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Ubay, officially the Municipality of Ubay ( ceb, Munisipyo sa Ubay; tgl, Bayan ng Ubay), is a 1st class
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in the
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of
Bohol Bohol (), officially the Province of Bohol ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bohol; tl, Lalawigan ng Bohol), is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of the island itself and 75 minor surrounding islands. It ...
,
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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 81,799 people. Ubay is in the northeast of the province, and has an area of , with of coastline. It is the largest and most populated municipality in Bohol.


Etymology

One etymology derivation is that the town's name is a contraction of the term ''ubay-ubay'', meaning "alongside". According to Kaufmann's Visayan-English dictionary, the Visayan word ''"ubay"'' means: The flow of seawater between the mainland and the island of Lapinig Grande (now Pres. C.P. Garcia town) could justify the second definition of Ubay. It is a situation that is permanent and the constant reference to the flow of water can make the term ubay be attached as the name of the place. An alternative derivation is that the term 'ubay-ubay' or 'alongside' became the byword of seafarers who used to travel close to the shorelines of Ubay to avoid the strong current of the
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. There was a single path to follow reach the island trading centres. This trail was located alongside (ubay) the sandy beach. Later on the term Ubay became the original name of the community.


History

Historically, Ubay was part of
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. On 15 January 1844, it separated from Talibon to become an independent municipality. The religious aspect of the town was established much later than the civil aspect of the town. The decree of the Spanish Governor General creating Ubay as a town in the religious aspect is dated 22 October 1877. However, Royal Order No. 695 issued by the Kingdom of Spain has the date 5 October 1877. The town celebrates its fiesta every last
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of January in commemoration and honor of their patron saint, Holy Child. Ubayanons often come home during fiesta to share the joy of reviving the beautiful old story on the origin of the place.


Cityhood

House Bill No. 4854 was filed last September 26, 2019 for the conversion of the municipality of Ubay into a component city in the province of Bohol. The bill is currently pending with the committee on local government since October 1, 2019.


Geography

The town is situated east of
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, north of Alicia and Mabini, and northeast of San Miguel. It is northeast of
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, southeast of
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and east of
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.


Climate

The climate is typically equatorial – temperature range over the year is less than three degrees Celsius ( deg F), and annual rainfall exceeds . The dry season starts in February and lasts through April sometimes extending to midMay. The climate in Ubay falls within Coronas climate type IV, characterised by not very pronounced maximum rainfall with a short dry season from one to three months and a wet season of nine to ten months. Ubay has a tropical climate. Most months of the year are marked by significant
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, making
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favorable – it supports at least two rice crops per year. The short dry season has little impact. Ubay is classified as Am (
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) by climate classification system.


Barangays

Ubay comprises 44 barangays organized into eight urban districts (UD): , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=401 , IV, , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=302 , III , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 21 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=703 , VII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 13 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=804 , VIII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 17 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=205 , II , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 8 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=506 , V , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=107 , I , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , Last Saturday of April


, style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=208 , II , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 8 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=709 , VII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 24 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=310 , III , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 8 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=211 , II , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 13 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=312 , III , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 26 November , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=413 , IV , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=414 , IV , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 5 April , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=815 , VIII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 6 February , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=516 , V , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 13 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=217 , II , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 9 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=118 , I , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=819 , VIII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=320 , III , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=421 , IV , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 14 February , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=122 , I , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=723 , VII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 8 May &
27 November , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=724 , VII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 23 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=525 , V , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 30 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=226 , II , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=227 , II , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 27 April , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=328 , III , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 8 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=429 , IV , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=530 , V , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , Last Friday of January


, style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=131 , I , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 26 June , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=632 , VI , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 21 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=133 , I , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , Last Saturday of April


, style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=834 , VIII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 5 April , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=635 , VI , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 29 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=737 , VII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 8 December , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=638 , VI , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 3 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=539 , V , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 29 June , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=840 , VIII , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 29 September , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=641 , VI , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 5 April , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=342 , III , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 16 May , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=443 , IV , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=644 , VI , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 15 January , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value=145 , I , , style="text-align:center;" data-sort-value="" , 28 November


Demographics

When the first national
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was held in 1903, the municipality had a population 7,355. It continued to grow until 1960 with 34,090 (annual growth rate of over the period). The population markedly decreased in 1970 with the creation of the municipality of President Carlos P. Garcia, formerly a constituent barangay. Since 1970, average annual growth rate (1970–2020) is . The primary language is Cebuano: Filipino and English are understood to a limited degree.


Economy

Ubay has a number of business establishments commercial trading firms engaged in retail and wholesale. The new public market building was completed in 2000. The regular market day is
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and local traders from neighboring towns come to sell their merchandise consisting mostly of agricultural products and small consumer items like used clothes, household utensils, and other products. Ubay also provides a market for the neighboring island municipality of Pres. Carlos P. Garcia. Another well-known public market is located in barangay San Pascual, south of the municipality.


Tourism and culture


Delicacies

* Ube Calamay: It is a purple rice cake, (
Calamay ''Kalamay'' (also spelled ''Calamay'', literally "sugar"), is a sticky sweet delicacy that is popular in many regions of the Philippines. It is made of coconut milk, brown sugar, and ground glutinous rice. It can also be flavored with margarine ...
) with Ube or purple yam. This sweet and delightful delicacy is said to be originated from this town because of its large plantations of Ube (''purple yam''). * Fried Ube bread: Another mouthwatering delicacy made of ube. It is bread deepfried then filled with purple yam.


Ubay-ubay Festival

Like the
Sinulog The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City and is the centre of the Santo Niño Catholic celebrations in the Philippines. The festival is considered to be the fi ...
of Cebu, the Ubay-ubay Festival is the town's own version in celebration and honor of the patron saint, Sr. Santo Niño. This colorful and fascinating festivity is a well-attended event where people flock the town's major roads and venues to view the grand street parade and the festival dance-competition. This celebration is held each 28 – 30 January.


Government

Ubay is governed by the municipal
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as head of the municipality. The vice mayor is the next highest position and acts as the presiding officer of the municipal council.


Infrastructure


Transport

The most common form of local transportation is the tricycle for nearer barangays. For far barangays, the motorcycle is the most common. All barangays are connected by roads and the only places without roads are the steep slopes of the central mountains. The improvement of the Bohol circumferential road and the port facilities helped Ubay to become the trading and transportation hub of northeastern Bohol, connecting it to the neighboring island of Leyte and the rest of Bohol province. Passenger and cargo traffic to these destinations has noticeably increased over the years indicating an increasing volume of trade between these points. Land transportation is provided by various short and long-distance buses, jeeps and vans, connecting Ubay to the rest of the towns in the province. Tagbilaran can be reached from Ubay in two to three hours by bus or van. There are also daily combined road/ferry services to
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/ Cubao,
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). Ubay seaport is considered the province's principal gateway to
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, and
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. Its improved port area is linked to the major port destinations of neighboring provinces such as Bato and Hilongos in Leyte,
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in
Southern Leyte Southern Leyte ( ceb, Habagatang Leyte; Kabalian language, Kabalian: ''Habagatan nga Leyte''; war, Salatan nga Leyte; tl, Timog Leyte), officially the Province of Southern Leyte, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines loc ...
, and
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, the regional capital. Four vessels travels to and from Cebu City daily, and routes to and from Bato, Hilongos and
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are also served daily. The journey time for each destination is 4–5 hours. Tapal Wharf is another port terminal located in northeastern barangay of Tapal that serves the President Carlos P. Garcia-Ubay and vice-versa route. Ubay is home to one of only two airports in Bohol (the other being Bohol–Panglao International Airport), but Ubay Airport is completely undeveloped and has no scheduled service, nor any facilities. The runway currently is only about long but couldn't extend at the southwestern end becomes it is close to hills, and the northeastern end reaches housing and the sea.


Health

For health services, the town has two public health units staffed by doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, medical technologists and sanitary inspectors. A small government hospital was established to provide outpatient services to local residents. A private 15-bed hospital in Fatima also provides services for emergencies. A pediatrics and OB-gyne clinic complements the health services available in town. Don Emilio Del Valle Memorial Hospital in barangay Bood was established in 2003 from a donated lot with a current bed capacity of 300 as of 2019. It became the first agency in the province to be granted with ''ISO 9001:2008 QMS Certification'' by TUV SUD. In July 2015, it was granted a certificate of full ISO compliance by TUV SUD. In 2017, it acquired its ISO 9001:2015 Certification by TÜV Rheinland. Barangay Health Workers (BHW) from each barangay provide direct health care assistance to barangay residents.


Public order and safety

The local police force is 37 police officers. Police–population ratio is 1:, favourable than the standard ratio of 1:1,000. The police are augmented by 492 Barangay Tanod volunteers. It is reported that crime rate in Ubay is relatively low. The local Fire Department is staffed by eight fire fighters with two fire trucks. Incidence of fires is reportedly low in the municipality.


Utilities

Bohol was linked to the major source of geothermal power in Leyte through the underwater connection between
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,
Southern Leyte Southern Leyte ( ceb, Habagatang Leyte; Kabalian language, Kabalian: ''Habagatan nga Leyte''; war, Salatan nga Leyte; tl, Timog Leyte), officially the Province of Southern Leyte, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines loc ...
and Ubay. Presently, only three of the 44 barangays have no electricity, yet only 34.97 percent of the total households in the municipality have electricity compared to the province, which was 58.3 percent energized in 2000. The town proper and seven other barangays were served by the Ubay Water Service Cooperative. The cooperative planned to expand their service to eight other barangays in the near future. Due to consumer demand and the limited size of the supply, water service became difficult during dry months. Bohol province reported that 23.71 percent of its households had their own faucets from a community system while Ubay reported only 8.97 percent. For the province, 21.68 percent of households had access to shared faucets while Ubay only had 8.86 percent. In Ubay, slightly more than half (51.83%) of the households had access to dug wells.


Education


Elementary Education

There are 45 public elementary schools in the municipality located in each barangay and one on Tres Reyes island. There are 7 private pre-school and elementary schools.


Secondary Education

There are 19 public and private high schools in the municipality which offer
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curriculum. : Accountancy, Business, and Management (ABM) : General Academic Strand (GAS) : Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) : Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) : Technical, Vocational, and Livelihood (TVL)


Tertiary Education

*
Bohol Northern Star Colleges The Bohol Northern Star Colleges or BNSC is a private non-sectarian co-educational institution of higher learning in Ubay, Bohol, Philippines. The institution is located at barangay Poblacion ''Poblacion'' (literally "town" or "settlement" ...
- To meet the increasing demands for college education, Bohol Northeastern College was founded in 1996 by Bohol political leaders, former governors
Erico B. Aumentado Erico Boyles Aumentado (May 18, 1940 – December 25, 2012) was a former governor, vice governor, and senior Sangguniang Panlalawigan, provincial board member of Bohol, and congressman and deputy speaker of the Philippine House of Representa ...
and David B. Tirol. The name was later changed to its present name in January 2007. * Ubay Community College


Notable personalities

*
Erico B. Aumentado Erico Boyles Aumentado (May 18, 1940 – December 25, 2012) was a former governor, vice governor, and senior Sangguniang Panlalawigan, provincial board member of Bohol, and congressman and deputy speaker of the Philippine House of Representa ...
Bohol Bohol (), officially the Province of Bohol ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bohol; tl, Lalawigan ng Bohol), is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of the island itself and 75 minor surrounding islands. It ...
governor who served three consecutive terms (2001–2010), former deputy speaker of the
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, former congressman of
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's 2nd District, former provincial vice-governor and board member. * Diosdado R. Delima - Chairman of the Philippine Reparations Commission (E.O. 315) established in 1958 by then President Carlos P. Garcia. He reported directly to the
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. During the presidency of Diosdado P. Macapagal, he became the Head of the Legal Department of the Philippine Reparations Commission. *
Karen Gallman Karen Juanita Boyonas Gallman-Garton (born September 27, 1992) is a Filipino-Australian beauty pageant titleholder who was the first Filipina to win the Miss Intercontinental pageant in 2018. Early life and education Karen Juanita Boyonas G ...
- beauty queen, Miss Intercontinental 2018, the first ever
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to win the title. Also won Binibining Pilipinas Intercontinental 2018.
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External links

* Philippine Standard Geographic Code
Municipality of Ubay, Bohol
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