Sindangan

Sindangan is a first class sub-urbanized municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. According to the, it has a population of people.It is the fastest growing municipality in the province and the second most populous after the provincial capitol, Dipolog City and ranked third as the most populous town in the Zamboanga Peninsula. In this connection, there are plans to change the status of Sindangan from a municipality to a city, since the growth of its economy is enough for its conversion to become a city.Nevertheless, the two versions speak of the source of livelihood of its population - agriculture and fishery.During the American colonial years, Sindangan was a municipal district of Katipunan, a town 70 kilometers north of Sindangan.Since gaining corporate entity, the local chief executives of the municipality initiated several developments which made Sindangan what it is today.EtymologyAs to how Sindangan got its name, several stories have been told. The first version narrates that a native fisherman carrying a basket full of fish was on his way home met a Guardia Civil, military guards during the Spanish regime, who asked this question, "Que es el nombre de este lugar, amigo?" And the Subanon fisherman who did not understand the Spanish language answered "indangan", believing he asked on the kind of fish he caught. The stranger heard this as "Sindangan", thinking that was the exact answer to his inquiry to the fisherman about the name of the fish. From then on, the natives used Sindangan to name the place until it became into a municipality on 1936.