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Formerly called Kabayawa by the Manobo natives, Carmen got its present name from the miraculous image of the Virgin of Mount Carmel, believed to have been instrumental in killing the leader of the bandits who used to inhabit the place. A Spanish soldier named Juan Cardoniga was supposed to have fired his rifle at the leader of the outlaws who possessed an amulet of some sort. Since his rifle did not work, Cardoniga got the image of the virgen from his necklace and placed it inside the hole of the barrel, after which he succeeded in firing the rifle and in killing the outlaw chief. It was Father Sarturnino Urios, the famous Jesuit priest of Agusan who suggested that the name Kabayawa be formally changed to Carmen in honor of the sacred image. On July 1, 1949, barrio Carmen became a municipality by virtue of the provisions of the Republic Act No. 380 sponsored in the Philippine Congress by the late Congressman Marcos M. Calo. The municipality of Carmen is the first town of Agusan del Norte strategically located in the Western Agusan Corridor. It is bounded on the north by the Butuan Bay, on the South by the municipality of Buenavista, on the east by the municipality of Nasipit and on the west by the province of Misamis Oriental.
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Buenavista Cabadbaran Carmen Jabonga Kitcharao Las Nieves Magallanes Nasipit RT Romualdez Santiago Tubay |