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Dapa Poblacion is the port area and ''poblacion'' of the municipality of Dapa, Surigao del Norte, in the Philippines. It is located in the southwest area of Siargao Island. There is no political entity for Dapa Poblacion. Instead, the area is constituted of thirteen barangays. A barangay is the basic and lowest political entity in Filipino society. In some cases, barangays are villages and towns. The National Statistical Coordination Board, an agency of the Philippine government, lists three urban barangays and nine rural barangays of the municipality of Dapa that are where the poblacion is located. These are Barangays 1 through 13. Their total population (as of August 1, 2007), was 9,162 persons. The population of the entire municipality was 22,184 people.〔National Statistical Coordination Board website, http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc ; Greg Bloom, Michael Grosberg, Virginia Jealous and Piers Kelly, ''Lonely Planet: Philippines'' (Footscray, Australia: Lonely Planet, May 2009), 10th ed., p.377.〕 To surfers, Dapa is an important stop on their way to the surfing areas around Cloud Nine and General Luna. Also, a number of tourists pass through Dapa to visit swimming areas and to participate in deep-sea fishing. This said, Siargao Island is not a trussed up tourist spot. Very little has been done to accommodate tourists, as most surfers are used to making do with very little available. Dapa and the Siargao Island Airport are the only entry points to reach the surfing, swimming and deep-sea fishing areas. As the ticket fees for flying are rather steep, most people reach the island through Dapa. A ferry comes from Surigao City, on the northeastern tip of Mindanao, twice a day, landing at the port at Dapa. The return ferry also leaves Dapa twice a day.〔Bloom, Grosberg, Jealous and Kelly, pp. 377-8; William C. Pollard, Jr., interview with Jack L. Ferreras, Dapa township, Philippines, October 27, 2010.〕 ==Origins of Dapa== In the 1800s, when the Philippines was still under Spanish rule, Moro pirates occasionally raided the coastal villages of Siargao Island. They left behind death and destruction. Often villagers were captured and forced into slavery. Along the south coast of the island, villagers sought refuge in the place that is now Dapa. The area was heavily wooded and tall mangrove formations, extending into the coastal waters, protected the area. At the north end of the modern poblacion is a tall hill, where the refugees could see kilometers into the distance. From their vantage point the refugees could see pirates coming and had time to hide. The refugees usually lay prone on the ground, called hapa in the native tongue. The name Dapa is a corrupted usage of "hapa." The new inhabitants of the refugee village adapted the name "Dapa" to remind them of the Moro raids. Thus Dapa became a permanent settlement.〔Surigaoislands.com website, http://surigaoislands.com/dapa_history.html .〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dapa Poblacion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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