Pagadían

"Pagadían es una ciudad de primera clase, capital de la provincia de Zamboanga del Sur en Filipinas. Según el censo de 2007, cuenta con una población de 197.597 habitantes en 34.027 hogares. Está situada al nordeste de la región. Es la puerta de entrada a Zamboanga del Sur. Tiene una superficie de 331.6 kilómetros cuadrados, y está dividida en 54 barangays."

"Pagadian, officially the City of Pagadian (Filipino: Lungsod ng Pagadian), is located in Mindanao, Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Zamboanga del Sur and the regional center of Zamboanga Peninsula. Pagadian City is the second largest city in the region, after the independent city of Zamboanga. With its beginnings as a stop-over for traders who ply the road between the old Spanish fort-town of Zamboanga on the southwestern tip of the Zamboanga peninsula and other bigger towns to the north of the old Zamboanga Province and apart from its sheltered bay and good fishing grounds, it was not a place where anyone imagined that a city would be founded on it as it is situated on steeply rolling terrain. In the course of its local history, waves of different kinds of people came to stay and eventually called among themselves "Pagadianons." The iconic symbol of Pagadian is its uniquely designed tricycle built to adopt to the city's hilly terrain. It is the only place in the Philippines with a public transport inclined at about 25-40° angle."