Bacoor is a component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines, about 15 kilometers southwest of Manila on the southeastern shore of Manila Bay, and it is the gateway from Cavite to Metro Manila. It covers about 52.4 square kilometers, mostly flat former farmland, with some coastal barangays below sea level, and the Zapote River separates it from Las Piñas. The name first belonged to Bacoor Bay, which separates the Cavite peninsula from the mainland. Bacoor was one of the flashpoints of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872, in which its parish priest Fr. Mariano Gómez, one of the GOMBURZA trio, was implicated and executed, and it was among the first Cavite towns to rise in the 1896 revolution against Spain. It has 47 barangays, a tropical savanna climate bordering on tropical monsoon, and 661,381 residents in the 2024 census.
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1. Bacoor (Wikipedia)
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it has a population of 661,381 people
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with an area of 52.4 square kilometers
Climate
Bacoor features a tropical savanna climate that borders on a tropical monsoon climate
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on the southeastern shore of Manila Bay
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component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines
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component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines
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component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines
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