Everything about Ternate Cavite totally explained
The
Municipality of Ternate (
Filipino:
Bayan ng Ternate) is a fourth class
municipality in the
province of
Cavite,
Philippines. According to the
2007 census, it has a population of 20,457 people.
Barangays
Ternate is politically subdivided into 10
barangays (3 urban and 7 rural).
- Poblacion I (Barangay I)
- Poblacion II (Barangay II)
- Bucana
- Poblacion III (Barangay III)
- San Jose
- San Juan I
- Sapang I
- Poblacion I A
- San Juan II
- Sapang II
History
The Merdicas/Mardicas were a tribe of
Malays of
Ternate in the
Moluccas which was a small Spanish colony. Before this it was a Portuguese colony. Mardicas, meant "People of the Sea". There were originally seven families, whose family names were Nino Franco, De Leon, Ramos, De la Cruz, Esteubar, Pereira, and Nigoza. In
1574, the merdicas volunteered to come to
Cavite to support the Spanish against the threat of invasion of the Chinese pirate,
Limahong. The invasion didn't occur but the community of Merdicas settled in a place, which at first was named "Gilolo" after a tree similar to theirs in the Moluccas. Then it was changed to "Barra de Maragondon" at a sandbar at the mouth of the Maragondon River. Today, the place is called Ternate and the community of Merdicas continued to use "broken Spanish" which evolved into the full-fedged Philippine Spanish creole called
Ternateño or Ternateño
Chavacano.
In
1663, some Merdicas were ordered by the Governor General to establish themselves in
Bagumbayan (now
Ermita) and protect Manila. About 200 of them fought against Moro pirates.
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