Geographic Profile

The City of Panabo is the gateway to Davao Province in Mindanao. It lies between latitude of 125 degrees, 3 minutes, 32 seconds, to 125 degrees to 44 minutes North and longitude of 7 degrees, 14 minutes, to 7 degrees, 23 minutes East. It is bounded on the Northeast and Northwest by the Municipality of Carmen, on the Southwest by Davao Gulf and on the West by Davao City. The city proper is located along Daang Maharlika (Pan-Philippines Highways). It is accessible by land transportation and other vehicles plying the Davao-Butuan and Cagayan routes. It is thirty-two (32) kilometers away from Davao City and twenty-eight (28) kilometers from Tagum City. It takes a 45 minutes drive to Davao City from this city and 30 minutes drive to Tagum City.

LAND AREA
Panabo has a total land area of 25,123 hectares, which is approximately 7% of the total land area Davao Province. At the present population growth rate of the City, there is an urgent need to address this huge problem before its too late.

Drainage and Sewerage System
These facilities are soon to be installed and part of the World Bank Loan under the Water District Development Program to the tune of P60M package.

Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
Both the public and private cemeteries in this City are almost occupied. Therefore there is a need to expand this facility by way of land acquisition for expansion as well as adopting a new cemetery site development plan.

City Infrastructure Profile

Power

The City is energized by the Davao Light and Power Company (DLPC) ensuring that electricity runs uninterrupted twenty-four (24) hours a day.

Transportation

The city is accessible by any means of land transportation. Motorcycles or tricycles are used within the poblacion while jeepneys are plying to rural barangays. It has four (4) types of roads, namely: national, provincial, municipal and barangay for a total of approximately 447.068 kilometers. Most of the municipal road in the poblacion are concrete while the rest are either asphalt or well-paved road.

Communication

Presently, two big telephone companies are serving the city with highly sophisticated equipment, namely: Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) and the Philippine communication (PHILCOM). It has also cellsites for SMART, GLOBE, ISLACOM and EXTELCOM. Aside from having a municipal post office, it has BUTEL, RCPI AND PT & T for telegraphic services, LBC Air Cargo, Aboitez Air and JRS Air Cargo for airfreight services. The advent of communication satellites afforded a more enjoyable TV viewing of programs locally and internationally.

Water System
Panabo Water District distributes domestic water requisites of some poblacion households only.

Wharf
The wharves at Brgy. San Pedro can accommodate four (4) international cargo vessels at a time and is so built to suit an inter-island port for passenger vessels.

Economic Profile

Agricultural
The City's prime agricultural lands constitutes 78.78% of the total land area that are planted to different crops of which 46.48 percent is planted to banana while 25.26 percent is planted to coconut. The remaining area is planted with diversified crops such as corn, orchard/vegetables, rice and ramie.

Livestock & Poultry
About 3,162.09 hectares is utilized for pasture land.Livestock and poultry include chicken, swine, cattle, goat, carabao and ducks.

Fishery
Fishes cultured in brackish water are bangus, catfish (heto) and tilapia.