Bacoor
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About Bacoor
Bacoor, officially the City of Bacoor, is a component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 661,381 people., making it the 15th most populous city in the Philippines and the second largest city in the province of Cavite after Dasmariñas.
The name of Bacoor is transcribed in old sources variously as "Bacoor", "Bacor", "Bakur", etc. It was originally the name of the Bacoor Bay which separates the Cavite peninsula from the mainland. The name is believed to be originally from the Philippine Negrito languages, meaning "circle", referring to the shape of the bay.
Another possible origin of the name of Bacoor is from Tagalog bakood (also bakulod, bakoor, or bakuwod, etc.) for "highlands" or "plateau" (cf. Bacolor and Bacolod).
The 1818 Spanish census showed the area had 1,729 native families and 19 Spanish-Filipino families.
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 the secularization of priesthood in the Philippines...
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