Bacoor

Bacoor City

Lungsod ng Bacoor

(From top, left to right) Aerial view of Bacoor showing Aguinaldo Highway and Bacoor Boulevard, mussels or tahong, a staple product of the city, the New Bacoor City Hall, aerial view of Bacoor, SM City Bacoor

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Nickname(s):
Cavite's Gateway to the Metropolis
Marching Band Capital of the Philippines
City of Transformation

Map of Cavite showing the location of Bacoor

Bacoor City

Location within the Philippines

Coordinates: 14°27′N 120°57′E / 14.45°N 120.95°ECoordinates: 14°27′N 120°57′E / 14.45°N 120.95°E

Country

Philippines

Region

CALABARZON (Region IV-A)

Province

Cavite

Congr. districts

Lone District of Bacoor

Incorporated

September 28, 1671

Cityhood

June 23, 2012

Barangays

Government

• Type

Mayor–council

• Mayor

Lani Mercado
(Lakas-Magdalo)

• Vice Mayor

Catherine Evaristo
(Lakas-Magdalo)

• Representative

Strike Revilla
(Lakas)

• City Council

Councilors

Area

• Total

46.17 km² (17.83 sq mi)

Elevation

4 m (13 ft)

Population (2015 census)

• Total

600,609

• Density

13,000/km² (34,000/sq mi)

Time zone

PST (UTC+8)

ZIP code

4102

IDD : area code

+63 (0)46

Website

www.bacoor.gov.ph

Bacoor, officially the City of Bacoor (Filipino: Lungsod ng Bacoor), is a first-class urban component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is a lone congressional district of Cavite and is the province's gateway to Metro Manila. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 600,609 people.

Some accounts indicate that the city of Bacoor, also named Bakood or Bakoor, was founded as pueblo or town in 1671. When Spanish troops first arrived in Bacoor, they met some local inhabitants in the process of building a bamboo fence (bakod in Filipino) around a house. The Spaniards asked the men what the name of the village was but because of the difficulties in understanding each other, the local inhabitants thought that the Spaniards were asking what they were building. The men answered "bakood". The Spaniards pronounced it as "bacoor" which soon became the town's name.

Bacoor was one of the flashpoints of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872. Bacoor's parish priest at that time, Fr. Mariano Gómez, was one of the GOMBURZA trio implicated in the mutiny for advocating secularization of priesthood in the Philippines. He and the rest of GOMBURZA were executed at Bagumbayan in 1872. The death of the GOMBURZA served as the inspiration for Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo, which in turn influenced the ignition of the Philippine Revolution.

During the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896, Bacoor was one of the first towns in Cavite to rise up. A Katipunan chapter, codenamed Gargano, led by Gil Ignacio from barrio Banalo, started the hostilities in Bacoor on 2 September 1896, three days after the revolution began.

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