Digos City is a 2nd class city in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines. It is the affluent suburban city in the province of Davao del Sur, Philippines. The city strategically lies on the eastern shores of Davao Gulf and southern foothills of Mt. Apo in the island of Mindanao. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 145,514 people in 26,306 households. Digos City is now a part of (Metropolitan Davao) Metro Davao. In 2000, Digos was converted into a city.
In the early days, Digos was a watercourse, a meeting place of inhabitants belonging to the Austronesians settled along the southern foothills of Mt. Apo. The Digos River meets the Davao Gulf and it is ideal for fishing and bathing.
During the Spanish Era, a group of natives carrying bows and arrows were approached by some Spaniards traversing the very fertile tracks of land in Davao. One Lopez Jaena Pacheco, a conquistador during the administration of Governor Claveria serving as the head of the group, inquired about the name of the place from the barefooted natives. Believing that the Spaniards were asking where they were bound to, the natives answered “Padigus”, which means “to take a bathe”. Since then the place was identified as Digos.
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