Davao Region Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region of the Philippines
About Davao Region
"Davao" is somewhat ambiguous, and can either meanDavao City, or the region itself, also a former province that has been split further into the five provinces that compose the region today. The first inhabitants in the present region are theLumad, one of the original inhabitants of Mindanao until the colonial era. The region's name derives from the word for "fire" by one of the various tribes that inhabited the province. The region is said to be the first part of the Philippines that have been in contact with Europeans, starting in the early 1500s. Francis Xavier is said to have been converted some of the natives long before the Spanish colonizers came, but there are no historical records saying so. The region remained outside colonial control until the Spaniards came in 1837. Spanish cont
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