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Malita, Davao Occidental
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Malita is a first class municipality that serves as the capital of the newly established province of Davao Occidental in the Philippines. According to the census of 2010, Malita has a population of 109,568 people in an area of .〔〔 Malita is known for various cultural arts and heritage of its people and tribes.
==Etymology==
According to folk etymology, the name "Malita" is derived from the Spanish word "''maleta''" which means suitcase. It is said that purportedly Don Mariano Peralta, a retired veteran of the Spanish–American War who ventured to the place, decided to live on the vast, fertile plain across the river. One day while bodily fording the deep and swift river with his suitcase and other belongings in hand, the force of the current overwhelmed his perilous balance and got swept by the water consequently losing his grip on the suitcase. His frantic shouts of "''maleta, maleta''" attracted the attention of the bathing natives who after realizing the situation promptly responded and retrieved the vanishing suitcase. Hardly forgetting the shouts of Peralta, the natives later thought the word referred to the land he intended to settle as Malita. How it came to its present spelling and usage maybe attributed to the natives’ prevalent use of long 'e' sound for the vowels 'i' and 'e'.
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