfill was forced closed in 2011 and Guam agreed to pay for remediation of the surrounding area atop implemented a cap on the landfill from a prior 2004 consent decree. Guam had been able to successfully initiate action to recover a portion of the estimated costs for this cleanup from the US government as a result of the Supreme Court case '' Guam v. United States'' in 2021.

Demographics

The

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has the municipality in multiple

census-designated places A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

: Chalan Pago, and Ordot.

Education

The

Guam Public School System The Guam Department of Education (GDOE), formerly the Guam Public School System, is a school district that serves the United States territory of Guam. The school district can be thought of as analogous to the school districts of other cities and co ...

serves the island. Ordot/Chalan Pago Elementary School and Agueda Johnston Middle School are located in Chalan-Pago-Ordot. Johnston is located in Ordot; originally it was named George Washington Junior High School. George Washington High School in

Mangilao Mangilao is a Villages of Guam, village on the eastern shore of the United States territory of Guam. The village's population has decreased slightly since the island's 2010 census. Cliffs lie along much of the village's shoreline provide dramatic ...

serves the village as a secondary school.Guam's Public High Schools
." ''Guam Public School System''. Accessed September 8, 2008.

Father Dueñas Memorial School Father Dueñas Memorial School (FDMS) is an all-male Catholic high school located in Chalan-Pago census-designated place, in the United States territory of Guam. It is within the territory of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña. The school ...

is in the area. St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School was open 2008–2015.

Government

References

External links

Ordot map from PDN
*Rogers, Robert F (1995). Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam: University of Hawai'i Press. {{coord, 13, 26, 26, N, 144, 46, 17, E, type:adm1st_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Villages in Guam