Talacogon, officially the Municipality of Talacogon ( ceb, Lungsod sa Talacogon; tgl, Bayan ng Talacogon), is a 2nd class

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in the

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Agusan del Sur Agusan del Sur, officially the Province of Agusan del Sur ( ceb, Habagatang Agusan; Butuanon: ''Probinsya hong Agusan del Sur''; tl, Timog Agusan), is a province in Caraga region, Mindanao, Philippines. Its capital is the municipality of Prosp ...

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 39,678 people.

History

Talacogon got its name from the

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that is abundant in the area. It was called so by the natives who inhabit the area before the entry of the Spanish in the

Agusan River The Agusan River is third longest river in the Philippines, located in the north-eastern part of Mindanao island, draining majority of the Caraga region and some parts of Davao de Oro. It is the country's third largest river (after the Cagayan ...

basin sometime in the 18th century. The Spanish who came in the area then adopted the name of the place as they founded it as a town in the 13th of November 1872, building a church and a town hall as commemoration to its founding. It was thus the first town founded in the riverbanks of the Agusan River and the oldest town in the province of Agusan del Sur. As the years went on, Talacogon only experienced slow progress due to its inaccessibility and remoteness to other parts of Mindanao. It was only in the 1970s to 1990's that roads begun being built in the area from which the municipality then experienced rapid progress, due in part to facilitate the

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business in the area.Philippines: Human Rights and Forest Management in the 1990s
/ref> Being a town since 1872, Talacogon remains the economic center of the province west of the Agusan River.

Geography

Talacogon is located at . According to the

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, the municipality has a land area of constituting of the total area of Agusan del Sur.

Climate

Barangays

Talacogon is politically subdivided into 16

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Demographics

In the 2020 census, Talacogon had a population of 39,678. The population density was .

Economy

References

External links

* Philippine Standard Geographic Code Municipalities of Agusan del Sur {{Caraga-geo-stub