The Mandaue City Today

Let's take a look on a brief BACKGROUND and HISTORY of my municipality.

The City of MANDAUE

I. Geographic Profile

Mandaue, officially the City of Mandaue (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Mandaue, Filipino: Lungsod ng Mandaue) and often referred to as Mandaue City, is a city in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. It is one of the three highly urbanized cities on the island and forms a part of the Cebu Metropolitan Area. Mandaue City is located on the middle eastern coastal region of Cebu, bordering to its right-side are Mactan Island where Lapu-Lapu City is located. Mandaue is connected to Mactan Island via two bridges which includes the Mactan-Cebu Bridge and Marcelo Fernan Bridge. And is bounded south and the west by the Provincial Capital, Cebu City and north by Consolacion which is linked with Cansaga Bay Bridge. The city has an area of 2,518 hectares (6,220 acres) with a total population of 331,320 people as of the 2010 census.

II. Government and Socio-Political Profile

Province:...............................................................Cebu Province

Region:.................................................Region 7, Central Visayas

District:..............................................6th District of Cebu Province

Zip code:..............................................................................6014

Income Class:..........................1st Class (Highly Urbanized City)

No. of Barangays:.....................................................27 Barangays

Date Founded:.......................................................................1571

Date Incorporated as a Town:.................................................1599

Date Declared as Municipality:.................................................1899

Date Created as a Charter City:..............................August 30, 1969

Date Classified as Highly Urbanized City:.............February 15, 1991

Government Type:.........................................City Legislative Council

The City Mayor

Cortes is the 13th child of the former mayor of Mandaue Demetrio Cortes Sr . and Celestina Alimpangog Cabungcal. He is of Filipino, Spanish and Chinese ancestry. He was born and raised in Centro, Mandaue. Cortes attended St. Joseph's Academy for Grade school in 1972-78 and in St Louis high school on 1978-82 both in Mandaue. He graduated from Visayas State University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Husbandry. He married Sarah Walker-Cortes, with whom he has two children, Dmitri and Mikyla.

Mandaue Presidencia

The Mandaue City Hall, commonly referred to as Mandaue Presidencia, is a Neo-Grec style building that serves as the seat of government for the city of Mandaue in Cebu, Philippines. The building found in the heart of the city was first used as the office of Mandaue's El Presidente or mayor since the Commonwealth Era.

The Mandaue City Seal

The Official Seal of Mandaue was updated in 1999 to reflect the contemporary vision and challenges of the highly urbanized locality. While retaining the Bantayan saHari and the gear, new elements were added such as the glob, the Marcelo Fernan Bridge, and the 27 stars representing the Barangays of the City.

CHANGES

Nothing in this world is permanent except change. Changes happened everytime. I'm from Mandaue City, I've been living here since I was in my mother's womb. I have always admire this municipality. But now given the chance to say what I've observed in this municipality where I live. I will tell everything that I've observed. In the previous years of my life I'm not an observant, I didn't care whats happening in my municipality but now I learned how to observe.

Lets go to the main point. Here are the changes I've observed.